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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Fyi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jw<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0F243E'>Dr. J. Webster Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>President, National Federation of the Blind of Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>PO Box 458 Athens, OH 45701<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>740-592-6326<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>“Changing what it means to be blind”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>For more information go to nfbohio.org<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Witte, Ann C. [mailto:Ann.Witte@osumc.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> jwsmithnfb@frontier.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Training medical students at OSU -- please help!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings, Dr. J. Webster Smith! <u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My name is Ann Witte, and I am a program assistant for a new program within the Nisonger Center in OSU’s Medical Center. Here is a little info about the effort of our program: we are recruiting people with disabilities to help medical students feel more comfortable with patients who have disabilities and, we hope, provide better care. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The OSU medical school is revising the entire 4 year undergraduate medical curriculum, and we want to make sure that the treatment of patients with disabilities is adequately addressed. We are trying to build an army of volunteers with disabilities to convince the medical school that there are people with disabilities in the community who are ready and willing to help. While we do not know what activities the curriculum revision will contain, we would like to see both formal and informal opportunities for students to talk with people with disabilities. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are hoping to make contacts with facilities and locations at which people with disabilities spend a lot of their time and to which these medical students could visit. Please contact me if this is something in which the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio may have interest, and redirect me to the appropriate contact if you would like me to contact a specific program within your organization.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We appreciate your work and dedication, and I really hope to hear from you soon. Thanks for your time!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ann Witte<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>