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

 

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NEWS

Symposium to feature first multi-state poster contest

            OU-COM, CORE and the Ohio Osteopathic Association will hold a Regional Osteopathic Poster Exhibition and Competition as part of the annual Ohio Osteopathic Symposium April 30, 2011, in Columbus. The event is open to students, interns and residents, faculty, medical administrators and practicing physicians from six states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

            Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due Jan. 31, 2011, and should be sent to the CORE Research Office.

            Read more about event at http://www.ohiocore.org/news/ooacoreresearch.htm.

 

Grosvenor Hall renovations to impact access

            Continuing work on the new Clinical Training and Assessment Center in Grosvenor Hall this month will impact use of student lockers and accessibility to the building’s ground floor.

            All student lockers in the hallways on the ground floor will be removed Friday, Dec. 10, after noon in preparation for removal of corridor carpeting and underlying tile, as well as continued asbestos abatement. The lockers will be replaced by Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, according to Dean Dupler, director of facilities management.

            Beginning Friday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m., the entire ground floor of Grosvenor Hall will close for the work, and will not reopen until Wednesday, Dec. 22. The building will still be accessible by normal entry onto the first floor, and elevators will be operational but closed off to ground floor entry during that time, said Robin Faires, AUID, project manager for the renovation work.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Join your colleagues for holiday food drive
           Please join OU-COM in making the holidays a bit brighter for some area families who are in need. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to join this college-wide holiday food drive, the proceeds of which go to support the Diabetes Free Clinic patients.
            During this year’s WinterBlast, Wednesday, Dec. 15, non-perishable food will be collected; the food will be distributed as part of the Diabetes Free Clinic monthly food distributions to those patients in need of food assistance.
            Items such as canned goods, especially those that are high in protein and sugar-free, will be accepted. Cash donations to support the purchase of additional food will also be accepted.
            Last year, staff members of the college’s offices of admissions, student affairs, medical development and alumni affairs, research and grants, institutional assessment, and communication collected nearly 300 pounds of boxed and canned goods for the Athens County Food Bank. This year, those departments will join the rest of the college, including students, to collect food for Diabetes Free Clinic patients.

            A non-perishable food wish list containing diabetes appropriate choices include: peanut butter, canned tuna (in water), dried beans, peas, lentils, whole grain pasta, hot and cold cereals (unsweetened), 100% fruit juice, canned fruit (in water or juice), unsweetened applesauce, canned tomato products (low sodium and regular), salsa, canned beans and vegetables, chicken broth (low fat, low sodium), olive oil/canola oil, sugar free pudding or gelatin mixes, V-8 juice (low sodium), sugar free instant breakfast drink mix.

 

Sigma Sigma Phi Giving Tree

            All 75 ornaments on the Sigma Sigma Phi Giving Tree have been claimed.  This effort will help provide gifts to children of Athens County who might not, otherwise, receive gifts this holiday season.  Each ornament on the tree listed the name of a child, his or her age, and gift ideas for that child. All gifts should be wrapped, tagged and returned to the Office of Student Affairs by Monday, Dec. 13.

 

CALENDAR

Learn about the 2010 El Salvador/EDEINFA  

            Research presentations will be given by participants of El Salvador/CEDEINFA 2010, followed by a question and answer session for each presenter. Introduction and closing statements will be offered by David Drozek, D.O. (’83), assistant professor of surgery, and Godwin Dogbey, Ph.D., CORE biostatistician.

·         Event: Wednesday, Dec. 8, noon, Irvine 199

 

Winter Blast

            The OU-COM annual Winter Blast luncheon features turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, rolls, beverages and potluck desserts. RSVP to Mike Yeager by Thursday, Dec. 9, at noon, in Grosvenor 220 or at 593-9300.

• Event: Wednesday, Dec. 15, 11:30 a.m., Irvine bricks

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit:  Stimulate Classroom Discussion

Get those discussions started by beginning class with a discussion of an “issue of the day.”  Discussions can last for 10-15 minutes and can revolve around issues of the field or discipline, an issue from current events (as it relates to your course content), or a generic campus issue.

 

Teaching Tip #41 from University of Tennessee Chattanooga Walker Teaching Resource Center (http://www.utc.edu/Administration/WalkerTeachingResourceCenter/FacultyDevelopment/TeachingTips.php).

 

             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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