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Most individuals in the field of academic advising know Virginia Gordon through the dedicated and transformative work she did for NACADA. Less well known is the equally creative and transformative work she engaged in for most of her professional life at Ohio State University. This article addresses how her ideas and convictions about academic advising became the blueprint for how she created advising programs at Ohio State's University College from the mid-1970s to her retirement in the mid-1990s. The work she did during that time anticipated many of the ideas and practices adopted later by the academic advising field.

Presents the prize-winning essays on the topic `What the OCLC Online Union Catalog Means to me,' which was part of a tribute to mark the 25th anniversary of WorldCat, the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) organization's Online Union Catalog in Dublin, Ohio. Prizes offered to winners; Entries which the contest attracted.

Objective: To describe the role of the pharmacist as a salaried physician extender in a private practice diabetes management clinic.Setting: Columbus, Ohio.Practice Description: Private suburban family medicine office practice.Practice Innovation: Clinical pharmacy physician-extender practice in a private medical office and direct compensation to pharmacist.Interventions: Not applicable.Main Outcome Measure: Financial reimbursement for providing pharmaceutical care; improvement in disease outcomes; pharmacist and student pharmacist satisfaction.Results: Family medicine physicians hired a pharmacist to extend their diabetes care for complex metabolic syndrome patients and other patients with diabetes who had therapy management problems. The pharmacist, working with student pharmacists, develops treatment plans for drug therapy, nutrition, exercise, and foot care that are reviewed and approved by the managing physician and implemented by the pharmacist and other office staff. More than 260 patients have been referred and managed by the practice with favorable results. The pharmacist is reimbursed as an employee and the practice receives revenue for the pharmacist's practice.Conclusion: Working in a private physician office practice provides a unique means of providing pharmaceutical care with reimbursement for the pharmacist. INSET: AT A GLANCE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This first part of a two-part paper on the John A. Roebling suspension bridge (1867) across the Ohio River is an analytical investigation, whereas Part II focuses on the experimental investigation of the bridge. The primary objectives of the investigation are to assess the bridge’s load-carrying capacity and compare this capacity with current standards of safety. Dynamics-based evaluation is used, which requires combining finite-element bridge analysis and field testing. A 3D finite-element model is developed to represent the bridge and to establish its deformed equilibrium configuration due to dead loading. Starting from the deformed configuration, a modal analysis is performed to provide the frequencies and mode shapes. Transverse vibration modes dominate the low-frequency response. It is demonstrated that cable stress stiffening plays an important role in both the static and dynamic responses of the bridge. Inclusion of large deflection behavior is shown to have a limited effect on the member forces and bridge deflections. Parametric studies are performed using the developed finite-element model. The outcome of the investigation is to provide structural information that will assist in the preservation of the historic John A. Roebling suspension bridge, though the developed methodology could be applied to a wide range of cable-supported bridges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND. Many physicians today are employed by another physician, group, hospital, HMO, or other organization. However, the differences in the characteristics, practice patterns, and patient outcomes of self-employed and employed physicians are not well understood. METHODS. The practices of 108 community family physicians in northeast Ohio were assessed using a multimethod cross-sectional design. Physician characteristics were assessed by questionnaire. Direct observation of 3536 consecutive patient visits was used to measure time use and the delivery of preventive services recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force. Patient satisfaction was assessed with the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) 9-item Visit Rating Form. RESULTS. Employed physicians were more likely to be female, in group practice, work fewer hours, and see fewer patients. Job satisfaction was similar between the two groups, but employed physicians reported greater satisfaction with leisure and family time. Employed physicians spent more time per patient visit, scheduled a larger percentage of well-care visits, and were more likely to refer to specialists. Employed physicians also spent a greater proportion of their patients' visit time performing history-taking and eliciting family information, and a lesser proportion of time on physical examination, planning treatment, providing health education, and chatting. Recommended screening and health habits counseling preventive services were more likely to be delivered by employed physicians. Patient satisfaction was similar for the two groups. CONCLUSIONS. Primary care physician characteristics and practice patterns differ by employment status. The consequences of the trend toward a largely employed physician workforce as reported in this study should be carefully considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the pre-service and in-service teachers' educational reform program of the University of Toledo College of Education in Toledo, Ohio. The author informs that the program aims to develop teachers capable of educational decision making through the operation, development and organization of an educational change program. The educational change program incorporates three basic elements: implementation of multiunit schools, promotion of individually guided education, and the development of competency-based teacher training programs.

The article discusses the philosophy underlying the successful competency-based teacher education program at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. The program offers the university, parochial schools and public with the chance to train pre- and in-service teachers. A comprehensive educational reform-renewal strategy was developed for a city and surrounding region, and the educational institutions therein. It emphasizes field work that is related to the real world of teaching in classrooms. The College of Education attempts to assist schools participating with the program to create instructional curricula that meet known personal differences of learners through individualized instruction.

Part I. Examines data from the Direct Observation of Primary Care study on visits to family physicians in Northern Ohio. Evidence of a strong focus on the family in family practice; Preference of the same physician by family members of established patients; Importance of time-efficient methods for recording family histories.

Objectives: To determine whether family physicians provide different ambulatory care to patients with health insurance from managed care organization (MCO) versus fee-for-service (FFS) plans., Study Design: Multimethod cross-sectional observational study., Patients and Methods: A total of 4454 patients made office visits to 138 family physicians in northeastern Ohio. Direct observation with the Davis Observation Code and a structured checklist were used to assess the process of care. Patient satisfaction was measured with the Medical Outcomes Study 9-Item Visit Rating Form., Results: Among 1588 patients with MCO insurance and 876 with FFS insurance, no differences were noted in the number of visits per year, length of visits, percentage of visits for well care, or the percentage of visits in which medicines were prescribed in analyses controlling for patient mix. Visits by patients with MCO insurance were more likely to involve referrals to another physician than visits by patients with FFS insurance. Patient satisfaction and time use during visits were comparable for the 2 groups., Conclusions: Managed care insurance appears to increase involvement of the primary care provider in the referral process. However, in a healthcare market with moderate managed care penetration in which the same physicians see patients with different types of insurance, the process of care is affected little by type of insurance coverage.