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

 

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NEWS

Heckman receives $1.6 million NIH grant to test telepsychiatry program

To help combat depression among HIV-infected rural residents, Tim Heckman, Ph.D., professor of geriatric medicine, is leading a nationwide study to test whether telephone-administered psychotherapy can reduce depression in this group.  

To support his efforts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Heckman a four-year, $1,630,785 grant. In this first year, NIH will provide $388,382 to help launch the program. The first year of the project will involve recruiting rural persons with HIV/AIDS and screening them for major depressive disorder, as well as training clinical psychologists in telephone-administered interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT).

            To read more, go to www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/stories/heckman09/index.

 

OU-COM staff highlight program at statewide conference

Mary McPherson, RN,C, perinatal project coordinator, presented an educational session at the March of Dimes Annual State Conference in Columbus late last year. 

The presentation, titled “Partnering care in Appalachia: How bundling services can make a difference,” examined the success of the perinatal collaboration that exists among OU-COM’s Community Health Programs, River Rose Obstetrics and Gynecology, Athens County Department of Job and Family Services, and the Athens County Women, Infants and Children program. 

Latest statistics available from the March of Dimes show that Athens County has a pre-term birth rate of 12.4 percent compared with the state of Ohio at 13 percent and Appalachian Ohio at 13.6 percent. Neighboring counties, Meigs and Vinton, both had pre-term birth rates of 19.16 percent during that same time period.

The perinatal collaboration began in 2000 when CHP received their first grant from the Ohio Department of Health to be earmarked for perinatal and well-child services. The collaboration provides intensive services such as case management by registered nurses for high-risk pregnant women and their families.

Jane Broecker, M.D., OU-COM assistant professor of ob/gyn and River Rose physician, co-authored the presentation.

 

OU-COM fall quarter in pictures

            Football, pirates and walls tumbling down—these are just a few of the scenes from last quarter at OU-COM. To revisit some memorable events, go to

www.oucom.ohiou.edu/communications/MultiMedia/Fall_09/index.htm.
 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New colleague                                                                                      

Please welcome Cynthia Birt, Young Child Wellness Council coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine.  Starting today, you can reach Birt in Grosvenor Hall 320 or at 593-2212. 

 

Grant writing help

Need some guidance writing NIH grant proposals? The OU-COM Office of Research and Grants (ORG) web site can help.

Click on the “Faculty and Staff Resources” tab at the top of the ORG front page to reveal a list of choices, including “Grant Writing Tips and Information” (www.oucom.ohiou.edu/r&g/davis/RGD%20Helpful%20Hints.htm), which provides links to online grant proposal tips and resources. The tab also includes information about funding opportunities at OU-COM and OU, and information about OU students and the history of the university.

For further assistance, contact Brooke A. Davis, Ph.D., ORG research grants developer, at davis@oucom.ohiou.edu or 593-2304.

 

Call for abstracts

Abstracts are being accepted for the Ohio Osteopathic Association (OOA) and CORE 2010 Research Poster Exhibition and Competition, 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 1^st prize and $500 for 2^nd prize. Judging will take place Saturday, May 1, at 9 a.m.

Submit abstracts (250 words or less) to April Vale at valea@ohio.edu.

• Deadline for abstracts: Sunday, Jan. 31 (Acceptance letters by Friday, Feb. 19).

  

 

CALENDAR

Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar

Jay Shubrook, D.O., associate professor of family medicine, presents “Glucose control in the elderly: Too much of too little.”

·         Presentation: TODAY, Dec. 7, noon-1 p.m., O’Bleness Medical Education Conference room 014, or Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference

 

  

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: Conflict Resolution

The interest-based relational (IBR) approach is a conflict resolution strategy that respects individual differences while helping people avoid becoming too entrenched in a fixed position.

To utilize this approach in resolving conflict, remember:

• Good relationships are the first priority. Make sure that you treat others calmly and try to build mutual respect. Do your best to be courteous and remain constructive under pressure.
• Keep people and problems separate. In many cases the other person is not just "being difficult.” Real and valid differences often lie behind conflictive positions. By separating the problem from the person, issues can be debated without damaging working relationships.
• Pay attention to the interests presented. By listening carefully you'll likely understand why the person is adopting his or her position;
• Listen first; talk second. To solve a problem effectively, try to understand where the other person is coming from before defending your own position.
• Set out the “Facts.” Establish objective, observable elements that you can agree upon and which are relevant to resolving the conflict.
• Explore options together. Be open to the idea that a third position may exist, and that you can get to this idea jointly.

By following these rules, you can often keep contentious discussions positive and constructive. They can help prevent the antagonism that can cause conflict to spin out of control.

From http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_81.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.