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

 

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NEWS

Diabetes clinical trial recruiting patients

            OU-COM researchers are recruiting type 2 diabetes patients for a clinical trial the will study the benefits of short-term intensive insulin therapy on the management of diabetes.

            Jay Shubrook, D.O. (’96), associate professor of family medicine and director of clinical research, is the primary investigator on the trial.  He and his team carried out a previous trial in which newly diagnosed diabetes patients received 12 weeks of intensive insulin therapy.  

            The patients in the previous study have benefitted from stable glucose levels for up to two and a half years.  An article detailing the results of the study has recently been accepted in the journal Insulin. 

            Shubrook and his team are recruiting local adults who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within the past six months to participate in the trial.

            For more information or to sign up for the trial, call 1-877-762-3888.

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

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Research Day deadlines fast approaching

 Wednesday, Sept. 1, is the deadline for submitting project titles, abstracts and electronic versions of posters for production for the 9^th Annual OU-COM Research Day.

            For information, contact Jessica Wingett, manager of the Office of Research and Grants, at wingettj@ohio.edu, or at 593-2336.

            Posters for the event that are to be printed by communication design services need to be submitted to Danette Pratt, graphic artist and biomedical illustrator.

To submit a poster for printing, upload your file to the yousendit drop box link that has been added to  design services’ research posters site. The drop box will automatically generate an e-mail to design services announcing that a file has arrived for printing. This system replaces the old graphicsupload e-mail, which has been disconnected.

The link is located at http://dropbox.yousendit.com/DanettePratt11894102.

Poster files can also be put on a flash drive and delivered to Irvine 126 for printing. Please do not send posters or any large files to Pratt’s university work e-mail address.

Updates to templates have been completed and can be found on the research posters web page link below, along with downloadable poster-size COM logos and COM seal files. Any poster files not received by the Sept. 1 deadline will need to be printed elsewhere. Contact Pratt at pratt@ohio.edu or at 593-2296 for help with poster production or questions about printing.

• Visit the research posters site at http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/communications/posters2009.htm

 

New staffers begin work

• Effective Wednesday, Sept. 1, please welcome Kerin Claeson, Ph.D., anatomical sciences instructor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Claeson will be  in the Life Sciences Building 113A or she can be reached at 593-2497. 
• Effective Monday, Sept. 27, please welcome Jessica Bartolone, B.A., CORE administrator at Affinity Medical Center. Bartolone can be reached at 330-834-4783.  Her office address is  875 Eighth Street, NE, Massillon, OH  44646. 

 

 

CALENDAR

University closes for Labor Day holiday

• Monday, Sept. 6, university closed.

 

SGA Organization Fair

• Event: Thursday, Sept. 9, 5:15 p.m., Irvine Bricks.

 

9th Annual OU-COM Research Day

• Event: Thursday, Sept. 16, 5:30 p.m., Research Day student poster presentations and judging. Academic & Research Center

 

• Event: Friday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Research Day poster viewing, Academic & Research Center

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty development tidbit: Good Teaching Requirements #1 & #2

1. Good teaching is as much about passion as it is about reason. It’s about motivating students not only to learn, but teaching them how to learn, and doing so in a manner that is relevant, meaningful and memorable. It’s about caring for your craft, having a passion for it and conveying that passion to everyone, but mostly importantly to your students.

2. Good teaching is about substance and treating students as consumers of knowledge. It’s about doing your best to keep on top of your field, reading sources, inside and outside of your areas of expertise, and being at the leading edge as often as possible. But knowledge is not confined to scholarly journals. Good teaching is also about bridging the gap between theory and practice. It’s about leaving the ivory tower and immersing oneself in the field—in talking to, consulting with, and assisting practitioners and liaising with their communities.

 

Source: Dr. Richard W. Leblanc is an associate professor at York University in Toronto. Contact him at rleblanc@yorku.ca.

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/philosophy-of-teaching/good-teaching-the-top-10-requirements

 

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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