A Note from Dean Cavalieri
Our annual White Coat Ceremony is a longstanding tradition at RowanSOM and certainly one of the most exciting days of the academic year, especially for our newest class of student physicians and their families. While the beginning of every school year is an exciting time on campus, we also learned this month of two major federal grants to help us further our mission to train the next generation of clinically skillful, compassionate and culturally competent physicians.
My best,
Thomas A. Cavalieri, DO, MACOI, FACP
Dean
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Class of 2021 Welcomed at White Coat Ceremony
The Class of 2021 was officially welcomed to SOM on Sunday, August 6 in the Pfleeger Auditorium on Rowan's main campus in Glassboro. Before the ceremony began, students and their families had the opportunity to chat and get to know their classmates over a continental breakfast.
This year's keynote speaker and the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient was Dr. Linda Boyd, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. SOM Student Council President Tammer Raouf also spoke to his fellow students, providing them four "L" words to remember: Learn, Lead, Leave (the library) and Lift (one another).
The Gold Humanism Honor Society induction followed the ceremony, welcoming 21 members of the Class of 2018 and three faculty. The Society is an international association dedicated to foster, recognize and support the values of humanism and professionalism in medicine.
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Students Participate in Orientation Week Activities
The Class of 2021 participated in a variety of activities designed to promote collaboration and collegiality during Orientation Week, August 7 to 11. The activities, including a team building exercise, provided opportunities for students to learn more about their classmates for the next four years.
The week culminated with SOM community members lending a hand at four sites in our area: South Jersey Food Bank, Voorhees Pediatric Facility, Urban Promise and Robin's Nest. Students and staff assisted with a variety of tasks, including unpacking donated items and stocking food pantries; providing one-on-one interaction with medically fragile children; preparing an urban space for a community garden; painting a home to serve future residents; and preparing a mailing for an annual fundraiser.
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Congressman Norcross Announces Large Federal Grant for SOM
Earlier this month, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-1) announced that the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the first year of a five-year, $1.5 million grant to the RowanSOM to continue administering the New Jersey Area Health Education Centers in South Jersey. Under the direction of Dr. Joshua Coren, chair of Family Medicine, the project will seek to increase the number of health professions students who will pursue careers in primary care and are prepared to practice in rural and underserved areas of the state.
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Grant to Study Opioid Misuse in High-risk Women in NJ
Hard work and a great team effort between Family Medicine and the NMI has resulted in RowanSOM receiving one of 16 grants awarded by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women's Health for programs targeting opioid misuse and overdose prevention among high-risk women in New Jersey. The three-year, $100,000 award will fund initiatives that teach students and physicians how to identify and screen women and girls who are at high risk for opioid misuse and respond accordingly.
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Dr. Millicent Channell Teaches OMM at Chinese Universities
 Dr. Millicent Channell, Professor, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) and Assistant Dean for Curriculum, recently returned from an overseas visit teaching OMM at two Chinese universities, Shanghai University of Traditional Medicine and Suzhou University. Dr. Channell was joined on the trip by Dr. David Mason, the co-author of her book,The 5-Minute Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Consult. In addition to their OMM workshops, the physician-authors signed copies of the book at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where their host colleague translated the text from English to Chinese.
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Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Classrooms Receive New Look
The Problem-Based Learning Curriculum (PBLC) classrooms recently relocated to their new home in the University Educational Center. The classrooms are equipped to support the two-year PBLC curricular track.
Problem-Based Learning is the learning that results from the process of working toward the understanding and resolution of a problem. In the PBLC, the problems students encounter are those of actual patient cases, which present in a variety of formats. The patient problems serve as the stimulus for acquiring the basic science knowledge needed to understand underlying mechanisms, as well as the focus for the development of clinical reasoning skills.
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Ice Cream Mixer Features Mister Softee
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Upcoming Events
Saturday, September 16
11:00 am lunch; 12:30 pm shotgun start
Riverwinds Golf & Tennis Club, West Deptford, NJ
Annual General Faculty Meeting
Tuesday, September 26
5:00 pm
Academic Center, Multipurpose Room
SOM Alumni Reception at AOA OMED
Monday, October 9
5:30 pm
Hard Rock Café, Philadelphia, PA
Rowan University Homecoming
Saturday, October 14
11:00 am
Glassboro Campus
Calling All Angels Gala
Benefits CARES Institute
Thursday, October 19
6:00 pm
Lucien's Manor, Berlin, NJ
Commit to Fit 5K
Saturday, October 21
Time TBD
Glassboro Campus
Fall Alumni Association Board Meeting
Thursday, October 26
6:00 pm
Academic Center, Room 276
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