DO - Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
DO - Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
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On Campus<br />
“…a gem in the neediest setting”<br />
This is how Joe Hallet, a senior editor at The Columbus Dispatch,<br />
described OU-COM in an editorial he wrote after a campus visit in<br />
February. In the photo below right, John Schriner, Ph.D., director<br />
<strong>of</strong> admissions, points out OU-COM’s Parks Hall clinic to Hallet during<br />
a campus tour. Hallet lived in Parks Hall as an <strong>Ohio</strong> <strong>University</strong> student<br />
more than 35 years ago<br />
In his editorial, Hallet wrote about the tough funding situation in<br />
<strong>Ohio</strong> for higher education and the reality that every college “soon may<br />
have to prove its worth to obtain state funding. That challenge is not<br />
feared by Dr. Jack Brose … His medical school is attracting the best<br />
and the brightest – 3,200 applicants for 100 first-year slots in 2006<br />
– in the state’s poorest and medically neediest region.”<br />
Thanks to Dean Jack Brose, D.O., and college advocacy efforts,<br />
government constituents are getting the same message that 54 percent<br />
<strong>of</strong> OU-COM alumni practice in primary care fields, and more than 60<br />
percent remain in <strong>Ohio</strong>, where they are more likely to practice in rural<br />
and other physician-shortage areas.<br />
<strong>Ohio</strong> Governor Ted Strickland, Representative Jimmy Stewart, OHIO<br />
President Roderick McDavis and Eric Fingerhut, chancellor <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Ohio</strong><br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Regents, toured campus in April, where they spoke to Dean<br />
Brose aboard OU-COM’s<br />
mobile health clinic, top and<br />
above right.<br />
State Senator Steve Stivers,<br />
and his brother Alan, also<br />
visited the college this spring.<br />
Here, left, they look at<br />
plasticized models with<br />
Dean Brose in the anatomy<br />
lab. Stivers is vice chair <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Senate’s Finance and Financial<br />
Institutions committee.<br />
-Karoline Lane<br />
summer/fall 2007 3