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DO TODAY’S DO volume 25.2 Today’s D.O. is published two times a year by the Office of Communication of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Editorial offices: Room 330, Grosvenor Hall, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 45701. Editorial Board George Dunigan II Director of Governmental Affairs Ryan Palmer Student Government President Edwin Rowland, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences John Schriner, Ph.D. Director of Admissions Sharon Zimmerman Director of Medical Development Executive Diretor Alumni Affairs Content Editor Susan Green Copy Editor Shelby Mullins Design Marie Graham Kari Gunter-Seymour Photography Leonardo Carrizo Tim Creamer John Sattler Writers and Contributors Anita Martin Mary Reed Jared Rutecki Carla Saavedra-Santiago Tracey Thomas Andrew Tillotson Administration Roderick McDavis, Ph.D President, Ohio University A New Osteopathic Oath Recently, the Ohio Board of Regents commissioned the Robert Graham Center to perform a physician workload analysis for Ohio. The report showed that approximately 62 percent of OU-COM graduates practice in Ohio—by far the most successful medical school in the state. This compares to 42 percent of all the Ohio medical schools combined. It also showed that D.O.s are more likely to practice in underserved areas of the state. What explains these findings? While there are a number of factors, I believe the primary reason for our success is the CORE training hospital consortium. The seventeen institutions that make up the CORE provide exceptional training to students who enjoy a different atmosphere from most medical schools. Our clinical faculty teach because they enjoy it, and CORE staff develop personal relationships with our students. Our clinical faculty live the osteopathic physician’s oath they took when they graduated: “To my college I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who will come after me.” Now the Ohio CORE is embarking on a new and broader mission. By 2020, it is estimated that there will be more than 95,000 active osteopathic physicians. That will be 79 percent higher than today. Recognizing the deficiency in postgraduate positions required to accommodate the large increase in graduates, the AOA has appealed to the profession to establish new postgraduate training programs. A large part of this responsibility will rest on the shoulders of the osteopathic colleges, particularly those in states with high concentrations of D.O.s, such as Ohio. The Ohio CORE is rising to the task. Medical centers all over Ohio are interested in establishing new osteopathic GME programs. CORE hospitals have put aside their individual interests to support the profession’s rapidly developing need for additional outstanding GME programs. It is exciting to watch the CORE grow in size, stature and quality. No wonder so many OU-COM students elect to stay in Ohio. As the premiere postgraduate training institution in the United States, the CORE provides osteopathic physicians an unparalleled environment in which to train and practice. The CORE hospitals have clearly adopted a variant to the osteopathic oath: “To our profession we will be loyal and strive always for its best interests.” I couldn’t be prouder of them. Dean’s Message John Brose, D.O. Dean, College of Osteopathic Medicine Karoline Lane Director, Office of Communication Opinions expressed in Today’s D.O. are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect viewpoints of the editors or official policy of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Jack Brose, D.O. Dean, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine © ’07 Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Address updates for Today’s D.O. should be referred to Sheila Bycofski OU-COM, 332 Grosvenor Hall Athens, OH 45701 phone: (740) 593-2346 e-mail: bycofski@ohio.edu www.oucom.ohio.edu 2 oucom.ohio. www. edu
On Campus “…a gem in the neediest setting” This is how Joe Hallet, a senior editor at The Columbus Dispatch, described OU-COM in an editorial he wrote after a campus visit in February. In the photo below right, John Schriner, Ph.D., director of admissions, points out OU-COM’s Parks Hall clinic to Hallet during a campus tour. Hallet lived in Parks Hall as an Ohio University student more than 35 years ago In his editorial, Hallet wrote about the tough funding situation in Ohio for higher education and the reality that every college “soon may have to prove its worth to obtain state funding. That challenge is not feared by Dr. Jack Brose … His medical school is attracting the best and the brightest – 3,200 applicants for 100 first-year slots in 2006 – in the state’s poorest and medically neediest region.” Thanks to Dean Jack Brose, D.O., and college advocacy efforts, government constituents are getting the same message that 54 percent of OU-COM alumni practice in primary care fields, and more than 60 percent remain in Ohio, where they are more likely to practice in rural and other physician-shortage areas. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Representative Jimmy Stewart, OHIO President Roderick McDavis and Eric Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, toured campus in April, where they spoke to Dean Brose aboard OU-COM’s mobile health clinic, top and above right. State Senator Steve Stivers, and his brother Alan, also visited the college this spring. Here, left, they look at plasticized models with Dean Brose in the anatomy lab. Stivers is vice chair of the Senate’s Finance and Financial Institutions committee. -Karoline Lane summer/fall 2007 3
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