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NEWS 
Four OU-COM Students take National Offices
               Four third-year OU-COM students were elected to national offices at the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians Student Chapter Conference. The conference was held in San Francisco in conjunction with this year’s ACEOP Scientific Assembly. 
               Andy Little, OMS III, was elected to a second term as the ACOEP student chapter national president and Jeremy Wachenscwanz, OMS III, was elected as the group’s vice president. Cara Norvell, OMS III, was elected to serve as the ACOEP student chapter public relations committee and Stephanie Zaug, OMS III, was elected to serve as the ACOEP student chapter graduate Medical Education Chair. Each student will serve in his or her position for the next calendar year.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sigma Sigma Phi Giving Tree

            The Sigma Sigma Phi Giving Tree is now looking for participants to help provide gifts to the children of Athens County. Ornaments on the tree each contain the name of a child, their age and a few gift ideas which they are interested in or need. Participants can choose an ornament and purchase a gift for that child.

            The Giving Tree is located in the OU-COM Student Affairs Office (G018) until Monday, Dec. 13. All gifts should be wrapped and returned to the tree by that day. For any questions, contact Stephanie DeAngelis, OMS II, Sigma Sigma Phi president, sd232509@ohio.edu. 

 

New Hires

Starting today, please welcome André Schmidt, new research associate under Audrone Biknevicius, Ph.D., department of Biological Sciences, and Filiz Aydin, CORE administrator at Summa Western Reserve Hospital. Schmidt can be reached in the Life Sciences Building 120 or 3-0784. Aydin can be reached at 1900 23rd St., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 44223 or 330-971-7439.

 

ROUNDS take a break

            Due to the closing of the Fall academic quarter and the Thanksgiving holiday, ROUNDS will not be published Monday, Nov. 22. ROUNDS will return to your inbox on Monday, Nov. 29.

 

 

CALENDAR    

Schweitzer Fellowship program information meeting

            Schweitzer Program Director Terry Bahn, Ed.D., will visit OU-COM to provide information to students interested in applying. Applications are due by Tuesday, Feb. 1, noon, Irvine 19.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit:  Socratic questions

            Socrates was one of the greatest educators who taught by asking questions and thus drawing out (“ex duco,” meaning to “lead out,” which is the root of “education”) answers from his pupils.  This is week five of a “Faculty Development Tidbit” series that will highlight the types of questions that Socrates asked his pupils, often to their initial annoyance, but more often to their ultimate delight.

 

 The six types of questions include:

1. Conceptual clarification questions; 

2. Probing assumptions; 

3. Probing rationale, reasons and evidence; 

4. Questioning viewpoints and perspectives; 

5. Probing implications and consequences; 

6. Questions about the question. 

 

The overall purpose is to challenge accuracy and completeness of thinking in a way that acts to move people towards their ultimate goal.

 

TYPE 5.  Probe implications and consequences

 

The argument that they give may have logical implications that can be forecast. Do these make sense? Are they desirable?

·Then what would happen?

· What are the consequences of that assumption?

· How could ... be used to ... ?

· What are the implications of ... ?

· How does ... affect ... ?

· How does ... fit with what we learned before?

· Why is ... important?

· What is the best ... ? Why?

 

 Source: http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/socratic_questions.htm

 

            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 withSteve Davis, Ph.D.; Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D.; and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.

 

 

IN THE NEWS

The Post (11-9-10)

“OU-COM Grant to fund new diabetes drug study”

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=5&ArticleID=33001

 

The Post (11-15-10)

“Former Hudson Health Center works to shorten wait, change 'negative stigma'”
 

http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=33075&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=5&S=1

 

Athens News (11-8-10) page 16

“Grant expands OU-COM research on Chagas disease”

 

Athens News (11-8-10) page 17

“NIH grant to fund research into possible causes, prevention of type 1 diabetes”

 

The Post (11-4-10)

“Let's talk about se: OU slips in sexual health services ranking”
 

http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=32944&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=38&S=1

 

 

 

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