Welcome to ROUNDS!

This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.

 

The ROUNDS archive is here.

 

NEWS

Physician Diversity Program teams OU-COM with Ohio Health

A new partnership between OhioHealth and the Ohio University College
of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) provides minority medical students early and sustained exposure to professional practices within the OhioHealth system.

The Physician Diversity Scholars Program matches first-year Hispanic and African-American students with OhioHealth physicians from similar backgrounds in a series of mentoring activities intended to serve as a gateway to careers with OhioHealth.

The four-year program requires at least three shadowing, community service or professional organization events per semester during the first two years of medical school, followed by a more customized relationship, as led by the mentors, during third- and fourth-year clinical rotations, when students must select at least three OhioHealth rotations.

www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/stories/OhioHealthMinority/index.htm

 

Graduate Profile:  Jaime Rehmann, D.O. (’09)

Jaime Rehmann considers the world her hometown.
For most of Rehmann’s life, her family traveled the world to volunteer in underprivileged communities. “I grew up abroad,” she says. “I kind of consider myself a nomad.”

An international experience helped her choose her ob/gyn specialty, she says. “In college I went to Mexico over spring break to do service. A pregnant woman came into the office of the doctor I worked with. He had me put my hands on her belly and showed me how to feel for the position of the baby,” Rehmann says. “Feeling the baby move under my hands—it just blew me away.”

Rehmann deferred OU-COM enrollment a year to travel to Ecuador, where among other things, she assisted on surgeries with Doctors Without Borders and researched non-pharmaceutical family-planning techniques. “I am finishing a study about family planning among Ecuadorian women. I did a survey of their current methods and their attitudes toward natural family planning.”

Read more about our recent graduate at

www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/stories/Rehmann/index.htm

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Office of Faculty Development hosts lecture

Brian Clark, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuromuscular biology and one of the highest student-rated lecturers at OU-COM, will speak at a Faculty Professional Development Session on “Best Practices for the Philosophy, Preparation and Process for Your Presentations. The noon lecture is a bring your own brown bag. RSVP to Nell Ann Kittle at kittlen@ohio.edu if you plan to attend.

 

Dunk Norman J. Gevitz, Ph.D.!

Here’s a rare opportunity: take a chance at dunking Dr. Gevitz, professor of social medicine, and help a great cause at the same time.

Wednesday, July 22, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., a fundraiser will be held on the West Green near Irvine hall to benefit  the Shannon Berry, D.O. (’98) Endowed Scholarship. The event features Gevitz in a dunk tank. Two balls will cost $5, five balls $10, and for just $100, one can push the lever for a sure dunk. Picnic style concessions will be sold by OU-COM Social Activities.

Donations also can be made to The Ohio University University Foundation: Shannon Berry, D.O. (’98) Scholarship.

 

CALENDAR

CORE Welcome Dinner

            This event is by invitation only, and RSVP is requested to Carol Blue by e-mail at blue@ohio.edu or by telephone at 740-593-2178.

·        Event: Thursday, July 16, 6 p.m., Baker University Center

 

CORE Chief Resident Workshop

·        Workshop: Friday, July 17, 2 p.m., McConnell Heart and Health Institute, Columbus

·        To register, call or e-mail Deb Turpening at the Pickerington Center at 614-367-9371 or turpenid@ohio.edu.

 

Summer Scholars presentations and closing reception

            The Summer Scholars program will hold its case-based learning presentations, closing reception and luncheon.

·        Event: Friday, July 17, noon—3 p.m., Grosvenor West 111

 

Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar: Homeopathy

The seminar features Richa Eland, LSW, RS Hom (NA), CCH, who will present “Homeopathy: What it is, when to refer and what to expect.”

            Event: Monday, July 20, noon, O’Bleness Health System medical education classroom 014, and by videoconference at Grosvenor West 029 and various OU-COM CORE sites.

 

SURF closing presentations

            The conclusion of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program will feature lunch presentations by SURF fellows.

·        Event: Monday, July 27, noon to 3 p.m., Grosvenor and Irvine Halls

 

Convocation/White Coat Ceremony

            Please join us to welcome the Class of 2013 at the annual Convocation and White Coat Ceremony.

·        Event: Saturday, Aug. 15, 2 p.m., Memorial Auditorium (NOTE NEW TIME)

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Staff changes

Please welcome Brooke Davis, Ph.D., research grants developer in the Office of Research and Grants. Starting July 20, you can reach Dr. Davis in Grosvenor Hall 245 or 593-2304. Last week’s ROUNDS listed the incorrect start date for Dr. Davis.

 

Faculty Development Tidbit:

The Three-Person Teach

The three-person teach refers to a teaching strategy in which the teacher explains something to the class and then the students work in pairs to teach that same content to each other.  

For example the instructor might explain the process of mitosis to the class. The instructor then asks the students to pair up and explain/teach mitosis to each other. The instruction might be given that each explanation should go no more than 2 minutes. It is well know that we learn something better by teaching it to someone else, thus the phrase "To teach is to learn twice."   

As a student explains something to another student he often discovers he doesn't understand something as well as he thought.  

Thus a form of self -assessment has taken place. Self-assessment is a skill critical to all of our medical students.  

Additionally as a student listens to her peer she may hear an explanation that is easier to understand than the one given by the teacher.  

In addition to all of these good things, the three-person teach also forces learning upward on Bloom's Taxonomy from verbal learning (memorization) to comprehension, because to explain something in a meaningful way, we must comprehend it.

(See: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html for more detail on Bloom’s Taxonomy).

Find more “Teaching Tips” at your OU-COM & CORE faculty development Web resources: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or 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 with Steve Davis, Ph.D.; Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D.; and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.)

 

 

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 communications, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.