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

The ROUNDS archive is here http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/news/rounds/.

NEWS
CORE web site gets new look, additional features A refreshed CORE site, which launched during the last week of August, contains several new features and an improved front page. “The changes are a response to some of the needs and suggestions we’ve heard from several different groups,” said Karoline Lane, director of communication for OU-COM and CORE.
New to the site is a forum page where CORE faculty, staff, residents and students will be able to exchange comments, questions, and best practices. “The forums provide another opportunity for people to collaborate on ideas, problems and solutions,” said Pam Royston, administrative director of graduate medical education. The forums will go live within the next week or so, she said.
The site also now offers a video about the CORE that features students, faculty and administrators discussing the statewide consortium of osteopathic teaching hospitals.
“We received great suggestions, and we encourage feedback in response to these changes,” Lane said. “The forums, video and navigation changes are just a start. We’re looking forward to continually improving our web-based services and communications.”
To see the new web site design, go to www.ohiocore.org.
To watch the new video, go to www.ohiocore.org/sfr/video/index.htm.


ANNOUNCEMENTS
By any other name …
Two CORE member hospitals underwent name changes this summer. In June, Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital changed to Summa Western Reserve Hospital, and in late August, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center became Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center.

Help us help you
With the start of a new academic year, ROUNDS reminds all students, faculty and staff that we need your help in making OU-COM’s weekly electronic newsletter even better.
Are you publishing a paper? Winning an award? Planning an event? Let us help you publicize your achievement or event by sending news and/or announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu, or contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.

Register now for CME event
Register now for our upcoming medical education and all-class reunion event. You can earn up to 20.5 hours of AOA category 1-A and 22.5 hours of AAFP CME credit while mingling with colleagues, former classmates and OU-COM faculty, staff and students.
An all-class reunion and awards presentation evening is planned for Friday, Sept. 25, so call your classmates now and ask them to join you in Columbus.
Early bird registration, through Sept. 13, is $300. Registration Sept. 14 -26 is $400. Interns and residents register for $100. Make your hotel reservations at the Hilton Columbus at Easton before Sept. 3 for a special room rate of $160/night. To get the conference rate, call 614.414.5000 and mention Ohio University or go online at www.hiltoncolumbus.com and enter Code OHI.

* For more information, call Jill Harman, director of alumni affairs, at 593.4232 or 593.2151 or email: harmanj@ohio.edu.


CALENDAR

OU-COM Organization Fair

· Event: TODAY, Sept. 8, 5-7 p.m., Irvine bricks



Ice Cream scream

Celebrity scoopers will be featured at the OU-COM Ice Cream Social. Enjoy a dish of ice cream with fixings for $1 a serving or $2 for all you can eat. A split-the-pot drawing also will be held.

· Event: Tuesday, Sept. 15, noon, Irvine Bricks.



Research Day

* Event: Friday, Sept. 18, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Irvine bricks
* For more information, contact Jessica Wingett at wingettj@ohio.edu or 593.2336.




PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Move around
While your students apply their new skills, don't just sit back and take it easy. Now's the time to scan the room, move around and make sure everyone's doing what they’re supposed to be doing. Answer questions, give gentle reminders and make sure the lesson's going how you envisioned it would. Some students may need extra attention to stay on task, so you may want to be strategic about how circle the room and where you linger.
From http://k6educators.about.com/cs/lessonplanskin/a/idagreatlesson.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 mailto:daviss@oucom.ohiou.edu?subject=Faculty Development Tip for you! 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.

Staff changes
Carol Blue, director of special projects and assistant to the dean, is retiring. Her last day is Wednesday, Sept. 30.


Please welcome Kumika Toma, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow for Thad Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology in Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Toma joined us September 1. You can reach her in Irvine Hall 210A or at 593.2233.


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.