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

 

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NEWS

Equipment grant expands research, teaching capabilities
            The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering, OU-COM and the College of Arts and Sciences have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to purchase a state-of-the-art flow cytometer with cell-sorting capabilities.
            The NSF awarded the three Ohio University colleges $452,828 after a rigorous evaluative process in which only 10 to 15 percent of applicants received an award.
            The only instrument of its kind in southeast Ohio, the flow cytometer will enable medical, science and engineering students and researchers to look at the size, shape and molecular content of cells and then extract from large and diverse groups the specific type of cell(s) they would like to study.

            Fabian Benencia, Ph.D., assistant professor of immunology, said that the instrument will aid his research of tumor vaccines by allowing him to single out the type of blood cells that attack tumors the best and develop a vaccine that increases the number of those cells in the blood.

            To read more about the grant, go to

http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/10-11/10/Flow-Cytometer-purchase.cfm

         

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Research and Scholarly Affairs Committee Call for Proposals

            The deadline for submitting proposals to the Research and Scholarly Affairs Committee (RSAC) is Monday, Nov. 15^th. 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:

 

• No faculty member will receive funding for more than three consecutive years in the absence of efforts, as a principal investigator, to obtain research funds from sources other than OU-COM.
• No faculty member will receive funding for more that five consecutive years without obtaining research funds from sources other that OU-COM.

 

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

Former associate dean visits

            Thomas Campenella, J.D., former associate dean of OU-COM, former chief operating officer of the University Osteopathic Medical Center and a former OU-COM associate professor of social medicine, will speak on the new Health Reform Bill as part of the Business in Medicine series.

• Event: Tuesday, Oct. 19, noon, Irvine 199

 

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 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Westin Market Street

 

Residency Networking Event

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

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit:  Socratic questions

Socrates was one of the greatest educators who taught by asking questions and thus drawing out (as 'ex duco', meaning to 'lead out', which is the root of 'education') answers from his pupils.  Over the next six weeks the “Faculty Development Tidbit” will highlight the six types of questions that Socrates asked his pupils, often to their initial annoyance but more often to their ultimate delight (Conceptual clarification questions; Probing assumptions; Probing rationale, reasons and evidence; Questioning viewpoints and perspectives; Probe implications and consequences; 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 1. Conceptual clarification questions

Get students to think more about what exactly they are asking or thinking about. Prove the concepts behind their argument. Basic 'tell me more' questions that get them to go deeper.

                Why are you saying that?

                What exactly does this mean?

                How does this relate to what we have been talking about?

                What is the nature of ...?

                What do we already know about this?

                Can you give me an example?

                Are you saying ... or ... ?

                Can you rephrase that, please?

 

Print this out and try these at your next teaching or facilitating venue.

 

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 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 Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.