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NEWS

OU-COM research attracts international attention

            A study published in last week’s edition of Nature by lead author Patrick O’Connor, associate professor of anatomy, and an international team that includes both Nancy Stevens, Ph.D., assistant  professor of functional morphology  and vertebrate paleontology, and Ryan Ridgely, OU-COM research technician, has caught media attention from across the globe.

            O’Connor and his team wrote about their fossil discovery of a new species, Pakasuchus kapilimai, an ancient crocodile with mammal-like teeth found in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania. The project was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

As of noon today,  a Google News search showed more than 12,700 articles from television networks, newspapers, science web sites and bloggers.

O’Connor is featured discussing the discovery in a video on the National Science Foundation’s web site.

·         Watch the video here: www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=117392&media_id=67196.

·         Read the story by Ohio University’s Office of Research Communication here: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/oconner_fossil/index.htm.

 

Alumnus elected to AOA Board of Trustees

            William J. Burke, D.O., F.A.C.O.F.P. (’88), of Gahanna, was elected to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Board of Trustees during its recent annual business meeting in Chicago. He is an AOA board-certified family physician.

• Read more at www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/Burke10/index.htm.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

AOA bureau issues call for essays on osteopathic history           

            To encourage osteopathic medical students, interns and residents to study their profession’s struggles and achievements, the AOA Bureau of Osteopathic History and Identity is conducting its sixth annual history essay competition.

            The bureau will award a $5,000 first prize, a $3,000 second prize and a $2,000 third prize

            Each year, the bureau chooses five of its 20 core principles for teaching the history of osteopathic medicine that essayists should focus on.

·         Read more here: www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=2096.

 

 

 

CALENDAR

Convocation 2010

• Event: Saturday, Aug. 14, 2 p.m., Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Reception follows in Boyd Cafeteria.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty development tidbit:  Teacher as organizer         

For learning to take place, several factors must ideally be in place:

1. a learner or a group of learners;
2. facilities: a place and time for meeting and materials to aid learning;
3. an understood procedure for presenting and discussing information to be learned;
4. a method of evaluating what how well the learners are absorbing, understanding and critically synthesizing that information; and
5. an organizer who brings these parts into a whole -- in other words, the teacher.

            The task of any organizer is to enable a group and the individuals in it to work together to achieve a common goal. Here are some good tips to follow in your role as teacher:

• A good organizer is not an autocrat.
• However, he does not simply behave like any other member of the group. The group needs positive leadership in order to clarify its purpose and achieve its desired results.
• A good organizer helps the group and the individuals in it to discover, to formulate and to clarify their own purposes.
• She delegates and distributes responsibility as widely as possible.
• A good organizer encourages and values initiative within in the framework of the purpose of the class.
• He builds on strengths rather that emphasizing weakness.
• A good organizer fosters self-criticism and self-evaluation within the group.
• She maintains control.

 

Source: The Center for Teaching Excellence at the United States Military Academy http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/organize.htm

Find more 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 Richard Heck, writer/editor, at 593.0896 or heck@oucom.ohiou.edu.

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