DO - Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Opportunities
With 32 active donor-generated scholarships,
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
alumni, friends and colleagues have established
an impressive giving legacy. On average, OU-COM
presents approximately $100,000 annually in
awards that range from $500 to $10,000 per
recipient. The amount depends on the supporting
fund’s value. Fortunately for future generations
of medical students, most of the funds are endowed
and, therefore, perpetual.
Want to be a donor? Consider creating a
scholarship or contributing to any of the existing
scholarship funds supporting OU-COM students.
Scholarship descriptions vary according to donors’
wishes and, when designated, the needs of the
college. Here are a few examples:
• Charles “Chip” Rogers Tribute Scholarship
is relatively new. It was created by friends, family
and colleagues of Rogers upon his retirement and
in honor of his 28-year career with OU-COM. The
college chooses the criteria annually depending
on what will most benefit the class pool. This
flexibility makes the Rogers Fund particularly
beneficial in attracting students to OU-COM who
otherwise would go to schools that are less
expensive or have more scholarships to offer.
• Jerry A. Zinni, D.O., Memorial Scholarship
annually supports four students from northeastern
Ohio and honors Zinni, who was founder and
principal leader of Richmond Heights (Ohio)
General Hospital. The fund was established
through the generosity of the Northeastern Ohio
HealthCare Foundation.
• Walter J. Costello, Ph.D., Scholarship
pays tribute to Costello, an OU-COM professor
of microanatomy, who died in 1998 at age 52.
During 2002, thanks to his many friends and
colleagues, the Costello Memorial Fund reached
endowment level for students with academic
merit in the Patient-Centered Curriculum program.
• Bernard Master, D.O., Scholarship was
established by Master of Worthington, Ohio, in the
early 1990s. Today, 30-plus students have benefited
from this award and continue to fulfill his interest
of encouraging our medical students to pursue
careers in urban medically underserved areas.
–Susan Lash Blanchard
Library Makes House Calls
S
tudents and faculty won’t always have to trudge up the Richland
Avenue hill to do their research. The library has come to them.
In October, the Ohio University Health Sciences Library at Alden Library
opened a satellite in Irvine Hall to help students and faculty at Ohio
University College of Osteopathic Medicine with research, including mining
online databases.
“We thought it would add some value to OU-COM to have a small office
here,” said Cheryl Ewing, director of the Health Sciences Library at Alden.
Librarians staffing the satellite include Medical Reference and Instruction
Librarian Susan Foster-Harper, Health Science Reference and Community
Outreach Librarian Debi Orr and Biology Librarian Whitney Winberg.
Ewing also spends time at the facility. The librarians generally rotate in
for half-day stints, ensuring the office is staffed throughout the day.
The librarians will travel to OU-COM offices; they arrive equipped with
wireless laptops to give one-on-one help exploring the Internet for
research resources.
At other times, the librarians serve drop-ins. “There’s a lot of traffic and a
variety of people coming to see us,” Foster-Harper says. That includes the
whole gamut at OU-COM: students, clinical instructors, faculty members
and staff.
“I don’t think (most people) know the wonders of the medical database,”
Ewing says. “Our role as librarians is not only to find the good information
but to help people find it on their own.”
–Jennifer Kowalewski
Wayne Carlsen, D.O., takes advantage of a library “house call”
from librarian Susan Foster-Harper in between donating blood
and heading for the hospital.
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