Areas Of Distinction Millicent King Channell, DO, MA, FAAO Professor of OMM and Family Medicine Assistant Dean for Curriculum

What are AoDs? Focused curricular areas of interest Elective curricular components Do not appear on the student’s transcript Are recognized and included on the student’s MSPE (Deans) letter Require significant organization and dedication on the part of the student to complete and maintain records

Current Areas of Distinction (AoD’s) Humanism in Medicine – Dr. Moore (moorer@rowan.edu) Geriatrics -- TBA OMM – Dr. Cooley (cooleydl@rowan.edu) Cultural Competency – Dr. O’Dell (garciaxi@rowan.edu) Psychiatry – Dr. Forsberg (forsbemm@rowan.edu) Women’s Health – Dr. Garnier (garnieka@rowan.edu) & Dr. Olson (troutmam@rowan.edu) Health Coaching – Dr. Gupta (guptaad@rowan.edu)

Why should I complete an AoD? Relative to the chosen discipline, you would receive: Increased education and competence Expanded mentoring Demonstration of dedication for your residency application

What Do I Have To Do To Have An AoD? As designated by the particular AoD, students must complete: Didactics In-Person or On-line Community Service Scholarly Work except in the case where the total amount of hours served are equal to or exceed the amount required for both Areas of Distinction.” Additionally, our students participate in the TOUCH program, which is designed to promote medical students to be involved in community service.

What Do I Have To Do To Have An AoD? Limitations of AoD components Components of AoDs cannot include any already required components our the RowanSOM curriculum. Requirements for individual AoDs are listed on each Class BlackBoard page under Areas of Distinction except in the case where the total amount of hours served are equal to or exceed the amount required for both Areas of Distinction.” Additionally, our students participate in the TOUCH program, which is designed to promote medical students to be involved in community service.

Translating Osteopathic Understanding into Community Health (TOUCH) TOUCH stands for “Translating Osteopathic Understanding into Community Health.”   Started by COSGP to encourage osteopathic medical student involvement in community service activities  

Community Service Any hours of community service must be logged through the TOUCH site: (See last slide) Any hours of community service completed for Areas of Distinction can be submitted for the TOUCH hours Community service completed at an approved site for an Area of Distinction CANNOT be submitted for the required community service hours for another Area of Distinction Clarification: In the case where the total amount of hours served are equal to or exceed the amount required for both Areas of Distinction the excess number of hours maybe counted towards the 2nd AoD

Scholarly Work Topics and structure for scholarly work must be pre-approved by the academic advisor for the AoD no less than 6 months prior to the end of 3rd year but may be greater as designated by the AoD Advisor. Additional timelines for scholarly work shall be designated by the Advisor Final approval of the scholarly work is left to the Advisor

Didactic Work Students are responsible for ensuring proof of their attendance or completion of components as designated by the AoD or its Advisor Sign-In sheets Will be maintained by Curriculum Program Assistant (Courtney Pitt) for RowanSOM Stratford campus only Will not be maintained for outside didactic including Glassboro campuses

Didactics (Cont’d) Students must retrieve and maintain for final portfolio Online certificates as designated by the AoD Attending signatures on logs for didactic sessions as designated by AoD Pre-approval by advisor of all didactics not explicitly listed in the AoD Notification to the Curriculum Program Assistant (Courtney Pitt) of pre- approval of all RowanSOM campus didactics at least 3 business days in advance of the event Other proof or requirements as designated the Advisor for didactics

Additional Timelines for AoDs Students are encouraged to contact the AoD advisor and the Curriculum Program Assistant (Courtney Pitt) as soon as they know they intend to complete an AoD All FINALIZED components of the AoD portfolio must be completed and submitted to the AoD Advisor by the last day of 3rd year (academic year)

Who Maintains the Records Of My Work? Student AoD Advisor Curriculum Program Assistant Pre-Approvals Community Service Scholarly work Didactics Finalized portfolio until submitted to Curriculum Program Assistant RowanSOM Pre-approved Didactics Sign-In Sheets TOUCH Logs Finalized Portfolio as submitted by the AoD Advisor Proof of Didactics as previously noted Scholarly Work Copy of Finalized Portfolio

Who should I contact with questions? AoD Advisor Curriculum Program Assistant For most things Notify when you intend to complete their AoD Obtain Pre-approval of didactics not explicitly listed in AoD Obtain Pre-Approval for scholarly work including drafts and timeline Confirmation that you have met the requirements for the AoD Anything unclear in the AoD Rarely Notify when you intend to complete their AoD Email at least 3 business days in advance of any RowanSOM didactics after receiving pre- approval of didactics not explicitly listed in AoD Only if unable to reach Advisor by email for at least one week

Questions, Comments, Concerns

Logging TOUCH hours Print a paper form and have it signed by the community service coordinator: http://www.rowan.edu/som/stucoweb/documents/TouchForm2015- 20162.pdf   Log-on to a National data site and log in their hours: http://www.rowan.edu/som/stucoweb/documents/NationalTOUCHSubmissionAp plication-StudentInfo1.pdf Students using this site need to create a Profile. The paper logs are submitted to the student class TOUCH coordinator at the end of they year and approved. National awards are given at the end of each school year for students serving more than 50 hours in a given year. TOUCH hours are mostly awarded in the first and second year.