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

 

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NEWS

Faculty member collaborates on headache research study

            Gary Cordingley, M.D., associate professor of neurology, was involved in a collaborative study published this week by a team of Ohio University researchers in the British Medical Journal.    

            The study found that a combination of preventive medication and behavioral changes offered significant relief for 77 percent of the individuals enrolled in a study aimed at combating frequent, disabling migraine headaches.

            Cordingley noted that the findings could be useful to clinicians seeking an edge in treating patients with frequent, hard-to-control migraines.

            To read about the study, go to

http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/migraines.cfm.

 

Dean highlights Vision 2020 goals in State of the College address

            During his State of the College address held last week on Wednesday, Oct. 6, Dean Jack Brose, D.O., touted the achievements by faculty, staff, students and alumni for the past year, and outlined an ambitious future for the college. Brose outlined the major components of Vision 2020, which remains under development, which will guide growth of OU-COM during the next 10 years. Those areas include research, campus and curriculum, and clinical and community services, which have the potential to change the entire college. A story about the dean’s address will be posted on the OU-COM website.

            In addition to his address, Brose announced the winners of the 2010 Award of Excellence Winners. The award is given to OU-COM faculty and staff who have “made and continues to make significant contributions to our achievement and visibility within the university, community and profession.”

            This year’s recipients are:

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Office of Research and Grants realigns positions, staff

            Jack Blazyk, Ph.D., associate dean for research and grants, announced the realigned structure of the Office of Research and Grants, following Chris Knisely's retirement as executive director in June 2010. See http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/r&g/ under the “News and Announcements” for details.

 

Research and Scholarly Affairs Committee Call for Proposals

            The deadline for submitting proposals to the Research and Scholarly Affairs Committee (RSAC) is Monday, Nov. 15th. This deadline applies to Bridging Support, Pilot & Small Pilot Support, and Research Mentor Incentive applications. Training proposals are accepted all year.

            Faculty members are reminded of the following guidelines for receiving awards:

 

 

The committee will meet shortly after proposals are submitted to make funding decisions. Contact Patrick O’Connor, Ph.D., at oconnorp@ohio.edu or Jessica Wingett at wingettj@ohio.edu with any questions.

 

CALENDAR  

Professionalism Introduction to Medical Ethics

            Arthur Zucker, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Philosophy and director of the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, will give an “Introduction to Medical Ethics” for OU-COM medical students.

 

Harvest Gathering

            A meal of soup beans, cornbread, pie, and drinks will be available to help support the OU-COM annual Winter Blast. Admission is $4 in advance or $5 at the door. RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 14th to Mike Yeager at yeager@oucom.ohiou.edu. Yeager advised that if OU-COMers don’t want the Harvest Gathering to be cancelled, faculty, staff and students need to register in advance to show their interest in the gathering.

 

Visit OU-COM and the CORE in San Francisco!

If you are attending the AOA’s Osteopathic Medical Conference and Exposition (OMED 2010 Unified) in San Francisco, stop by and visit OU-COM faculty, staff and students at our college booth sponsored and staffed by the Office of Medical Development and Alumni Affairs. Also, make plans to attend alumni events, where our graduates are always excited to visit with faculty, staff and students. CORE representatives will be on hand at the SOMA 2010 Fall Convention and at the conference as well.

 

SOMA Mixer with Exhibitors

·         Event: Friday, Oct. 22, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at The Westin Market Street

 

Residency Networking Event

·         Event: Sunday, Oct. 24, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Moscone Center.

 

Society of Alumni and Friends:

·         Event: Luncheon, Monday, Oct. 25, 11:30 a.m. Marriott Marquis Club Room. RSVP BY MONDAY, OCT. 18, to Lynn Chapman, 593-4232 or chapmal2@ohio.edu.

·         Event: Reception, Monday, Oct. 25, 5:30 p.m. Marriott Marquis Club Room. on about CORE at the OU-COM exhibit booth.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty development tidbit: Gallery Walk

What is Gallery Walk?   It’s a discussion technique for active engagement.

Although designed as a teaching aid for earth science, Gallery Walk can be easily adapted to teaching medical sciences.  Gallery Walk gets students out of their chairs and actively involves them in synthesizing important concepts, in consensus building, in writing, and in public speaking. In Gallery Walk, teams rotate around the classroom, composing answers to questions as well as reflecting upon the answers given by other groups.

Questions are posted on charts or pieces of paper located in different parts of the classroom. Each chart or "station" has its own question that relates to an important class concept. The technique closes with a oral presentation or "report out" in which each group synthesizes comments to a particular question. Learn more here

 

Why use Gallery Walk?  It promotes higher order thinking, oral/written presentation skills, and team building.

Gallery Walk is flexible and has many benefits. Gallery Walk can be organized for a simple fifteen minute ice breaker or for a week-long project involving graded oral and written reports. The technique encourages students to speak and write the language of science rather than just hearing it from the instructor.

In addition to addressing a variety of cognitive skills involving analysis, evaluation, and synthesis, Gallery Walk has the additional advantage of promoting cooperation, listening skills and team building. Learn more here

 

How to use Gallery Walk?  Student teams rotate between posted charts.

In Gallery Walk, student teams rotate to provide bulleted answers to questions posted on charts arranged around the classroom. After three to five minutes at a chart or "station," the team rotates to the next question.

Gallery Walk works best with open ended questions: that is, when a problem, concept, issue, or debate can be analyzed from several different perspectives. In this section find a variety of instructional resources such as preparing students for this technique, a step-by-step guide for using Gallery Walk, evaluation rubrics, and challenges in implementing the technique. Learn more here

 

References on Gallery Walk

Find journal and web references relating to Gallery Walk. Learn more here

 

            Source: http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/gallerywalk/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.

 

 

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