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

 

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NEWS

Foundation awards scholarship to second-year student  

Edwin Jackson, OMS II, received a $5,000 scholarship from the Academy of Medicine Education Foundation. The scholarship was awarded April 24 at the annual meeting of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio. 

The Academy of Medicine Education Foundation (AMEF) awards scholarships each year to medical students who are or were residents of Cuyahoga, Summit, Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, Lorain or Portage counties in Ohio. 

Applicants must also possess leadership skills, value community service, demonstrate academic achievement, and attend medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, or OU-COM.   

 

OU-COM ladies raise funds at Komen Race for the Cure

OU-COM staff and students were among thousands recently participating in this year’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Columbus.

The OU-COM team, named Ladies for Ladies, garnered more than $1,000 in donations for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, an organization that supports OU-COM’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (BCCP), which provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings to uninsured and underinsured women in Appalachian Ohio counties.

“It’s important to give back to this organization, since it has provided our program with more than $540,000 to fund breast cancer screenings and treatment for women in Southeastern Ohio,” says Cindy Greenlee, nurse practitioner with the college’s Office of Community Health Programs (CHP).

Two mother-daughter pairs from OU-COM ran the race, including: CHP Director Kathy Trace with her daughter, Misty Montgomery; and Janice Smith, BCCP nurse coordinator and breast cancer survivor, with her daughter, Amy.

OU-COM was represented not only on the track, but also in the booths lining the road. Students manned a booth to share literature about CHP services at OU-COM.

 

OU-COM part of proposed Center of Excellence

OU-COM and the Edison Biotechnology Institute are included in one of three proposed Centers of Excellence for the University System of Ohio, Provost Kathy Krendl announced last week. The three proposed candidates include:

• Scripps College of Communication
• Energy and the Environment
• Health and Wellness

Health and Wellness includes more than 100 Ohio University faculty and staff members from the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Health and Human Services, Osteopathic Medicine, Engineering and the Edison Biotechnology Institute. The focus of this proposed Center of Excellence is facilitation of health and wellness through service to underserved populations and bench-to-bedside approaches to health care.

Total external funding for bench-to-bedside initiatives at Ohio University exceeds $22 million, while research in this area has born 114 invention disclosures, 62 patent applications and 29 patents. The societal aspect of the proposed center extends to economic development, education, communication and program/policy development at the regional, state, national and international levels.

·        For more, to go www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/May/630.cfm.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Three Grosvenor outside doors now require ID badges for access

Three outside doors in Grosvenor Hall will only open with ID badge swipes starting Wednesday, May 27. Faculty, staff, students and certain other employees will have to use their ID badges – either for OU-COM or Ohio University – to enter the building before and after hours and on weekends.

The three doors include:

• Grosvenor Hall ground-floor entrance near the vending lounge
• Grosvenor Hall first-floor entrance from the Convocation Center parking lot near the Tech Shop
• Grosvenor West first-floor entrance from Irvine Hall near the Learning Resources Center

These doors will no longer respond to door keys. If your ID badge does not work, contact Becky Vinson at 593.2538 or vinson@ohio.edu.

For questions, contact Beth Maxon, director of human resources and administrative services at 593.0768 or maxon@ohio.edu, or contact Dean Dupler, director facilities management, at 593.0443 or duplerd@ohio.edu.

 

Commencement hometown press releases!

            If you’re a graduating D.O. and want the world – or at least your hometown and alma mater – to know, you must fill out a “hometown release” form by FRIDAY, JUNE 5.

These forms are used by the Office of Communication to send press releases to newspapers in students’ hometowns, undergraduate alma maters and current towns or cities of residency. Print out the form, fill out the information and return it to the Office of Communication in person, or by mail or fax.

• To fill out the form, go to:  www.oucom.ohiou.edu/saffairs/Graduation/2009/2009graduation.htm.

 

 

CALENDAR

Conliffe retirement reception

OU-COM will host a retirement reception for Bobbi Conliffe, MLS, coordinator curriculum resources.

·        Event: Thursday, May 28, 2 to 4 p.m., Grosvenor West 111

 

Commencement 2009

            Join us in celebration of OU-COM’s newest Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine!

·        Event: Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m., Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: Audiovisual Aids

See/hear compatibility:  What the lecturer says and what the viewers see on the screen must complement each other. However, reading slides word-for-word is boring and ineffective. Instead, the lecturer should talk about what is on the screen, and supplement it with more information. 

Often a lecturer is finished with a slide and moves on to the next topic with the old slide still on the screen. This is poor see/hear compatibility. Use a blank slide or shut off/blank the projector.

Finally, talk to the audience, not the screen.

Tips from “There is No Gene For Good Teaching: A Handbook On Lecturing For Medical Teachers, Whitman, Ed.D., University of Utah School of Medicine.

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.)

 

Two receive Emeriti status

Two OU-COM faculty received Emeriti recognition on Thursday, May 21, from Ohio University President Roderick McDavis during a ceremony at the OU Inn. Receiving the designation were John Howell, Ph.D., associate professor of Biomedical Sciences and Robert Woodworth, D.O., M.P.H., associate professor of Social Medicine.

 

New hire

Please welcome Lauren Borovicka, Americorps/ComCorps program coordinator in Community Health Programs under Kathy Trace. Starting June 1, you can reach Lauren in Grosvenor Hall 064 or at 593.2293.

 

 

OU-COM IN THE NEWS

The Athens News (05-21-09)

“Americorps program provides health-care assistance; seeks full-, part-time employees”

www.athensnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27980:americorps-program-provides-health-care-assistance-seeks-full--part-time-employees&catid=1:local-news&Itemid=4

 

Columbus Dispatch (5-18-09)

“New chance at funding thrills Ohio scientists;

Stimulus measure to fund backlog of worthy projects”

www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/05/18/ResearchStim.ART_ART_05-18-09_A1_NJDT30V.html

 

 

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.