Minutes
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September 12, 2005 |
The minutes were approved as read.
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Announcements
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Reminder for the Faculty Retreat on December 10th from 8 to 12 at Sunwood. |
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SubCommittee
Reports |
- Directors of 1st & 2nd Year Courses Roy Steigbigel, MD
September Minutes were distributed by e-mail. No further discussion.
- Directors of Clinical Courses David Tompkins, MD
September Minutes distributed by e-mail. No further discussion.
- Objectives & Assessment John Chaves, PhD
Minutes were distributed by e-mail. No further discussion.
- Examination Policy & Practice Frederick Miller, PhD
This committee does not exist any longer. The two motions that were sent to the Curriculum Committee on The Review of Examinations were rejected. It was decided that grading policies will reside with the Course Directors. It was also mentioned that in one year Course Directors will be able to use the NBME question bank and make up their own questions. Dr. Morrison said that a question bank is being developed in the Blood System with a searchable data base. A person with enough expertise is needed to go forward with this project. IT support for this should not be students. This topic (support, etc.) will come up at the retreat on December 10th.
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The minutes were approved as read
The minutes were approved as read
The minutes were approved as read
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Course
Evaluations |
Clinical Therapeutics Iris Granek, MD & Mary Kritzer, PhD
Dr. Kritzer presented the report on Clinical Therapeutics as Dr. Granek was attending the AAMC meeting. She stated that this is an extremely difficult course to administer.The weakness pointed out was that the course objectives had not been brought up to date, and no specific reading assignments are listed in CBase. Comments from Dr. Steigbigel pertained to a correction on the 1st page of the report SUMMARY OF COURSE DESCRIPTION. It should state that the 33 separate sessions that were given were led by 27 different faculty members from 7 departments from Stony Brook‘s School of Medicine. instead of 27 different faculty members from Winthrop.
Dr. Steigbigel mentioned the decision that was made at the July 21st 1st & 2nd Yr. CD’s Meeting with reference to Course Directors that are having difficulty in getting faculty to teach: CD’s bring their needs for faculty assistance to the appropriate Chairs 3 months before the course begins with copies to Dean Schiavone’s office. If resolution is not achieved (in a month) the Dean’s office will get involved. Dr. Steigbigel will work on this form and submit it to Dr. Schiavone to be circulated. Dr. Fine is in agreement with this decision, and as he will be attending the Curriculum Committee meeting On December 5th we may be able to bring this up for discussion. Dr. Steigbigel stated that Dr. Williams said he would be able to get course support from the Dean’s Office. He needs steady help to coordinate his course.
The problems of not getting faculty to teach, etc. brought up the question as to what happened to the statements Dr. Williams made that he would review the commitments in every Chairperson’s letter of offer, and the promise that no offer goes out without it being reviewed by the Dean’s Office for commitment to the educational mission? Dr. Miller suggested he bring this up again when Dr. Williams is present. |
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| Faculty Development |
Professionalism Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH
No discussion |
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Old
Business |
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New
Business |
1. Psych system segment co-director, Andrew Francis.
Moved and seconded: Andrew Francis as co-director for Psychiatry System.
Brian Rosenberg reported issues that began when Dr. Williams asked the 1st & 2nd Yr for the possibility of opening up the student Notes Service to Course Directors. The students had an online vote on this and the outcome was 52% disagreed, 42% agreed. There seems to be a lack of trust from the students. Dr. Bronson said he cannot sit in at every lecture and he asked to see the Notes. He did find incorrect and missing information. Students are not happy with the fact that they are not allowed to have their quizzes back. It was suggested to invite members from the student Notes Service to a future meeting. This led to much discussion with a major issue centering about ‘trust’ between students and faculty.
Motion was made for an establishment of an Educational Research Support Center to help with Faculty communication and appropriate IT support.
There was discussion about the agenda for the Retreat. It was noted that if the Retreat was to consist of Task Force Reports, these could be more efficiently read in advance.
Items that Dean Williams should consider for Retreat Agenda discussion:
- Where the school will be in 5 years?
- Organization of educational support (is it fragmented?)
- Mission Based funding
- Student-Faculty interaction
Who teaches |
Unanimously approved
Unanimously approved |
Next
Meeting |
December 5, 2005 |
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Attendance: (*ABSENT) Richard Bronson, *Roger Cameron, *Moises Eisenberg, Howard Fleit, *Peter Halperin, Sidonie Morrison, Tom O’Riordan, Paul Richman, Warren Rosenfeld, *Sandy Simon, *Joseph Sorrento, Jack Stern, Howard Sussman, Peter Viccellio, *Tamara Weiss, *Peter Williams, Hugo Altamirano, Brian Rosenberg, *Jennifer Ripton, Tariq Ahmad, *John Chaves, *Marilyn London, Frederick Miller, *Elza Mylona, *Frederick Schiavone, Roy Steigbigel, *David Tompkins, *Andrew Wackett
Other: *Heidi Campani, Jean D’Andraia, Arnold Jaffe
Guests: Mary Kritzer
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