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NEWS
Please join us for our 9th Annual Research Day, this year at the ARC
OU-COM Dean Jack Brose, D.O., will deliver the keynote address to the participants of the 9th Annual OU-COM Research Day.
This year’s event moves to a new location in the atrium of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations and Charles R. and Marilyn Y. Stuckey Academic & Research Center.
Judging will take place Thursday evening prior to Friday’s public event.
A list of the researchers and their poster titles can be viewed at http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/r&g/ResearchDay2010.htm.
Read about this year’s event at http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/ResearchDay2010/index.htm.
Witmer assumes presidency of international group
Lawrence Witmer, Ph.D., professor of anatomy, was installed as president of the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology at the group’s congress held this summer in Uruguay. He has served as president-elect for the past three years, and will serve as president until 2013. Read Witmer’s account of this year’s congress, which one current and one former member of his lab attended, at http://witmerlab.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/a-congress-to-love-intl-congress-of-vertebrate-morphology-uruguay-july-2010/.
Volunteers sought to help with health summit
Volunteers are needed to help organize activities and events related to the first Appalachian Health Summit to Reverse and Prevent Chronic Disease, planned for May 19 to 21 in Athens. The event is co-sponsored by the City of Athens, OU-COM and the OU College of Health Sciences and Professions. The planning committee’s next meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Athens Community Center.
To read about the summit, go to http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/HealthyAppalachia/index.htm, or
www.appalachianhealthsummit.com.
CALENDAR
Wellness “Get Fit”
Andrew Chiki of Wellworks will speak on the importance of staying physically fit for medical students and other interested guests.
Professionalism Introduction to Medical Ethics
Arthur Zucker, 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.
OOA and the osteopathic medical profession
Laura Whitt, M.S., director of Leadership Development for the Ohio Osteopathic Association, will discuss the role of the OOA in the osteopathic profession.
State of the College Address
Dean Jack Brose, D.O., delivers his annual State of the College Address.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty development tidbit: Good Teaching Requirements #5 & #6 of 10
Five. Good teaching is also about style. Should good teaching be entertaining? You bet! Does this mean that it lacks in substance? Not a chance! Effective teaching is not about being locked with both hands glued to a podium or having your eyes fixated on a slide projector while you drone on. Good teachers work the room and every student in it. They realize that they are the conductors and that the class is their orchestra. All students play different instruments and at varying proficiencies. A teacher’s job is to develop skills and make these instruments come to life as a coherent whole to make music.
Six. And this is very important, good teaching is about humor. It’s about being self-deprecating and not taking yourself too seriously. It’s often about making innocuous jokes, mostly at your own expense, so that the ice breaks and students learn in a more relaxed atmosphere where you, like them, are human with your own share of faults and shortcomings
Source: Dr. Richard W. Leblanc is an associate professor at York University in Toronto. Contact him at rleblanc@yorku.ca.
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/philosophy-of-teaching/good-teaching-the-top-10-requirements/
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
Columbus Dispatch (9-11-10)
“Students’ health service upgraded”
The Post (9-10-10)
“New management looks to heal Hudson”
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=32161
The Post (9-10-10)
“Licensing revenue earns Ohio $8.2 M”
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=32164
Athens Messenger (9-9-10)
“Organizers imploring Mrs. Obama to speak at health summit”
http://www.athensmessenger.com/news/local/article_9fd4a9d4-bc10-11df-94bd-001cc4c002e0.html
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