Review the minutes of the July 14, 2003 meeting.

MOTION: Accept minutes as previously distributed by email.  PASSED

Peter Williams received a letter from the LCME which raised some issues requiring our response:

1. Do Sophie Davis transfer students compromise resources available to our regular student's?
2. How does the preparation and performance of transfer students compare to that of our regular students.  Sophie Davis students perform on average somewhat better than our regular students; OMFS, somewhat worse..

John Chaves invited the committee to the School of Dentistry to listen to a guest speaker on August 5, 2003 at 12:00.  Her name is Marilyn Lantz.

1.      Directors of Didactic Courses                  R. Steigbigel

A.      At the July meeting the group discussed how old exams could be used as a teaching tool.

B.     Should students be able to find out the results of their exams the day they take them?  Michael Silverberg could program EZexam to make this possible.

C.     Some course directors believe students currently in the third year class have been misbehaving.  The group wants Al Jordan & Peter Williams to make them behave more professionally.

2.      Directors of Clinical Courses                   F. Schiavone

       No report, July meeting was cancelled.

3.      Innovation Group                                       P. Williams

The Curriculum Task Force has been renamed.  –  Anyone interested in pursuing some curricular change is welcome to join the committee.  One proposal of the group has been a change in second year (see New Business 2 below)

4.      Evaluation Subcommittee                         A. Jaffe

No report

5.     Teaching & Learning Strategies                R. Barraco

At the July 22 meeting the group discussed a "Faculty Development Symposium" planned for November.  The date is still being decided between the 15th or 22nd.  The keynote address will be "How to Improve Medical Education in the 21^st Century: What do we know about what works and what doesn't?"  There will be two breakout blocks included at the symposium.  The committee will meet at the end of August.

6.      Information Technology                            P. Viccellio

The medical school has purchased educational software that has not been used successfully.  Some programs are too long and time consuming for the students to use.  Others are not what the advertisement represented.  Joseph Sorrento used an expensive program as an adjunct to his Surgical Clerkship and let the students know that he would be monitoring their usage on the computer.  The majority of the students never even looked at the program once, and the few that viewed it spent less than one of the twenty hours they would need to complete the program.

Joseph Sorrento told Peter Williams not to reorder this software.      

On the other hand, Roy Steigbigel said that attendance is not taken at his lectures.   Roy stated that he must tell the students what they need to read because they won't do it on their own.  The CD for the heart sounds is part of the course and is very successful.

Accepted Committee Report

Accepted Committee Report

Accepted Committee Report

Accepted Committee Report

The course evaluation of the Surgical Selectives (L. Merriam-Director)-by P. Ells & J. Bliska was postponed because none of the participants showed up.

Postponed until September 8^th meeting.

Peter Williams sent a letter of advisement to Dean Edelman about the committee’s objection to Patricia Colye’s removing Rahman Pourmand as Director of the Neurology Clerkship..  The group discussed the proper role of the Curriculum Committee in intervening in relationships between department chairs and department faculty.  The group felt the resolution of the conflict should be in the Dean’s office though input from the Curriculum Committee was appropriate.

The committee affirmed its desire to have Dean Edelman review the situation and inform the Curriculum Committee of his decision.

1.      Review of a proposed pediatrics research elective- (Available to view in the Office of Medical Education). 
 Dr. Steigbigel questioned the appropriateness of patient contact.  Dr. Janet Fischel informed the committee the students would have minimal exposure to patients. 

There are a few issues to work out: 

A. The students must be HIPAA compliant.

B.  How will they receive an id badge if they are outside students?

C.  Their shots must be up to date.

D.   Liability insurance will not be the responsibility of the Curriculum Committee.

2.      Review of proposed changes to second year schedule for 2004-05 discussed by a group of second year course directors.:

A.      Pharmacology will be taught over the course of the year with a block of time at the beginning of the year for basic principles and, when appropriate, inclusion of pharm classes along side systems classes.  The Neuro and Psych systems will be scheduled adjacent to each other and, as much as possible, moved toward the front of the year.

B.     Exams will be combined, made cumulative and be less frequent.

C.     Nutrition will be taught during systems.  During the first year it will be 6-10 hours and in the second year it will be 10-12 hours.  There will be no grade given until the end of the second year.

D.     ICM 2 will be spread out to include a clinical session within each system period.

The Curriculum Committee approved the elective.

The next Curriculum Committee meeting will be held on September 8, 2003 in the OVP Conference Room from 8:00-9:30 am.  Due to holiday conflicts, the October meeting will be switched to October 20 in the Dean's Small Conference Room. 

Meeting adjourned at 9:30.