Welcome Emily Myers - new instructor

As an Assistant Director for the Center for Academic Technology, Educational Resources & Instructional Design at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, Emily Myers manages a team of instructional designers and instructional technologists to partner with faculty from the online MSN and DNP programs to create innovative online learning using Blackboard, Canvas, and iTunes U. Additionally, she works with onsite BSN faculty to design and develop instruction that incorporates active learning strategies using the iPad. The team also provides faculty professional development opportunities focused on leveraging technology to integrate active learning into both the face-to-face and virtual classroom.

Emily holds a Master of Science in Education with a focus in Instructional Design and Technology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She is also a certified Adobe Education Trainer and Apple Learning Academy Specialist. Prior to working as an instructional designer, she was a special education teacher in Virginia Beach City Public Schools for six years. In this setting, she worked to provide innovative and individualized instruction for learners with a variety of needs and ability levels.

Emily will be teaching CI7083 Instructional Design and Technology in Medical Education starting summer 2019.

Welcome Ashley Vaughn

We would like to welcome Ashley Vaughn as a new instructor in the program. Ashley will be teaching EDST8034 Measurement & Assessment.

Ashley is a developmental and educational psychologist and mixed methods researcher from the University of Cincinnati where she will complete her PhD late this spring. Her research focuses on conceptual change, motivation, and STEM education. Ashley is a former secondary science teacher who holds a BS in Natural Science and MA in Education from Mount St. Joseph University, and MS in Biology from University of St. Joseph. She additionally holds graduate certificates in developmental and learning sciences, assessment and evaluation, and emerging diseases. When not focused on research, Ashley coordinates STEM enrichment programming for local at-risk youth, advocates for women in higher education, conducts genealogy research, and spends time with her family.

New travel reimbursement benefit available

Recognizing, supporting and encouraging scholarship within our program is important to our overall program goals. To help support current students and graduates within the past year who are presenting at a national or international conference on a project that came out of a program course or their final master’s project, we are making available a limited number of travel awards, up to $300 each, to help offset costs that are not otherwise reimbursed or funded.

Eligibility and Limitations

Students and recent alumni who meet the following criteria could apply for funding up to $300.

• You must be a current student, in good standing, or a graduate within the past year.
• Your presentation must be at a national or international conference on an outcome from one of your courses in the program or from your final master’s project.
• The funds you request, up to $300, can be for registration and/or travel costs that will not be reimbursed or paid by your home institution or another funding source.
• If you are Cincinnati Children’s faculty and staff, the payment cannot replace or offset divisional funds, pro funds, grant funds, or other sources of travel funding, or cover travel costs in excess of hospital travel expense guidelines.

Cost and restrictions

Please keep the following in mind:

• Students cannot receive more than one award in a fiscal year (July 1 – June 30).
• Students cannot receive more than two awards in total.
• A maximum of 10 awards totaling up to $3000 will be awarded in any single fiscal year.

Process

Prior to your presentation at the conference, submit the request form to the program coordinator.

The request will be reviewed for eligibility by program faculty, and you will be emailed acceptance or denial or a request for additional information if needed.

We ask that you share a copy of your presentation with us.

After the presentation, submit detailed receipt(s) for the expense. Payment will be made after receipt of the proof of expense.

Congratulations Fall 2016 Graduates!

Congratulations Graduates!

Our Fall 2016 graduating class included three from the master's program and four from the certificate program. Congratulations to everyone!

Certificate

• Matthew Hirschfeld - University of Rochester Medical Center
• Alexzandra Hollingworth - HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center
• Heather Pim - University of Montreal
• Annette Rebel - University of Kentucky

Masters

• Christopher Bugnitz - Dayton Children's Hospital
• Amanda Heitzman - Cincinnati University Hospital
• Deborah Kroeker - University of Kansas School of Medicine

Welcome Melanie Bauer

We'd like to welcome Melanie Bauer as an instructor for CI7083 Instructional Design and Technology in Medical Education class starting Spring 2017.

As a senior instructional designer at the UC College of Nursing, Melanie is responsible for partnering with faculty to design and develop courses in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and post-graduate certificate online programs.

As part of the college’s iPad Initiative, she also collaborates with faculty in the on-site Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs to redesign course content for delivery via iTunes U and multi-touch books developed with iBooks Author, as well as to plan app-based learning activities and assignments. She also works closely with the Center for Academic Technologies and Educational Resources (CATER) to provide faculty professional development on leveraging technology to integrate active learning in the classroom.

Melanie holds a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction with a focus in instructional design and technology, a Bachelor of Science in secondary education, a Bachelor of Arts in French, and a professional certificate in business French, all from the University of Cincinnati. In 2015, she was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator and a UC eLearning Champion.

In addition to teaching in our program, Melanie teaches a course on instructional technology for learning-centered teaching in the Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education program. She is also pursing a second master’s degree in health education and promotion, with a focus in exercise and fitness.

Congratulation Spring 2016 Graduates!

Congratulations to our Spring 2016 Graduates:

Certificate

• Shelly Ben Harush Negari - Shaare Zedek Medical Center
• Mackenzie Frost - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Maria Gillam-Krakauer - Vanderbilt University
• Brook Hubner - The University of Alabama
• Allison Meiwald - Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
• Alexandra Muccilli - University of Montreal
• Jaime Taylor - Indiana University School of Medicine

 

Masters

• Alice Chuang-Ivester - University of North Carolina
• Cathleen Cook - East Tennessee State University/St. Jude Tri-Cities Affiliate Clinic
• Alan Cooper - Willumstad School of Business, Adelphia University
• Mia Mallory - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Matt Miles - Wake Forest School of Medicine
• Aarti Patel - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Ajit Sarnaik - Children’s Hospital of Michigan/Detroit Medical Center
• Claire Stewart - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Adam Vukovic - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• Stephen Warrick - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

 

Welcome Dr. Pam Dillion

We welcome Dr. Pam Dillion as a new instructor, teaching EDST8034 Measurement & Assessment, beginning Summer 2016.


Pam is the Director of Student Services at St. Ursula Villa where she consults with teachers and designs support programs to help students with learning differences to be successful in a rigorous curriculum. Her areas of research interest are learning differences, assessment and measurement, and alternative treatment options for ADHD.

She earned a BA in psychology and secondary education from Muskingum University, an MA in school psychology from Xavier University, and an Ed.D. in Special Education and Literacy from the University of Cincinnati. Her doctoral program included a 650 hour internship in an interdisciplinary training program in developmental disabilities at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She holds both teaching and principal licenses from the state of Ohio. She has worked as an early intervention specialist for Hamilton County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, a behavior specialist for Cincinnati Public School District, and a learning disabilities teacher for Forest Hills School District.

Pam has taught a variety of courses at Notre Dame College in the TEEL Program over the last 12 years. TEEL was designed for individuals who held a degree in a field other than education but desired to earn a teaching license. Her experience in teaching adult learners in an online format makes this program a perfect fit with her experience.

Congratulations to Melissa Klein for 2016 APA Faculty Teaching Award!

Melissa Klein, MD, MEd,  co-director for the Online Medical Education programs for physicians and health care professionals, was awarded the 2016 Academic Pediatric Association Mid-Level Faculty Teaching Award. The award recognizes excellence in teaching among APA members.

In addition to serving as the medical director for our program, Melissa is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Director of the General Pediatric Master Educator Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Receiving the award was based on the following:

Melissa’s passion for teaching began in grade school and she has consistently been recognized for her stellar teaching skills. She is a patient-centered teacher and actively pursues teachable moments with her learners. One of her trainees stated, "Whenever Dr. Klein is in clinic, I know the first thing she is going to ask when I come out of the room is what did we learn from the patient."  She has committed her scholarly career to educating others about the impact of the social determinants of health on children. Her passion for this topic continues at a national level as a part of her work on the APA’s task force on child poverty. At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, she directs many of the educational activities for general pediatrics and has created one of the first General Pediatric Master Educator Fellowship training programs while also working as the co-director for the University of Cincinnati Masters of Education program. She was a graduate of the first cohort of faculty scholars from the APA Educational Scholars Program. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Academic Pediatrics.

 

Welcome Dr. Megan Elam

We welcome Dr. Megan Elam as a new instructor, teaching EDST8034 Measurement & Assessment, beginning Summer 2016.



As a doctorally trained education specialist, researcher, and practitioner, Dr. Elam currently serves in dual roles as manager of Research and Outreach in the School Intervention Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in the College of Education.

Dr. Elam earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from UC, including a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education (English/Language Arts), master's degree in Special Education, and doctoral degree in Special Education.

Dr. Elam is deeply impassioned about working with others for greater improvement. This passion, coupled with her expertise in pedagogy, education, and training, ensures that she is well-equipped to be an instrument for change. To date, Dr. Elam has invested much of her career in improving educational outcomes for students with a chronic medical condition. Due to vacancies in legislation relative to addressing the educational needs of these students, much of her work has focused on the examination of policies and legislation and advocacy for improved mandates to advance education in this area. Through this work, she has served in numerous national leadership roles, including holding Vice President, President Elect, and Chairperson roles in professional organizations. In a relatively short period of time, Dr. Elam has become a national expert in her field, making distinct and nationally recognized advances toward transforming the educational landscape for students with a chronic condition through national presentations, publications, the development of teacher training and certification programming, and innovative research.

As a lifelong learner who is committed to advancing her professional know-how, Elam has most recently committed to improving her expertise through the pursuit of MBA coursework through the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. Each of these experiences has provided her critical opportunities to serve as an impassioned and effective leader, and to guide others to do the same.

Revision to English competency score requirement for international applicants

The minimum expected English Competency test scores have been revised for our programs. The new minimums are:

TOEFL internet-based test (iBT): 94 overall, 22 Reading, 24 Writing
IELTS: band scores of 7 overall, 7 Reading, 7 Writing

English competency test scores are generally required for those applicants whose native language is not English. Applicants who are currently living and working in an English-speaking country or have graduated from a University where the instruction is in English are exempt. A request to waive the test requirement can be made if the applicant can show moderate to high competency in academic reading and writing.

Competency is judged by test scores and all other communications with the program office, including the application essay and all email communications. If necessary, additional writing samples may be requested.

Congratulations Summer 2015 Graduates!

Certificate

• Sherif Badawy - Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
• Donna Bearden - University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Paula Meyler - Royal Columbian Hospital
• Emily Ruedinger - University of Minnesota

Masters

• Kristen Bettin - University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
  The Pediatric Night Shift Curriculum
• Francisco Fernandez - University of Cincinnati
  Value of Feedback in Learning Placement of a Subclavian Central Venous Catheter
• James Fuller - Greenville Hospital System
  Improving Attitudes and Behaviors towards Internal Medicine Grand Rounds by Incorporating the Theory of Planned Behavior
• Clair Ganal - Naval Health Center New England
  Defining and Fostering Self-Directed Learning in Pediatric Residency: The Perspective Of Pediatric Program Directors
• Nadine Gauthier - University of Ottawa
  Does Cardiac Physical Exam Teaching using a Cardiac Simulator Improve Medical Students’ Diagnostic Skills
• Shari Meyerson - Northwestern Memorial Hospital
  Validity Evidence for a Newly-Developed Simulator-Based Assessment to Evaluate Error Identification and Recovery Skills in Surgical Residents
• Michael Sikora - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Evaluation of Pediatric Anesthesia Trainee Performance during a Simulation Intervention Involving Intraoperative Neuromonitoring
• Ndidi Unaka - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  A Focus on Health Literacy: Teaching Pediatric Residents How To Write Discharge Instructions That Optimize Readability and Understandability
• Paria Wilson - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Application of the Social Ecological Model for Understanding Stressors and Coping Strategies of Pediatric Residents Related to End of Life Care

Catalyst Update

In the last newsletter, we informed you about changes to the application process beginning Fall 2016 and hinted that this was only one change coming.  The University has been undertaking the massive task of upgrading from a homegrown Student Information System (SIS) to Catalyst, the UC branding of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. Along with this, they have adopted a new Prospect Management and Application Management system (Radius). Getting these new systems to talk with each other, and with other systems and data warehouse applications that are staying in place, is a huge task. If you've been through adoption of a new large-scale EMR application, you have some idea of what is involved with changing a system that affects nearly every aspect of your business.  We'd love to believe the rollout will be smooth and seamless, but we know there will be bumps and glitches along the way.

By Fall 2016, all student data will be migrated from the current SIS to Catalyst.

How this affects our students
As Catalyst continues to be customized, we are learning little-by-little about what changes to expect. We will learn much more once the system rolls out and gets widespread testing by users.

However, we do know now that, beginning Fall 2016, all of our students will have to register for courses themselves. We will not be able to submit course registrations in bulk for our courses. This has implications for how and when we bill for our courses, and we still need to work out those specifics. So, stay tuned for lots more information to come!

Updated program handbook available

An updated program handbook for the 2015-2016 academic year is now available. You can download the current program handbook at http://bit.ly/1N7qABx.

The changes are primarily in the Application section.

Box Cloud Storage for UC Students, Faculty & Staff

The University of Cincinnati offers a free 500 GB Box cloud storage account to all students, faculty and staff. This replaces the UCFileSpace account and is a secure, full-functioned UC-hosted cloud service. It can be used to securely store and share any type of document, including course work and research data, but it is not approved for storage of data covered by HIPAA.

For more info, visit kb.uc.edu. To activate your account, visit uc.edu/ucit/box.

Google Apps for Education Accounts for Current Students

The College of Education, Criminal Justice & Human Services (CECH) offers a Google Apps for Education account for students, faculty & staff. If you currently use Google Drive with a gmail account, this would be a separate, non-commingled account (however, you can share folders and documents with your gmail account). It includes all functionality and apps except email, and it includes up to 5 TB of cloud storage. It is approved for research data, including data covered by HIPAA.

To access, sign into Google using your full UC email address and password. You will then be redirected to a second UC login, where you will login with your regular UC username and password.

If you get a message that your account is not recognized, let us know, and we'll request an account for you.

Office 365 Available with UC Student Accounts

Office 365 is included with your UC student email account and is accessed by signing into your UC student email (mail.uc.edu). It is not currently accessible through staff/faculty email, but should be at some time in the future. Office 365 gives you free limited, web-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, and more, plus 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage and a license to download a copy of the Office programs to 5 personal computer and 5 tablets.

For PC and Mac installation instructions, see www.uc.edu/ucit/students/email/Windows.html

Important Note
Student email (and Office 365) accounts do not automatically expire when you are no longer a student at the University of Cincinnati - you get to keep it as an alumni as long as you access it at least once a year.

New for Fall 2015 - Revised Statistics and Practicum Classes

We are very pleased to let you know that we are completing revising both the Statistics course and the Practicum course, effective Fall 2015.

EDST7010: Statistics I
Yan Yang is taking over this course and is rebuilding it from the ground up. The new course will be more about the “so what” of statistics and less about the “how” (although the “how” will still be there!). Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation and analysis of the statistics. We are dropping R (unless you really want to use it) and exploring various statistical analysis tools, including Excel and SPSS.

CI6075: Practicum
The Practicum is also being completely redesigned. It will still include an e-portfolio requirement, but will be broken into 3 5-week segments: 1) perspectives on leadership, 2) career planning and goals, and 3) practical teaching application and reflection. The three segments will be inter-related. These changes are based on feedback over the past few years on both this course and the program as a whole, and we expect that this new course will be more meaningful to students and applicable to their career growth.

New Application and Requirements Starting Fall 2016

As part of an extensive replacement of the entire Student Information System (SIS) at the University of Cincinnati, there is a new program application that is rolling out starting with Fall 2016. One of the procedural changes with the new application involves transcripts.

Starting with applicants for Fall 2016, we are required to review applications using only an unofficial transcript. Applicants will be required to upload their unofficial transcripts into the application. If the applicant is accepted into the program, they must then request official transcripts be sent directly. It is the University's intention to save applicants the cost of ordering official transcripts unless they are actually admitted into the program.

We have decided to transition to this new requirement prior to Fall 2016. Applicants for Spring and Summer 2016 are being encouraged to upload unofficial transcripts into their application and order official transcripts only after acceptance. During the transition period, this is not required but is strongly recommended.

Congratulations Spring 2015 Graduates

Congratulations to the following students who graduated in Spring 2015:

 

 

Certificate

• Fares Kalache - McGill University
• Amel Ahmed Sagh Haider Mohamed - Hamad Medical Corporation
• Hyunjung (Stella) Shin - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Masters

• Hilary Flint - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Discussing Serious News: Teaching Communication Skills through Role Play with Bereaved Parents
• Oriaku Kas-Osoka - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Pediatric Resident Interpersonal/Communication Skills: Do They Play a Role in Adolescent Contraception Knowledge After a Clinic Visit?
• Teresa Seto - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Educational Outcomes of Helping Babies Breathe Training at a Community Hospital in Honduras
• Karla Vaz - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  Evaluation of a Novel Educational Adherence Tool in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The NEAT Study

We now have 114 graduates from the Master's program and 63 graduates from the Certificate program!

Welcome Dr. Tony Artino as new instructor

We are excited to welcome Dr. Antony (Tony) Artino as an instructor with our program. He will be teaching CI7081 Attitude Formation & Change this Fall.

Tony is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is also the Deputy Director of their Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education, and is a Commander in the Medical Service Corps of the US Navy.

Tony earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MS in Physiology from Colorado State, an MS in Instructional Systems from Florida State, and his PhD in Educational Psychology (Cognition & Instruction) from the University of Connecticut.

Tony has taught a variety of courses since 2000 at the Uniformed Services University, the University of Connecticut, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Walden University. He is also plays a leadership role in a number of medical and healthcare education organizations, and he serves on the editorial boards of several journals in education and medicine.