Minutes
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April 4, 2005
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The minutes were approved as read.
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Announcements
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Dr Williams announced that May 18th is the Awards Dinner, and Graduation is May 19th.
Dr. Williams announced that the Senate by-Laws were approved allowing two at-large members who would not count as members of any department.
Dr. Williams congratulated Paul Richman on being elected at-large Curriculum Committee Member. He also asked committee members to submit recommendations at the end of the summer for the next election.
If anyone is interested in being on one of the task forces for the faculty retreat that was held on April 15th, please let Dr. Williams know. |
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SubCommittee
Reports |
1. Directors of 1st & 2nd Year Courses Roy Steigbigel, MD
Discussion deferred to new business.
2. Directors of Clinical Courses David Tompkins, MD
Dr. Tompkins referred to the April 4, 2005 Clinical Course Directors Committee Meeting, Item #3 (Senior Year Calendar Considerations) where as the following motion was made and approved: “4th Year students cannot miss more than a maximum of 2 days without input by the Course Director to develop an appropriate remediation plan to make up missed time”. This motion is now being brought to this committee for approval. 3. Objectives & Assessment John Chaves, PhD
No discussion.
4. Examination Review Group Moises Eisenberg, PhD
Discussion of Exam Policy discussed in Old Business Item #1 |
Minutes Approved Motion:
All in favor - 1 Abstention
Minutes approved |
Course
Evaluations |
Sub I: Medicine – Roseline Jerome, MD & Irene Solomon, PhD
Dr. Williams opened the floor for discussion of the Sub I: Medicine Evaluation Report.
The review reported that there is still some need for improvement in attaining manageable team sizes, improving the process for providing immediate feedback from attending physicians and house staff to the sub-intern students, and incorporating simulated patient interactions to further enhance the “hands on training experience of the sub-intern students.
Recommendations:
- Change the evaluation with additional focus on history and physical exam.
- Use of the simulation Center may be helpful.
- Use Chief Residents to do the evaluations.
Medicine is having a retreat on May 5th at the 3 Village Inn. Chief Resident, Residents and Faculty will be attending. These items could be put on the agenda listing situations and then be brought back to the Curriculum Committee for discussion. |
Dr. Tompkins will let Dr. Williams know what was decided at the Medicine retreat. |
| Faculty Development
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1. Selecting appropriate assessment methods – Peter Williams
A video presentation from the University of Guelph Teaching and Learning Innovations 17th Annual Conference was shown to the committee. |
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Old
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1. Examination Policy – Moises Eisenberg
The Motion from the Exam Committee was brought up for discussion by Dr. Eisenberg. It had been presented at the 1st and 2nd Year Course Directors Committee meeting on April 21st for discussion and was approved 11/4/0. The motion “All Objective Exams are to be normalized. Outliers are determined by Course Director.” was approved is now being presented to the Curriculum Committee for a final vote. The motion was discussed with concerns raised about the impact of normalization on student incentives, on fairness, on course director autonomy, and its effect in unusual circumstances.. |
Motion:
Exam Committee Proposal
5-in favor, 6-opposed, 0 Abstentions Motion failed 5/6/0
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New
Business |
Dr. Morrison questioned Dr. Williams on the voting privileges rule for the Sub-Committee Chairs at Curriculum Committee Meetings. There was a brief discussion on this. It was stated, at this time, the Sub-Committee Chairs are not authorized in the Senate by-laws to have voting privileges.
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The topic ‘Voting Members’ will be put on the Agenda for next months meeting |
Next
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June 6, 2005
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Attendance: (*ABSENT) Richard Bronson, *Roger Cameron, Moises Eisenberg, *Howard Fleit, Peter Halperin, Arnold Jaffe, Sidonie Morrison, Tom O’Riordan, *Rahman Pourmand, Paul Richman, Warren Rosenfeld, Sandy Simon, Joseph Sorrento, Jack Stern, *Tamara Weiss, Peter Williams, Brian Rosenberg, Jennifer Ripton, *Tariq Ahmad, *Ashby Wolfe, John Chaves, Jean D’Andraia, Marilyn London, *Frederick Miller, Elza Mylona, Frederick Schiavone, Roy Steigbigel, David Tompkins, *Andrew Wackett, Heide Campani,
Guests: Howard Sussman, *Peter Viccellio, Barbara Nemesure, Janet Fischel, Roseline Jerome, Irene Solomon
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