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CORE News CORE Receives Commendations The Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE), a medical education consortium that includes the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM), 14 teaching hospitals and three affiliated colleges of osteopathic medicine, received two commendations during the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) on-site inspection in February. AOA inspectors commended the CORE for its three-year osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) clinical curriculum and for the research initiatives it has undertaken in the past three years. “The CORE has been described by many in our profession as ‘the gold standard’ in graduate medical education,” Jack Brose, D.O., OU-COM dean, says. “That reputation has been reinforced by this visit.” “It was a spotless inspection,” Keith Watson, D.O., chief academic officer for CORE and OU-COM associate dean for graduate medical education, said. “We hope to be one of the first Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institutes (OPTI) to achieve a five-year accreditation award.” AOA inspections are required to reaccredit the CORE as an OPTI. Although AOA can reaccredit an OPTI for up to five years, OPTIs have been receiving reaccreditation for three and a half years on average according to a 2002 survey by Scott Dalhouse, the OPTI manager of the AOA department of education. Cheryl Riley, R.N., M.S., assistant dean for academic affairs and CORE operations, explained that CORE met all but one minor standard regarding sign-offs on conflict of interest statements. “And that’s easily corrected, virtually with a stroke of the pen.” Riley, whose association with the CORE extends to its very beginning, credited the hospitals and their collaborative relationship for innovations in the curriculum. “I’ve watched enormous change in both predoctoral and postdoctoral osteopathic medical education as program directors from all over Ohio have met regularly over the years to share best practices and troubleshoot issues,” Riley said. The osteopathic profession is currently tackling challenges in graduate medical education (GME). At an inaugural medical education summit held last January sponsored by the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, the AOA and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, over 70 leaders met to identify and examine osteopathic GME. They also began to develop strategies to respond to those issues. Watson chaired the summit’s steering committee (see “Noteworthy,” page 4). “We do face tough issues ahead in educating the doctors of tomorrow,” Watson explains. “The trend among students to move away from osteopathic GME programs, the question of a physician shortage, the shortage of GME funding, perceptions of quality in osteopathic GME programs, the lower priority of research in osteopathic medical education–these are just a few of the issues being discussed nationally. We need to be ready to respond in the CORE.” Riley says the CORE system will continue making improvements–plans are already underway to expand the OMM clinical curriculum to the residency years–using what it has learned from the on-site survey and the self-study, which OU-COM completed before the site visit. –Jennifer Kowalewski Grandview Receives Three Top Honors Grandview Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, has just won the equivalent of a hospital triple crown-three times over. In February, Grandview landed on the coveted Solucient 100 Top Hospitals list for teaching hospitals for its third time. It is one of only 25 hospitals in the nation to receive the designation. This came after winning, for the third year in a row, the Health Grades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence. Only 5 percent of the more than 5,000 hospitals in the nation receive this honor. For a third year also, Grandview was ranked in the top 50 of U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals. It placed 44th in the Respiratory Disorders category and in the Neurology and Neurosurgery category. 32 www.oucom.ohio.edu
Grandview Hospital, with 450 beds, is the flagship of Grandview Medical Center's facilities and a Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE) site. “It's pretty exciting for a hospital in Dayton to be ranked with the Mayo Clinics and the Johns Hopkins of the world,” Craig Self, director business development, Grandview and Southview Hospitals, says. To arrive at their rankings, the ratings organizations look at various clinical outcomes–such as Medicare-reported morbidity, mortality and length of stay–and financial indicators, operational data and growth. In large part, a “very aggressive quality improvement process” is responsible for the national recognition the medical center receives, according to Self. Peter A. Bell, D.O., assistant dean for the CORE sites in Dayton and Columbus, believes the honors played a role in the record number of internship applications that Grandview received this year. “We've had so many medical students wanting to come here for their internships. We doubled our numbers,” he says. “Residents, interns and medical students who come here are a critical part of this success, Self says. “They learn how we attain high quality standards at Grandview and are able to understand and adopt them. It makes for better education and stronger osteopathic medicine in the nation in general,” he says –Sally Linder CORE Celebrated its 10th Anniversary During its April Board Meeting More than 50 hospital executives, CORE representatives, and Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine faculty and staff members gathered in Pickerington, Ohio, where they commemorated three individuals and ten hospitals for their founding roles in the CORE. CORE Assistant DeanNamed Cheryl Riley, R.N., M.S., assistant dean for academic affairs and CORE operations, was one of three individuals who were awarded a Crystal Apple, the highest honor bestowed upon those who have given above and beyond in the call of CORE duty. (Left to right) Jack Brose, D.O., dean, OU-COM; Keith Watson, D.O., chief academic officer for CORE and OU-COM associate dean for graduate medical education; Riley; and Roy G. Chew, Ph.D., president of Grandview Medical Center and chairman of the CORE board. Andrew Culver, D.O. (‘99), has been named CORE assistant dean at Doctors Hospital of Stark County. Culver has been the acting assistant dean since November 2005. Christopher Meyer, D.O., and Richard Vincent, president, Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, also received Crystal Apples in honor of their roles as the founding chairmen of the CORE board. summer 2006 33
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