Transforming health care through leadership education
Vol. I, Issue 20
News
Career Development Retreat Scheduled for May 27All faculty receiving COMER funding are encouraged to attend a special day devoted to Career Path Development for Academic Health Professionals on May 27, 2009. The day’s activities, which will begin at 8:30 am in the Biomedical Research Tower, will include breakout sessions on topics that include defining your professional mission, presenting yourself effectively, publishing your educational materials in a public forum, and rejuvenating your career path. RSVP is required. Contact megan.rock@osumc.edu or call 614-292-0018.
Be One of Three to Attend AAMC June ProgramThe College of Medicine will sponsor three faculty members to attend an upcoming AAMC program that will teach successful strategies for both enhancing clinical quality and teaching clinical quality across the curriculum. The Integrating Quality Project, which will be held June 15 and 16 in Chicago, Illinois, will focus on five key organizational factors necessary for achieving these goals – the principles of safety and quality, education across the medical education continuum, team and behavioral competence training, assessment and data analysis, and performance improvement activities. Faculty interested in attending should contact Catherine Lucey or Carla Granger.
Don’t Miss June 4 Graduation Day ActivitiesHelp honor the Class of 2009 in the June 4 convocation ceremonies. Join students, colleagues, friends and family in activities that begin at 11:30 am with a barbecue in front of Meiling Hall and conclude with the traditional hooding ceremony at 8:00 pm in Mershon Auditorium. Faculty participating in the convocation procession are asked to meet at the entrance to the Faculty Club at 7:00 pm to begin the walk to Mershon.
Would you like a free Ipod Touch? The College of Medicine is looking for three clinician educators who are willing to explore how faculty can use the iPod Touch as a teaching device in the clinical environment. Faculty who are willing to work with the iPod Touch for six weeks and provide feedback on how to engage other faculty and students in its use should contact Catherine Lucey. Read more about the Smart Phone in this Washington Post article and how we’re using it here.
Resources
Digital Union to Feature Faculty, Student Projects
In celebration of its fifth anniversary, the Ohio Digital Union will be showcasing faculty and student projects created over the past five years in a two-hour presentation to be held on Thursday, May 21. Projects will include innovative multimedia instruction in ESL, interactive online modules about course redesign in Statistics, wireless internet installation in a Honduran orphanage, and video selections from the
International Day for Sharing Life Stories. Hands-on demonstrations of emerging technologies will also be featured.
Recognition & Awards
Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychologist in the Center for Palliative Care, is one of 75 competitively selected psycho-oncology professionals from across the nation to be selected to attend a three-day course on improving palliative and end-of-life care. The educational program, entitled The ACE Project - Advocating for Clinical Excellence: Transdisciplinary Palliative Care Education, is part of a five-year grant given to The City of Hope (COH) from the National Cancer program. Read more about the ACE Project.
Christopher Taylor, PhD, RD, LD, Assistant Professor in the School of Allied Medical Professions, has received both the 2009 Ohio Dietetic Association and the American Dietetic Association Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award for Coordinated Programs. Congratulations, Chris.
Ragavendra R. Baliga, PhD, assistant division chief of cardiovascular medicine and professor of internal medicine, has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Education Journal Club
Glassick C.E. “Boyer’s Expanded Definitions of Scholarship, the Standards for Assessing Scholarship, and the Elusiveness of the Scholarship of Teaching.” Academic Medicine, 2000; 75:877-880.
Debate about faculty roles and rewards in higher education during the past decade has been fueled by the work of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, principally Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed. Scholars at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching surveyed journal editors, scholarly press directors, and granting agencies to learn their definitions of excellence in scholarship. From the findings of these surveys, six standards of excellence in scholarship were derived: Scholars whose work is published or rewarded must have clear goals, be adequately prepared, use appropriate methods, achieve outstanding results, communicate effectively, and then reflectively critique their work. The work of Lee Shulman and others has helped clarify the issues even as the definition of this form of scholarship continues to be debated at colleges and universities across the nation. This article is available through the E-Journals on the Prior Health Sciences Web Site. (Use this link if you are off campus.)
Upcoming Seminars
Thursday, May 21, 2009 “Diversity in the Workplace: Managing Crucial Conversations” (Leadership Academy series)
8:00 am to 12 noon, Room 325, Ackerman Training Center, 660 Ackerman Road
Register through the CBL login. Questions? Contact leadershipacademy@osumc.edu, or call 3-8929.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009“Hospice and Palliative Care – The Who, What, Where, When and Why”, Thomas J. Smith, MD, Massey Endowed Professor for Palliative Care Research and Medical Director, Thomas Palliative Care Unit, Virginia Commonwealth University-Massey Cancer Center
1:00pm, 170 Heart & Lung Research Institute (Auditorium)
presented by the James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute
More information.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009Career Path Development for Academic Health Professionals8:30 a.m., Biomedical Research Tower (BRT) - Room 115A & B
RSVP required; contact megan.rock@osumc.edu or call 614-292-0018.
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