Welcome to ROUNDS!
This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
The ROUNDS archive is here.
NEWS
Everything you wanted to know about Commencement 2010
The June 5 Commencement ceremony is right around the corner. Check out the event web site for information about weekend activities, maps and guides for attendees and their guests:
www.oucom.ohiou.edu/saffairs/Graduation/2009/2010/2010%20graduation.htm.
If you haven’t filled out a News Release Form, do so! Forms are available on the commencement web site. Completed forms can be e-mailed to heck@oucom.ohiou.edu, faxed to 740.593.0343, or hand-delivered to Richard Heck, writer/editor, in his new office: Irvine Hall 353.
If you do not wish to have any graduation news releases sent, check the appropriate box and sign your name in section one before returning the form.
OU-COM students earn first place awards at university research expo
Marisa McGinley, OMS-II, and Paul Eichenseer, OMS-III, both earned first place in the medicine category of Ohio University’s Student Research and Creativity Expo, held May 13 at the Convocation Center.
McGinley’s project was titled: “Older adults exhibit more intracortical inhibition and less intracortical facilitation than young adults,” and Eichenseer’s was “Development and validation of a clinically applicable sacroiliac joint finite element model.”
Brian Clark, Ph. D., assistant professor of neuromuscular biology, provided research mentorship to both students. Eichenseer also worked with Daryl Sybert, D.O. (’86), F.A.O.A.O., clinical associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Mt. Carmel New Albany Surgery Hospital.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Staff changes announced
Please welcome Aili Guo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of endocrinology in the Department of Specialty Medicine. As of July 1, you can reach her in her office, ARC 302.
Also please welcome Stéphane Montuelle, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow for Susan Williams, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy, in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. On May 21, Montuelle started work in the Life Sciences Building 110B. You can also reach her at 597.2785.
Also effective July 1, promotions and tenure include:
Call for abstracts
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their Regional Medicine-Public Health Education Centers Initiative are now accepting abstracts for a conference that will explore the integration of public health into medical education.
The conference is made possible through a cooperative agreement between the AAMC and the CDC. The conference will be held at the Marriott Downtown at Key Center in Cleveland, Sept. 14 and 15.
The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, May 28. The lead author of each abstract will be notified via e-mail of the results of the review by late June.
For information, contact Katy Carkuff at kcarkuff@aamc.org or call 202.862.6202.
For up-to-date program information and submission instructions, go to www.aamc.org/ca.
CALENDAR
Annual Caregiver Series
Jen-Tzer Gau, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of geriatrics, presents “Vitamin D’s vital role in health: What you need to know,” as the final presentation in the series.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Lecture Tutorials are short worksheets that students complete in small groups in class to make lecture more interactive. They are designed to proactively address potential misconceptions and other topics students may find challenging. They pose questions of increasing conceptual difficulty to the students and help students construct correct scientific ideas.
To create your own lecture tutorials, establish what you want your students to learn, points of potential confusion and previous knowledge they could draw on to better understand the new material.
Learn more about interactive lecture activities at http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/interactive/index.html.
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 Post (5-24-10)
“Brose receives positive review”
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=31884
WOUB (5-20-10)
“More doctors specializing in diabetes coming to region”
Marietta Times (5-15-10)
“The need for diabetes care”
www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/521868.html?nav=5006
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.