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NEWS
New pocket-sized OMM reference guide
Third-year osteopathic medical students will have something new in their pockets during clinical rotations: OMM Quick Cards.
Developed by the CORE Osteopathic Principles and Practices Committee (COPPC), this pocket-sized, fold-out reference guide is designed “to facilitate the integration of the AOA core competencies into residents’ practice of medicine to improve the health and healing of patients,” according to COPPC members.
A card will be mailed to every third-year osteopathic medical student in the country this month.
Stevan Walkowski, D.O. (’89), assistant professor of family medicine and chair of COPPC, said the group had been working on a manual for third-year residents, when committee member Clay Walsh, D.O., clinical associate professor of OMM at Summa Western Reserve Hospital, recommended putting the information into a pocket-sized card that residents could easily carry and refer to as needed.
“The OMM Quick Card is a reference manual, not a solution-based manual,” Walkowski said. “In other words, it does not give solutions to problems, like ‘if this, then that.’ It is a reminder to students of the osteopathic principles that are important to think about on a day-to-day basis.”
The publication was designed by the OU-COM Office of Communication.
Soon the OMM Quick Cards will be distributed throughout the CORE and to all CORE residents, CORE faculty, program directors and DMEs, among others.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Abstracts
The Council on Research announces its call for abstracts for the 2010 Research Conference and the August “abstract issue” of The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA).
Held in conjunction with the Annual Osteopathic Medical Conference and Exposition (October 24-28 in San Francisco, Calif.), the council’s 2010 Research Conference will be held Sunday, Oct. 24, to Tuesday, Oct. 26, also in San Francisco.
The formal poster session is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 24 from 1:30-5 p.m., and includes a student poster competition, co-sponsored by the Student Osteopathic Medical Association and the Council on Research.
· Submission deadline: Thursday, April 30, 11:59 p.m.
· Submit online at www.do-online.org/index.cfm?PageID=abstract.
· Learn more by contacting Gloria at the AOA Division of Research Development at 800-621-1773, ext. 8006, or at gdillard@osteopathic.org.
Retirement
Peter Dane, D.O., associate dean for pre-doctoral education, will be retiring from OU-COM after 31 years. His last day in the office will be Friday, May 7.
CALENDAR
On your mark…get set….
OU-COM Medicine Run features a 5K (3.1 mile) run/walk, and a separate one mile walk/Easter egg hunt.
· Registration fee is $15, $8 for adults 55 and older, $5 for children 12 and under
· Event: Saturday, Apr. 3, Grosvenor Hall, run/walk at 9 a.m., walk/egg hunt at 9:15 a.m.
Spring Roll 101
Spring into spring quarter with Spring Roll 101! Learn how to make chicken, shrimp and veggie spring rolls with the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association.
· Cost: $10 at the door.
· Event: Thursday, Apr. 1, 7 to 8 p.m., Grosvenor 126
Hospital Day
Don’t miss this chance to meet representatives from CORE sites and other hospitals, and learn about their medical education programs.
· Event: Wednesday, Apr. 7
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Faculty Focus: Free resource for higher ed.
Check out Faculty Focus, a free e-newsletter published by Magna Publications. First launched in 2003, it contains valuable information for faculty, academic deans and department chairs. Faculty Focus publishes the e-newsletter three times a week and maintains a web site spotlighting best practices in higher education today.
Sign up online for this resource and get immediate access to the site’s Free Report Quick Links. Below are several topics (available once you sign up) addressed by the Faculty Focus web site:
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
WOWK (3-26-10)
“New board member appointed at Shawnee State University”
http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=77382&catid=45
(Reports on appointment of OU-COM alumna Rita Roberts, D.O.)
The Columbus Dispatch (3-21-10)
“More patients will require more doctors”
(Third paragraph from bottom – NOTE: Reporter erroneously interpreted the figures we provided. The release copy read: “Of the 104 Class of 2009 graduates of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, 44 (44.23%) went into primary care residencies (family practice, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.”)
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