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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
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NEWS
COCA lauds OU-COM efforts for class size increase
OU-COM was described as “a model for how to effectively conduct a class size increase” during a March 12-13 site visit from the AOA Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA).
This week’s visit follows the full COCA inspection a year and a half ago, during which OU-COM received four commendations. This visit focused on OU-COM’s planned class size increase, looking specifically at the college’s compliance with required standards for such an increase.
The inspectors announced that OU-COM had met all three standards for class size increases, and they commended the college on its thorough implementation of enrollment growth.
Brannan elected to International Academy for Quality
Grace Brannan, Ph.D., research director for the CORE, was elected associate member of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ), a prestigious global organization dedicated to examining and promoting practices of achieving quality at individual, organizational and international levels.
Brannan refers to her membership as a great honor. “This affiliation helps raise the profile of the CORE and OU-COM,” she said.
Two doctors in one
Since enrolling at OU-COM, Amy Zidron, Ph.D., OMS III, has studied the health of orphans in Kenya and childhood obesity in Appalachia. Her days as a family physician lie ahead of her, but there’s one thing that separates her from most medical students: a dual-degree.
OU-COM’s Dual Degree Program allowed Zidron to put physician training on hold for three years while she completed her doctoral degree. When she finishes her clinical rotations in the spring of 2010, Zidron will become one of just five OU-COM graduates to complete the program.
A paper based on her doctoral research, “Does being an orphan decrease the nutritional status of Luo children?” was recently accepted for publication in the American Journal of Human Biology.
OU-COM Careers in Medicine web site debuts
The Office of Student Affairs recently launched the Careers in Medicine program to assist medical students in choosing their medical specialty. As part of the program, the office created a web site that guides medical students through a structural process of career planning, including learning about various specialties.
(A story about the Careers in Medicine program will be posted on the OU-COM home page later this week.)
CORE launches electronic newsletters
The Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education announces a new electronic publication, the COREterly Newsletter, to report CORE news, announcements and events.
The CORE, with OU-COM’s Office of Communication, is publishing two versions of the newsletter: one for students, residents, fellows and interns; and a second one for faculty and hospital medical education professionals. Both versions will be published four times a year (hence the name, suggested by one of our CORE residents).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ROUNDS takes a break
Due to spring break, ROUNDS will not be published next Monday, March 23. ROUNDS will return to your e-mail inbox on Monday, March 30.
OOA convention exhibition – March 20 DEADLINE
The OOA and the CORE will accept abstracts for the 2009 Research Poster Exhibition and Competition, to be held at the 111th OOA Convention, through Friday, March 20.
The exhibition is open to all convention participants. Exhibition posters can present clinical/biomedical research, case reports and health policy or educational issues.
The competition will be restricted to student, intern and resident projects; these will be restricted to clinical and/or biomedical research and case reports.
Student Expo Registration – March 20 DEADLINE
Ohio University students only have until this Friday, March 20, to register for the 2009 Student Research and Creative Activity Expo on May 14.
The annual university event showcases more than 500 research, scholarship and creative activity presentations from undergraduate, graduate and medical students and postdoctoral fellows. For each session (discipline), $300 prizes will be awarded.
CALENDAR
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology lecture CANCELLED
Due to the unavailability of a speaker, today’s Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology series lecture is cancelled.
The next lecture, on Alzheimer’s disease, will take place April 6, featuring speaker Melissa Gandee, LSW.
Diabetes Research Initiative Spring Retreat
A Diabetes Research Initiative spring retreat will take place Friday, April 3.
Keynote speaker, Dr. Alan Jacoboson, professor of psychiatry with the Harvard Medical School Joslin Diabetes Center, will present "Diabetes and the brain: Untangling a curious and complex relationship,” followed by a poster session and reception featuring diabetes research projects at Ohio University.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Active learning strategy #3: Learning activities & presentations provide options for learning. Use on a limited basis (one to three times a quarter), let students select a learning plan and grade with a rubric.
· Internet: Students conduct internet searches for a topic, compare that information to coursework and present to the class.
· Art: Students create posters, brochures, etc., to inform or teach others about specific concepts and skills.
· Exhibit: Students create a course-related bulletin exhibit for college display.
· News: Students compile a notebook with at least eight news articles about a course-related topic, summarizing each article and its significance to the course.
· Interview or survey: Student write questions on a course-related topic, conduct interviews or surveys, record answers and present results.
· Skits or videos: Students create and present short skits or videos based on key concepts or strategies presented in class.
· Game or game show: Students create board game or game show to play in class to practice and reinforce key concepts and skills.
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.)
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
Athens Messenger (3-12-09)
“First-year med students commit to armed forces”
www.athensmessenger.com/articles/2009/03/12/ohio_university/doc49b90342217cd561265313.txt
(The Messenger requires a subscription and registration to view articles.)
Outlook (3-10-09)
“College sees boom in military recruits”
Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, W.Va.) (3-7-09)
“Breast, cervical cancer screenings offered in Ironton”
www.herald-dispatch.com/news/ohio/x1898609986/Band-Boosters-to-sponsor-dress-sale
Please send your news/announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu each week by WEDNESDAY at 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.