RT WELCOME PARTY
- It's welcome week 2002! All 39
respiratory therapy students are invited, and those enrolled
in RespTher 595 are required to attend, a party at 1:30 pm on
Friday, September 27 in room 440 of Atwell Hall. Pizza and
soft drinks will be provided. This is a great opportunity to
meet other students enrolled in the program, to get a free
lunch, and to learn "What the junior year is really
like" from those who have experienced it.
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- FALL SEMINARS
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- A career exploration seminar is
being offered for senior students, and a professional
orientation seminar is offered for all new respiratory therapy
students. Both seminars meet at 1:30 on Fridays. The senior
seminar provides the opportunity to explore a variety of
career options through dialogue with professionals with
diverse career paths and current positions. The orientation
seminar introduces students to professional organizations and
a variety of professional issues.
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- RT WEBSITE & NEWSLETTER
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- Explore http://www.amp.osu.edu/RT.
A streamlined design, a new senior bank, and more pages have
been added to the division website. For current students, each
course has a page; links to clinical affiliates have been
added to the clinical education network, and more helpful RT
links were added. The alumni email network continues to grow,
and for prospective students, more academic and career
information is available.
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- Alumni, students, and friends of
the RT Division are invited to provide news for the quarterly
newsletter or suggestions on the RT
website to RT@amp.osu.edu.
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- CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! !
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- ............to the senior
students who have successfully completed the accredited
portion of their baccalaureate degree program and earned a
certificate of completion, certification and licensure
eligibility.
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- ............to the recently
certified therapists of the Class of 2002.
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- ............to the first-ever
freshman student admitted directly to respiratory therapy.
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- .............to our newest
tenure-track instructor.
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- HOBERTY GOES TO NC
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- Associate Professor Phil Hoberty
will be attending the Annual Meeting of the American
Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, September 26-28. He will be
presenting a research poster of "Improvement in
Health-Related Quality of Life Is Different for Cardiac and
Pulmonary Rehabilitation" based on scores on the Medical
Outcomes Study SF-36. He will also be presenting a lecture
entitled "Outcomes Methodology: Evaluating Program
Effectiveness."
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- AGENCY NEWS
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- From CoARC: Based upon 2001
annual report, the Respiratory Therapy Division exceeded all
"thresholds" for success on each of the required
outcome measures and has been awarded accreditation through
2008.
- From NBRC: While new candidate
pass rates on CRT and RRT exams hover between 57% and 86%, OSU
students and graduates are continuing at 88% and 100% passing.
Go Bucks!
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