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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
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NEWS
OU-COM team returns from Haiti
Fourteen volunteer physicians from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) and its affiliated teaching hospitals have returned from Haiti, where they provided medical care to survivors of last month’s devastating earthquake. Nine of these volunteers are from the Athens area.
Led by David Drozek, D.O. (’83), assistant professor of surgery, the team worked in cooperation with DELTA Ministries International at Clinic Lilavois, a charity mission hospital, and at other sites on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
To read more, go to www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/Hati10/index.htm.
While there, Drozek sent OU-COM periodic updates of the volunteers’ work. You can read his dispatches at www.oucom.ohiou.edu/International/HaitiUpdates2010.htm.
Drozek has also uploaded dozens of photographs, which can be viewed at www.oucom.ohiou.edu/International/HaitiPhotos2010.htm.
In addition, Mark Foglietti, D.O. (’82), sent nearly daily Twitter updates from Haiti. You can read his tweets at
http://twitter.com/drallnewyou.
If you would like to join a future team, contact Gillian Ice, Ph.D., associate professor of social medicine, at (iceg@ohio.edu).
COMCorps project named among top programs in state
COMCorps, a chapter of AmeriCorps run by Community Health Programs, received statewide recognition for an October service project in Glouster.
The group’s Glouster Community Garden Project was selected as one of 10 outstanding projects from more than 1,100 held in Ohio for the 2010 Make a Difference Day. Created by USA Weekend Magazine, Make a Difference Day is a nationwide day of volunteerism. COMCorps volunteers helped build 12 raised garden beds at the Glouster Community Garden.
The group was joined by Glouster Community Gardeners, VISTA volunteers, Community Food Initiatives (CFI), CFI’s Red Hot Pepper 4-H Club, local master gardeners and community members.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Visit the new Gross Anatomy Lab!
Gross Anatomy staff members would like to invite all faculty, staff and students to visit the newly renovated Gross Anatomy Lab, Grosvenor 139, this Thursday between 3-4 p.m.
The lab has grown by 38 percent (from 2,861 square feet to 3,940 square feet). New heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems were installed, along with new sinks and wall and ceiling tiles. The approximate $950,000 cost was paid through OU-COM general operating funds.
Audrone Biknevicius, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and associate professor of anatomy, thanks the college, especially Dean Jack Brose, D.O., for making possible these renovations. Appreciation also goes to the entire anatomy lab staff—Don Kincaid, director of anatomical services and the willed body program; Dale Wolfe, anatomical assistant; and Nancy Davis, administrative assistant—for their help and flexibility during the renovation, and to the anatomy faculty and medical students who had to adapt their lab schedules to allow for the renovation.
Other major players in the renovations planning included Al Reed, academic coordinator of medical informatics; Larry Witmer, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and director of anatomical resources; as well as Dean Dupler, director of facilities management, for shepherding this complicated project to completion.
Coffee, food available in ARC café
Need a quick lunch, latte or afternoon treat? Visit the OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends Café in the new Academic and Research Center (ARC).
The café, managed by Ohio University Dining Services, serves brewed coffee and espresso drinks, teas, pastries, sandwiches, salads, cookies and other desserts, in addition to fountain drinks on weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The café is expected to expand its afternoon hours during spring quarter.
Coffee is supplied by Gallipolis-based Silver Bridge Coffee Company, where fresh Arabica beans harvested from all over the world are blended and roasted in small batches.
The café is located in the atrium of the ARC.
CALENDAR
Visit the new Gross Anatomy Lab!
Faculty, staff and students are invited to visit the newly renovated gross anatomy lab.
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar
Lorena Carlson, MSPH, will present “Unintentional Poisoning in the Elderly.”
· Presentation: Monday, March 15, noon-1 p.m., O’Bleness Medical Education Conference room 014, or Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Questioning techniques
Connection Questions: Questioning techniques, II
Questions gauge student understanding, while simultaneously involving the students in their construction of knowledge. In particular, “connection questions” help students to recognize knowledge systems.
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.
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Athens News (3-8-10)
“Judge throws out suit challenging med school's collection policy”
OUTLOOK (3-5-10)
“OU-COM employee starts fund to buy memorial stones for children”
www.ohio.edu/outlook/2009-10/January/Parkers_Markers_310.cfm
The Athens Messenger (3-4-10)
“Local doctors on the scene in Haiti”
http://athensmessenger.com/news/local/article_e23d42fe-2791-11df-a396-001cc4c002e0.html
The Athens Messenger (3-3-10)
“Group Hero winner goes to league of volunteers working to help kids”
www.athensmessenger.com/news/local/article_76c99838-26c9-11df-8669-001cc4c03286.html
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.