Minutes

Review the minutes of the April 5, 2004 Meeting.   Jack Stern amended item # 7 under “New Business” in the April 2004 minutes.   The correction should say,”Peter Williams introduced a proposal made by Drs. Stern & Cameron to allow the students to take “proficiency” quizzes at various stages in their courses.   Passing all would assure a pass in the course provided that the student also achieved a minimal (but yet to be determined) score on a comprehensive final exam.   In all cases, the actual grade in the course would be determined by the performance on the final exam.   Students could take the quizzes as many times as necessary to pass.   The quizzes could be given at any time the student wanted it and no proctor would be required.”

MOTION: Accept minutes after Jack Stern amended the 04/05/04 minutes.

   PASSED

Announcements

1.   Peter Williams announced to the committee that there will be a “Town Meeting” on Tuesday, May 4 in LH 6, in the HSC building at 4:00-5:30 PM .   Everyone is invited.

2.   Peter Williams reminded everyone the Faculty Retreat will be held May 15, 2004 at Sunwood, Dr. Kenny's house.   The topic is “Renewing Education.”   Registration and breakfast is at 8 a.m.

3.   Peter Williams announced the Emergency Medicine Dept. will be hosting Dr. Geoff Norman, BSc, MSc, PhD at Grand Rounds on Tuesday, May 4 from 8:30-10:00 AM in LH 1 of the HSC building.   The topic is “How Learner's Learn.”

SubCommittee Reports

•  Directors of Didactic Courses                          R. Steigbigel

The minutes from the March meeting were distributed by email.   There were no additional comments on the report.  

2.     Directors of Clinical Courses     

D. Tompkins for J. Sorrento

             The minutes from the April meeting were distributed by email.   There were no    additional comments on the report.

3.     Innovation Group                                              P. Williams

             No report.

4.     Evaluation Subcommittee                              A. Jaffe

             Arnold Jaffe distributed to the Objectives Committee & the Curriculum Committee a copy of the “Philosophy of Evaluation.”   An electronic copy will be emailed to the whole curriculum committee for review.

5.     Teaching & Learning Strategies                    A. Wackett

             No report.

6.      Information Technology                                   P. Viccellio

              Michael Silverberg & Moshe Eisenberg requests a minimum of 10 days for the eZexam to be formatted and placed on the system.   Hopefully in the future, less time will be needed.   There is also the possibility that the course director's will be able to do it themselves in the not too distant future.

7.      Objectives Project                                           J. Chaves

              Dr. Chaves announced that the committee is making the final steps to the review.   It will be distributed at the Faculty Retreat on May 15 th .

Committee Accepted Minutes.

Committee Accepted Minutes.

The topic has been tabled until the June 7 th meeting.   This will allow the committee time to review the subject and bring any suggestions to the meeting.

Course Evaluations

1.     Course evaluation of the Lab Medicine course(J. Bock-Director)-by R. Barnett & J. Sprafkin

The report was accepted.

Old Business

1.     Student participation in subcommittees:

              Clinical –unanimous vote for student membership.

              Didactic- - 6/12/2 against regular student membership.  

              Unanimous for quarterly student participation.  

              Unanimous for occasional town meetings.

2.    Exam questions review group                             Fred Miller

3.    Review of structural curricular principles #s 1, 2, & 3

              Elza distributed the proposal “Structural Curriculuar Principles/Vision Principles” to the committee for review.   Peter Williams asked the members to please email him directly, before the next CC meeting June 7 th , any criticisms or useful ideas on the proposals.   The proposal will also be emailed to the curriculum committee members for anyone that may have missed the meeting.  

4.    Standards for voluntary faculty                     Peter Halperin      

              Peter Halperin will send out to the committee questions on “clinical faculty standards” and what they should use to enforce them.   Peter Halperin asked for volunteers to help, but no one offered to help.

MOTION: The Curriculum Committee proposed to allow each subcommittee to decide for themselves whether or not students may sit in on their own committee meetings.
ACTION: PASSED, with one abstention.

Postponed until the June 7 th meeting.

Postponed until the June 7 th meeting.

New Business

•  15 MINUTES On Medical Education                       Elza Mylona

              15 minutes will be given to the presentation of an issue/topic on medical education in every meeting. In order to get faculty input on the desired topics, Dr. Mylona presented a series of questions utilizing the Audience Response System.   This system may be used in courses.   If the students are unsure of an answer to a question and don't want to embarrass themselves in front of their classmates, no one will know who answered the questions differently then the majority of the group.   The answers will also help the professor know what information is not clear to their students.

2.    10 Day period for grade challenge            Sidonie Morrison

              There was a discussion of changing the policy that allows students ten days after a grade is posted was to appeal that a grade.   The consensus was that ten days was too much time and five school days was thought better. The changes will be noted in the Policy and Procedures on the web.  

3.     The need for examination policies – e.g. length and complexity - was discussed and referred to committee.

MOTION: There will be five school days from the time of posting for the students to appeal a grade.   The faculty would also have five days to answer the students.

ACTION: Passed

Next Meeting

The next Curriculum Committee meeting will be held on Monday, June 7, 2004 in the

OVP Conference Room.

Meeting adjourned at 9:30 A.M.