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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
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NEWS
Surgeon organizations honor two from OU-COM
Both an administrator and a faculty member from OU-COM received national recognition this weekend.
Keith Watson, D.O., FACOS, received the 2009 Distinguished Osteopathic Surgeon award from the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons (ACOS) at the organization’s Annual Clinical Assembly held in Chicago Saturday, Oct. 31. Watson is associate dean for graduate medical education and associate professor of surgery at OU-COM.
Sunday, Nov. 1, the national Student Osteopathic Surgical Association named David Drozek, D.O. (’83), as Surgery Mentor of the Year. Drozek is an assistant professor of specialty medicine at OU-COM.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Please welcome Connie McCarroll, D.O., associate professor of pediatrics. As of Monday, Nov.16, you can reach McCarroll in Grosvenor West 060 or at 593.2235.
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts are being accepted for the Ohio Osteopathic Association (OOA) and CORE 2010 Research Poster Exhibition and Competition at the spring OOA Annual Convention, to be held at the Hilton Columbus at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Students, interns, residents, faculty members, medical administrators and practicing physicians may participate in the poster exhibition. Please submit 250-word abstracts on clinical/biomedical research, case reports, and health policy or educational issues.
The poster exhibition Saturday, May 1, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., will be open to all convention participants. Presenters must stand by their posters from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
The poster competition is restricted to students, interns and residents presenting clinical or biomedical research and case reports. In each category, $1,000 will be awarded for 1st prize and $500 for 2nd prize. Judging will take place Saturday, May 1, at 9 a.m.
Submit Abstracts to April Vale at valea@ohio.edu.
OU-COM web site sports new, integrated calendar
We can now better coordinate college events using a new, integrated web calendar. The calendar link is under the “About OU-COM” pull-down menu.
This link previously led to several separate calendars. Now, through the efforts of Tim Creamer, multimedia developer, most of these calendars have been consolidated.
Event categories are color-coded to differentiate among:
· Alumni affairs
· Faculty development
· Careers in Medicine
· Diversity
· All-college events
· Student events
You can choose to view only specific categories by clicking on the small, downward arrow at the upper-right-hand corner of the calendar.
The page still provides links to additional calendars, including: years one and two academics, distance learning, AHEC/continuing education, Community Health Programs, Ohio University, CORE, and meeting schedules.
Find OU-COM on Facebook
Learn about the latest news and happenings at OU-COM by becoming a fan of the OU-COM Facebook page. If you’re not on Facebook, you can still access our page from the front door of the college’s web site (click on the blue and white “F” under the “Quick Links” section), or go to www.facebook.com/OUCOM.
Also, OU-COM just launched a YouTube page, featuring our new admissions video. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/oucomedicine.
CALENDAR
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar
Edward Potkanowicz, Ph.D., will present “The right tool for the job: Appropriate exercises for the older adult.”
· Presentation: Monday, Nov. 2, noon, O’Bleness Medical Education Conference room 014, or Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference
International Programs Fair
Come talk to representatives from the following programs:
You can also learn about funding for medical education abroad and about arranging your own international clinical rotation during your third or fourth year.
Rural Senior Outreach
The Department of Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology in conjunction with OU-COM’s Community Health Programs will offer free health screenings, information and chair massages during a rural senior outreach event, the first of the 2009-2010 academic year.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Effective lectures end with a conclusion in three parts:
1. Summary of important points
2. Re-motivation: Why what they’ve learned is important
3. Closure for the lesson
You should plan two to five minutes for the conclusion; failure to plan is a plan to fail. Don’t miss this important opportunity to reinforce key points and excite the neurons on the importance of your topic. Give closure, ask for final questions and offer help if needed.
For help in remembering and planning a good introduction, see our quick lesson planning template at: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/Quick%20lesson%20plan%20counter.htm.
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 ROUNDS. If you have questions, suggestions or corrections, please contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.