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School of Medicine >   Curriculum Committee >   2006 Committee Meetings >   April 3, 2006 Minutes

Curriculum Committee Meeting - April 3, 2006

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Minutes

March 6, 2006

The minutes were approved as read.

Announcements

Guest speaker, Janet Bickell - AAMC will be presenting on April 6th, 8-9AM and again 12 Noon on Leadership in the OVP Conference Rm-L4. 

Dr. Tompkins attended a Leadership Development Course run by Harvard in Massachusetts.

Dean Fine is recovering well and expects to be back in a couple of weeks.

 

SubCommittee Reports

  1. Directors of 1st & 2nd Year Courses                          Roy Steigbigel, MD
    Minutes sent via e-mail - No discussion
  2. Directors of Clinical Courses                                     David Tompkins, MD
    Minutes sent via e-mail – A new one month long clerkship in Ambulatory Care is being put together by Dr. Tompkins and Dr. Sussman.  This will involve changing Family Medicine from 6 to 4 weeks & changing Medicine from 12 to 8 weeks.  The changes will allow the Academic Calendar to be in 4 wk & 8 wk blocks which will make scheduling much easier.  There will be 2 wks added to OB/GYN and it was suggested to include Women’s Health Issues to the added time.  Proposal to be presented to committee in early Fall.
  3. Objectives & Assessment                                         Sidonie Morrison, PhD
    The group is working on competencies and how we evaluate them in our courses for all 4 years.  It is also investigating how to expand & improve our assessment methodologies and how courses can adopt competencies and measurements.

Minutes approved as read


Minutes approved as read

Course Evaluations

Course Name                                                                     Evaluators Names
Psychiatry in Med 4th Yr                                                     Roxanne Palermo, MD, Jack Stern, PhD

Dr. Williams opened the floor for questions on the report. Dr. Bronson stated that this was an excellent course and asked if the course was open to residents?  Dr. Halperin said it was not.  Dr. Williams said this has been a very successful course with important and good topics and thanked the Evaluators and Dr. Halperin.

 
Faculty Development

Assessments and Politics

 Janice Grackin, PhD from Stony Brook Main Campus gave a talk on Assessment and presented a power point ‘Understanding the Role of Politics in Educational Assessment’.  There was a short question & answer session pertaining to this presentation. 		 

Old Business

Policy of open exams was discussed amongst the medical students which led some of them to decide to ask for a change in the Honor Code, having it be a requirement for students to voluntarily take exams in only proctored settings. They have been taking a pole, and so far the outcome is 3-1 against requiring taking tests in proctored setting.  

New Business

1.  Reappointment of Peter Halperin, MD (Psychiatry in Med 4th Yr.
2.  Dr. Paul A. Fisher – New Course Director for Pharmacology Course

3.  Dr. Smadar Kort – New Course Director for Cardiovascular Course

There was some discussion on new course directors being appointed by Dean Fine at the recommendation of this committee which led to the following motions being made:
Motion:

  • Invite any and all new and reappointed Course Directors to attend the Curriculum Committee meetings and be available to speak to the committee.
  • As Course Directors to be asked to address the most recent course evaluation review and student review.
  • As appropriate, attend a Sub-Committee first.
  • Systems segment chairs to attend System Committee first before attending the Curriculum Committee.

Dr. Kucine is rejoining us and will be taking the place of Dr. Chaves, and Dr. Miller will invite him to next Systems Meeting to discuss the Dental School

4.  GSA Com Web Site Referral – about transparency on transcript

There was some discussion on this topic without any decisions being made.

Unanimously approved.
Dr. Paul A. Fisher will be invited to the May Curriculum Com Mtg.
Dr. Smadar Kort will be invited to the Systems Meeting, and also to the May Curriculum Com Mtg.
Motion passed

Motion passed

Motion not passed
Motion passed


Issues at Dental School on Agenda for next month.

Tabled to next Months Meeting

Next Meeting

May 1, 2006

  

Attendance: (*ABSENT) Richard Bronson, Roger Cameron, Moises Eisenberg, Howard Fleit, Peter Halperin, Allen Kucine, *Sidonie Morrison, Tom O’Riordan, *Paul Richman, Warren Rosenfeld, Sandy Simon, *Joseph Sorrento, Jack Stern, Howard Sussman, Peter Viccellio, Tamara Weiss, Peter Williams, Hugo Altamirano, Brian Rosenberg, Jennifer Ripton, Tariq Ahmad, Marilyn London, Frederick Miller, Elza Mylona, Frederick Schiavone, Roy Steigbigel, David Tompkins
Other: Heidi Campani, Jean D’Andraia, Arnold Jaffe
Guests: Pat Bley, Roxanne Palermo


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