Approval of minutes from prior meeting

Announcements

• CSC Opening
• Faculty Development Workshop – Conducting Effective Workshops & Retreats (Dr. Fischel) on December 12th - 5:15 – 6:45PM,  Dean’s Small Conf Rm-L4
• Change in recording of clerkship grades.  Students who fail only the subject exam in a clerkship will receive a “Z” on their transcript rather than an “I."

SubCommittee Reports
Directors of 1st & 2nd Year Courses               Tom O’Riordan MD
Directors of Clinical Courses                           David Tompkins, MD 
Objectives & Assessment                              Sidonie Morrison, PhD
Systems Committee                                       Frederick Miller, MD 

Course Evaluation Reports [PLEASE REVIEW BEFORE THE MEETING]
Course                                                          Evaluators

Faculty Development

Old Business:

• Continuation of Nutrition Review from September Meeting

New Business:      

1. New Course Proposal - Ambulatory Neurology with special emphasis on Neuromuscular Disease – Dr. Kritzer/Dr. Pourmand
2. New third year course schedule to accommodate a new ambulatory clerkship (to be reviewed next meeting).  Note the invariant sequence of courses.
3. Requiring passage of Step 2CS exam to graduate beginning in 2008