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

 

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NEWS

D.O. Day on the Hill overlaps ACOFP convention

The 2009 D.O. Day on the Hill, when osteopathic medical physicians and students travel to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress, will occur Friday, March 5—during the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians 46^th Annual Convention and Exhibition, also in D.C.

At least 43 OU-COM students plan to attend this year’s D.O. Day, along with Peter Bell, D.O., assistant dean of CORE administration.

Meanwhile, the ACOFP convention will be held Thursday, March 4, through Sunday, March 8 at the Gaylord National Resort in D.C. Although pre-registration is closed, registration can be conducted at the convention on-site.

At the ACOFP 2009 Convention, Jan D. Zieren, D.O., M.P.H., will be elected president of ACOFP.

 

William Burke, D.O. (’88) on new rules of medical etiquette

            In case you missed the most recent Professionalism Series lecture, by William Burke, D.O. (’88), below you can read about his thoughts on new challenges in professionalism for today’s physician.

Having graduated from OU-COM 20 years ago, Burke, program director for Doctors Hospital Family Practice residency program, noted key changes in standards of professional conduct in medicine.

• Read the story at: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/burke/index.htm.

 

Teaching compassion for the aging (OUM online exclusive)

Follow the link below to see images of OU-COM’s sensory changes lab—a web photo gallery to accompany the magazine’s geriatric medicine story, “Preparing for an aging boom.”

(This photo gallery is an online exclusive of Ohio University Medicine magazine. ROUNDS will begin periodically featuring OUM online stories and multimedia extras.)

• View the photo gallery at: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/oum/SensoryLab/compassion.htm.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Recent grant recipients

• Oliva Ojano-Sheehan, assistant director of faculty development, received a $9,936 grant from the Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital Foundation for the office’s Residency Directors Residency Administration Program.
• Kathy Trace, director of Community Health Programs, received both:
  1.  A $45,644 grant from the Athens County Tuberculosis Clinic Board for TB screenings, and
  2. A $9,100 CVS Caremark Settlement Grant to support medications for the CHP Free Clinic.
• Danny Smith, distance learning coordinator, received a $2,880 grant from the ADAMHS Board for Montgomery County to support the Ohio Behavioral Telehealth Network.

 

Classified Senate award

Rosemary Butcher, administrative coordinator in academic affairs, was honored as Ohio University’s Classified Employee of the Month for January.

 

Internship available

The application deadline for the 2010 Osteopathic Health Policy Intern (OHPI) Program in Washington, D.C., is March 1. For program and application information, go to: www.aacom.org/events/intern/Pages/default.aspx.

• Application deadline: Sunday, March 1

• For more, contact Susan Eads Role, AACOM director of government relations, at srole@aacom.org or 301-968-4152. 

 

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 at the 111th OOA Convention. Deadline for abstracts is Friday, 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.

• Exhibition and Competition: June 20, 111^th OOA Convention
• Abstracts due Friday, March 20
• For more, contact Michael Weiser, CORE research editor/grants writer, at 3-2322 or weiser@ohio.edu, or go to core.ev.net/research/OOA-CORE.htm.

 

Summer research fellowship available

            Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has announced its Summer Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research Fellowship, for medical students who will begin their second year in fall 2009.

            The fellowship times are flexible, lasting about nine weeks between June and August. Fellows work in the center’s Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, under the supervision of Charles Mehlman, D.O. (’89), M.P.H.

            At the end of the program, each fellow will have completed a manuscript for submission to an orthopaedic journal for publication. Fellows are paid $11/hour.

• To apply, send your CV to cassie.kirby@cchmc.org or call 513.803.6133.

 

 

CALENDAR

Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Series

“Fear of falling among seniors,” by Lisa Koch, Aud. D.

• Presentation: TODAY, March 2, noon, O’Bleness Medical Education Conference room 014, or Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference.

 

ORL-HNS Education Day

Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D., assistant director of faculty development, will present “Research presentation day: Mock oral and written exam,” at the next Education day for the Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery RPAC Education Day.

·        Event: Thursday, March 5, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., McConnell Heart Health Center, Columbus

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: Presentation Principles

“Tell them what you’re going to tell them; tell them; then tell them what you told them.” 

Presentation Format

1. Introduction	2. Body	3. Conclusion
Attention	Point one	Summary
Transition	Transition	Transition
Motivation	Point two	Re-motivation
Transition	Transition	Transition
Overview	Point three	Closure

 

·        Give the introduction and conclusion their due with motivational attention-grabbers and an overview or summary. (Why should they pay attention? What should they come away with?)

·        Plan effective transitions between points.

·        Provide at least one active learning strategy per point (e.g. audience response, drawing, think/pair/share, test question writing…). 

·        Practice three times before the delivery of new lesson.

·        Like the above chart, use a visual… a picture is worth a thousand words. 

·        See www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/Quick%20lesson%20plan%20counter.htm for a quick lesson planning template using this format.

·        Always remember: STUDENTS APPRECIATE ORGANIZATION AND CLARITY MOST!  

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

The Athens News (3-1-09)

“OU specialist appointed to diabetes/heart research chair”

(As of ROUNDS deadline, the article had yet been posted to the Athens News website.)

 

The News-Messenger (2-27-09)

“Mauric elected Memorial Hospital chief of medical staff”

http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20090227/UPDATES04/90227005

(Story about alumnus John Mauric, D.O. (’88))

 

 

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.