Review the minutes of the August 4, 2003 Meeting.

MOTION: Accept minutes as previously distributed by email.

PASSED

1.       LCME Secretariat Consultation 10/1/03

Frank Simon and Robert Eagton are the two LCME representatives that will be coming October 1, 2004 to offer guidance for out interim review.

2.       LCME site visit  12/12-12/15/2004

The LCME is returning December 12-15 in 2004.  PCW asked that committee members mark their calendars to assure they will be available.

3.       Tutor training completed (29 students)

29 students were trained to teach the first year students. 

4.       Stony Brook results for Step 2 were 96% out of a possible 99% in the national average.

1.       Directors of Didactic Courses                        R. Steigbigel

No report.. PCW asked that Jean D’Andraia send the minutes of meetings of this subcommittee to the Curriculum Committee meetings starting in October.

2.       Directors of Clinical Courses                         J. Sorrento

No report..  PCW asked that Lorraine Reeve the recorder of minutes for the Clinical Course Director’s meeting will send her minutes to the Curriculum Committee meeting starting in October.

3.       Innovation Group                                          P. Williams

Fred Schiavone submitted a proposal for a grant to the AAMC for innovative diagnostic skills.  Stony Brook was one of 6 schools in New York State that received the grant.  The proposal was in the amount of $50,000 and $2 million for the overall grant.

4.       Evaluation Subcommittee                             A. Jaffe

There will be three course reviews for October 20.  They are Renal, Pathology, and Nutrition.  On November 3 The Body and Endocrine courses will be reviewed.

5.      Teaching & Learning Strategies                     R. Barraco

A SUNY Retreat will be held on November 15, 2003. 

6.       Information Technology                                 P. Viccellio

No report.

Ms. D'Andraia will be asked to mail the Didactic Course Director's minutes to the Curriculum Committee.

Ms. Reeve will be asked to mail Clinical Course Director minutes to the Curriculum Committee.

Accepted Committee Report

Accepted Committee Report

Accepted Committee Report

Course evaluation of the Surgical Selectives (L. Merriam-Director)-by P. Ells & J. Bliska-

Ø     This course will be changing significantly as of July 1, 2003.  This course was last reviewed 2000.  There are no student evaluations that include the new revisions.  This is a required course of the fourth year for medical students.  The course is given blocks of 4-weeks from July continuing until May.    

Ø       Dr. Merriam stated that it is hard to keep track of all the students during the two week sub-specialty rotations.  Having the course offered only 3 or 4 time a year would help faculty ability to track students.  Dr. Schiavone suggested that evaluations could be simplified by using cards a la medicine, or electronic.

Ø       Dr. Merriam reported that 75% of students feel that Surgical Selectives should be moved to the third year.  He offered three reasons for moving it.

·         Students are asking for it and we should listen to them.

·         Core course and continuity.

·         Administratively difficult to get things done.

Recommendations for Surgical Selective:

Ø     Reassess the course in less than the usual 3 years since the course has significant changes.

Ø     Develop specific curricula for each component, as has anesthesia.

Ø     Have the Curriculum Committee develop goals & objectives for the course director.  This will help make it possible to assess success in achieving these goals & objectives.  Some felt this was the responsibility first of the course directors.

Ø     Improve student evaluations:

Ø       Specifically assess each component

Ø       Ensure better response rate

Ø       Encourage general comments: how could it be improved?

Dr. Merriam and Dr. Ells will bring course objectives for Surgery to the October meeting.

Add to the October agenda changing Surgical Selective to a third year course

Marilyn London was asked to bring data from CurrMIT and other sources to show what year Surgical Selective are taught and how much time is spent on it in other schools.

The course is to be scheduled for review in 2005-6.

"Clinical days" in first & second year-Fred Schiavone

Dr. Schiavone described some of the activities that would take place on the 4 clinical days added to the first and second year schedule. 

1.       GME/UGME-residents teaching in MCS-Jack Coulehan

Dr. Coulehan has received two small grants to support residents teaching first year medical students in MCS.  The hoped for benefits are a) providing role models for the medical students and b) improving the residents’ teaching ability.  The residents will be drawn from Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Psychiatry. 

2.       Peter Williams asked that the 2003 graduation questionnaire be sent to the members of the Curriculum Committee for the October meeting.

3.       Dean Edelman announced that 60% of the discretionary fund would be awarded to educators for the first and second year students.

Mail the Graduation Questionnaire to the Committee and add it to the October agenda.

The next Curriculum Committee meeting will be on Monday, October 20, 2003 in the Preventive Medicine Conference Room on Level 3, Room 067.

Meeting adjourned at  9:20 A.M.