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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
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NEWS
State cuts college budget again
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland announced a second round of state budget cuts that will impact OU-COM.
The second round of cuts includes a 5.75 percent mid-year reduction to all state lines except the State Share of Instruction (SSI). For OU-COM, that amounts to about $309,000, in addition to the $268,000 reduction implemented in October.
The biggest impact of the cutbacks so far, according to Dean Jack Brose, D.O., and Kathy Trace, M.H.A., director of OU-COM Community Health Programs, could affect the college’s outreach to Southeastern Ohio.
“With our services, even if you reduce them a little bit, the impact is huge,” Trace told the Athens News, which featured the budget impact as the lead story in its monthly “Good Health” section today.
The story cited several examples of how beneficial the CHP efforts have had for residents of the region.
According to OUTLOOK, which ran an article on Dec. 23 about the most recent state budget cuts, the newest reductions for OU-COM include $18,621 for the Area Health Education Center (AHEC); $66,708 for funding that encourages study in the areas of family practice, geriatric medicine and primary care; and $233,730 in subsidies for clinical teaching, in addition to other funding.
The Athens News story is available at
ANNOUNCEMENTS
UAAO auction needs donations
The Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy (UAAO) annual auction, sponsored by the UAAO and the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Club, seeks donations of auction items. Items donated in the past include OMM tables, motorcycle riding lessons, text books and baked goods.
RSAC accepting grant applications
The Research and Scholarly Affairs Committee (RSAC) is now accepting applications for its 2008-2009 grants, including:
All OU-COM Group I and Group II faculty are eligible for these awards, provided that they meet the requirements outlined in the 2008-09 RSAC guidelines (see http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/R&G/2008-09%20RSAC%20Grant%20General%20Info.pdf).
Call for poster presentations
The Osteopathic Clinical Research Committee of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians seeks research poster presentations for its annual convention and exhibition March 4-8 in Washington, D.C.
Prizes for original research posters for students and residents include: first place ($500), second place ($250) and third place ($100). For the second category, case reports, one first-place award will be presented for $100. Presenters must attend the poster presentation on March 5.
CALENDAR
Healthy Lifestyle Challenge begins Wednesday
The Winter Quarter Health Lifestyle Challenge kicks off Jan. 7. The person who accumulates the most points during the 10-week period will win a pot of cash. Registration costs $10. For information, contact Mike Yeager at 593-2523.
CORE residency program educational days scheduled
Both sessions are via videoconference.
Research Compliance hosts winter workshops
The Ohio University Office of Research Compliance will host a series of workshops next quarter on the topics of responsible conduct of research, conflict of interest and the use of human and animal subjects in research. Faculty members, graduate students and research staff are invited to attend.
Each session will be offered twice (February dates to follow).
· Conflict of interest
o Thursday, Jan. 15, 9-11 a.m.
· Navigating the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
o Tuesday, Jan. 20, 9-11 a.m.
· Navigating the Institutional Review Board
o Thursday, Jan. 22, 9-11 a.m.
· Responsible conduct of research
o Wednesday, Jan. 28, 9-11 a.m.
All workshops will be held in 102 Research and Technology Center. The sessions are open to the university community. No pre-registration is required.
For more, call 593.0664, e-mail compliance@ohio.edu or visit the Web at www.research.ohiou.edu/compliance.
Dance Marathon
So you think you can dance? Show your stuff at the Student National Medical Association’s Dance Marathon, open to all OU-COM faculty, staff and students.
· Friday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m. to 12 a.m., Baker Center Multipurpose Room
Multicultural Extravaganza
The Student National Medical Association invites all OU-COM faculty, staff and students to celebrate our diverse backgrounds, talents and cultural traditions.
· Wednesday, Feb. 18, noon to 1 p.m., Irvine Lecture Hall
2009 OOA Convention poster exhibition seeks abstracts
The Ohio Osteopathic Association and the CORE announce a call for abstracts for the 2009 Research Poster Exhibition and Competition, to be held June 20 at the 111th OOA Convention. Deadline for abstracts is March 20.
The poster exhibition is open to all convention participants. Exhibition posters can present clinical/biomedical research, case reports and health policy or educational issues.
The poster competition will be restricted to student, intern and resident projects; these will be restricted to clinical and/or biomedical research and case reports.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit – Zen and the art of teaching
These teaching tips are taken from Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds, a leading authority on presentation design and delivery.
From Chapter 4, “Crafting the Story”: Make your ideas stick by following this formula: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories (SUCCESS).
· Keep it simple.
· Look for the unexpected, using creative analogies or metaphors when possible.
· Use specific examples to drive home points.
· Stay relevant; bring everything back to the core message.
· Appeal to emotion; make them feel something.
· Tell stories; they bring ideas to life and are easier to remember.
· Brainstorm your topic first on paper to release creative juices.
Presentation Zen Web site: www.presentationzen.com
Find more “Teaching Tips” at your OUCOM & CORE faculty development Web resources: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or http://www.ohiocore.org/cf/index.htm.
If you have a great strategy that seems to always work, please send it to me, and I’ll include it in a future Faculty Development Tidbit.
(Tidbits courtesy of your office of faculty development: Steve Davis, Ph.D.,
Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D., and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.)
Fourth-year student research published
Utkarsh Acharya, OMS IV, wrote “Hemolysis and hyperhomocysteinemia caused by cobalamin deficiency: Three case reports and review of the literature,” which is published in preliminary form on the Web site of the Journal of Hematology and Oncology, 2008 1:2. The article can be viewed at http://www.jhoonline.org/content/1/1/26
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Athens News (1-5-09)
“OU medical school’s outreach program could be impacted by state cuts”
The Athens News (12-31-08)
“A New Year’s wish list, most of which is wishful thinking”
The Athens News (12-29-08)
“Budget cuts hit university outreach”
http://www.athensnews.com/news/campusnews/2008/dec/29/budget-cuts-hit-university-outreach/
Ocala.com (12-23-08)
www.ocala.com/article/20081223/ARTICLES/812231004/1/LIVING05?Title=_Self_giving__doctor_dies_at_53
Outlook (12-23-08)
“Cuts again largely spare higher education”
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/December/242.cfm
(Relates OU-COM cuts and quotes Dean Jack Brose, D.O., about halfway through)
Lancaster Eagle Gazette (12-22-08)
“Arizona doctor sues Ohio University medical school”
https://email.oucom.ohiou.edu/owa/
(A similar article originally written by the Columbus Dispatch and distributed by the Associated Press appeared in several other newspapers and television station websites in Ohio and Arizona. The Athens Messenger and The Athens News wrote their own versions of the story.)
The Post (12-18-08)
“Extending tuition freeze another year unlikely in face of further state budget cuts”
www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2008/12/18/26535/
(Reports on budget cuts of OU-COM, the Voinovich School and the university in general)
American Osteopathic Foundation Web site (Dec. 08 news content)
“AOF Educator of the Year Award”
http://www.aof-foundation.org/index.cfm?fa=grants.sincur&rid=358\
Inside OME (Dec./Jan. issue)
“OU-COM Professor Researching Aging AIDS Population”
www.aacom.org/resources/ome/2008-12/Pages/CampusRoundup.aspx
(Campus Roundup piece about research of Tim Heckman, Ph.D., professor of geriatric medicine and gerontology)
Please send your news/announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu each week by Wednesday, 3 p.m., for consideration in the following week’s ROUNDS. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.