Minutes
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Minutes of March 7, 2005
Dr. Stern asked that the minutes be amended to reflect that the action of the Clinical Course Directors Subcommittee to lower the passing grade on NBME Subject Exams from 15th percentile to 7th percentile was neither approved nor disapproved by the full Curriculum Committee. Instead, Dr. Williams ruled that course directors may lower the passing grade to 7%, or not, at their discretion. |
Motion was made to accept minutes as amended. All agreed.
The minutes were approved as amended. |
Announcements
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Reminder for Retreat April 15, 2005
It was mentioned that an Agenda has not been distributed as of yet. It was determined that it is still in draft format. Dr. Sussman reported that there is a motion before the Faculty Senate to expand the membership of the Curriculum Committee. The Faculty Senate has had a difficult time in getting a minimum number of senators to vote on the motion. He asked that if anyone knows faculty senators in their department, please get them to reply back to Dr. Priebe to cast a vote. This can be done by e-mail. |
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SubCommittee
Reports |
1. Directors of Basic Science Courses Roy Steigbigel, PhD
No discussion.
2. Directors of Clinical Courses David Tompkins, MD
Minutes of March 7th sent to Committee via e-mail. Dr. Tompkins not present.
3. Objectives & Assessment John Chaves, PhD
Minutes of March 18th and 25th sent to Committee via e-mail
4.Examination Policy & Practice Fred Miller, PhD
Dr. Miller put forth motions to standardize grading of multiple choice exams, and to develop a mechanism for reviewing the quality of questions appearing on exams. (The details of these motions had been previously distributed. The final motion to standardize grading of exams was clarified by eliminating specific reference to determining the course grade, which is a separate matter from exam grades.) Dr. Eisenberg seconded the motions. Discussion ensued. Dr. Steigbigel, noting that input from the 1st and 2nd Year Course Directors should be heard before votes were taken, moved to table these motions until the matters had been considered by his subcommittee. Drs. Eisenberg and Halperin seconded the motions to table. |
Minutes will be sent out to committees today.
Minutes accepted as read.
Minutes accepted as read
Motion:
Table voting on Item 1 of the Exam Policy until next month.
7 in favor, 0 oppose,
Motions to table passed without dissent. |
Course
Evaluations |
Sub I Pediatrics Evaluators Roy Steigbigel, MD & Barbara Nemesure, PhD
The floor was opened for discussion. It was noted that the report praised the Sub-I in Pediatrics as a model for all Sub-I’s. There were no comments from Committee Members on the report or on questions (Dr. Steigbigel) and answers (Dr. Fischel) within it.
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Motion to accept the evaluation was passed.
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| Faculty Development
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Old
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New
Business |
1. Student Advising - Latha Chandran,MBBS
No Discussion - Dr. Chandran not present |
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Next
Meeting |
May 2, 2005
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Attendance: (*ABSENT) (*Richard Bronson), (*Roger Cameron), John Chaves, Jean D’Andraia, Moises Eisenberg, Howard Fleit, Peter Halperin, Arnold Jaffe, Allen Kucine, Marilyn London, Fred Miller, Sidonie Morrison, Elza Mylona, Tom O’Riordan, (*Rahman Pourmand), (*Paul Richman), Warren Rosenfeld, Frederick Schiavone, (*Sandy Simon), (*Joseph Sorrento), Roy Steigbigel, Jack Stern, (*David Tompkins), Peter Viccellio, (*Andrew Wackett), Tamara Weiss, (*Peter Williams), Brian Rosenberg, Jennifer Ripton, (*Tariq Ahmad), (Ashby Wolfe)
Guests: Howard Sussman, Janet Fischel, Barbara Nemesure
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