November 13, 2007
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Student Council Meeting AgendaNovember 13, 2007
Dean Stone’s Report: Susan Leonhart is sharing a copy of example MSPE so that we can get a better idea of what is included. Also, a quick reminder of the rolling CV that can be updated as the time goes to keep things in mind. John-David’s opinion of the program was given.
Pager Number needs to be included in order to save but it will be looked at.
Student recommendations are highly recommended on how to make the form easier to use in order to allow the student more time to concentrate on school.
Time line starts in November and the form is due in May. We will then get an update on what assoc. deans you are going to meet with to review your MSPE. Starting in august – December the earlier the better. The letters are then forwarded to someone to be proofread and then are compiled in order to be ready for the residency programs.
See the Follow up email from Vincent Ho
Visitors Welcome
Class Reports:
* Med I: José Torres-Garcia
o Scrub donations : Contact Vincent
o Post Gross Toast Friday : Everyone is invited
§ $5 dollars and 7$ dollars at the door
o IHIG support
o Thanksgiving for students
o IPC student health issues
* Med II: Vincent Ho
o Bowling party went well in spite of a last minute reevaluation about 140 people attended
* Med III: Catherine Sinclair
o Funding approved for a holiday party
* Med IV: Jay Lee
Academic Committee Reports:
* IP:
o Block updates:
anatomy: new passing criteria hasn't made a major change in scores below 70, about the same as last year; There has been a big rebound in scores below 70 from first test to second test
cell: several people below 70, those students said they focused on the anatomy rather than cell
Vandre said there may need to be some consideration into cell and anatomy combo in the future
Curriculum resources:
reviewed previously identified student resources (teleteaching, wiki, TBL, PEWS, handouts, practice quizzes)
consider polling students to found out which resources are used most and helpful
Faculty/Student Evaluation Committee:
working to develop passing criteria and develop and implement new remediation criteria, new passing 70% currently only med 1's, both med 1's and 2's next year
remediation ideas - no longer allowed to fail x number of exams, will have to remediate all failed exams currently pass is 70 and remediate below 50, with remediation score can only reach 65-70 objective of passing score is to identify students who are struggling early and fix any possible problems before it is too late
70 is based on correlation with passing USMLE
looking into faculty evaluations to come up with a set of criteria for students evaluating faculty
Faculty Development:
They are attempting to get basic scientists and physicians working together more, trying to use TBL as a way to accomplish this try to designate one of each in a block to work on TBL together, choose them way in advance encourage block leaders to observe new teaching techniques in action
New Business:
Hitchcock has been meeting with and working with block and module leaders to emphasize writing good objectives attempting to link objectives to test questions
goal to establish a test question bank that is linked to the objectives and be able to use test question bank for remediation exams
wants block leaders to work with individual faculty members to improve objectives and if they still aren't satisfactory, leader should rewrite them
* ISP:
* PD:
* PCM:
o They are working on combing PCM and PD and it is going to be an on going project. Look for an email from Mark Stevens. Several issues were brought up by both the med med II’s and I’s.
o i.e. The content of the reading and the correlation with lecture and facilitators was asked to be reviewed.
Also, it was suggested that the facilitators be reminded of the two programs and be cognoscente of the different place students are at in the curriculum.
* Med III/IV:
o New business: There will now be an official withdrawal policy (more so for med 4 rotations than med 3 because theirs are required). The proposed policy is: “If extenuating circumstances
* ECC:
o The committee is going to be taking suggestions on the combination of PD/PCM so email Mark Stevens or Bethany Gaskill if you have any.
Executive Committee Reports:
* Student Affairs Liaisons
o No meeting this week
* Professionalism
o Two main topics of discussion:
Professionalism Consults (creating a committee and writing a policy and procedure document for it)
discussed committee composition, who would use the committee and how it would be accessed
(basically reviewed and revised what was discussed in the last meeting)
Train the Trainer: Med 3-4 curriculum:
This year professionalism was more explicitly added to the Med 3-4 curriculum Clerkship directors were given basic professionalism concepts to be taught in that clerkship
They were given very basic objectives and many directors still weren't sure what they needed to do
They will be given a new set of more specific objectives to help guide in adding the professionalism components to the clerkship
* Leadership
o We are looking for a med IV to do a rotation in order to put together a leadership Curriculum. Jay will be sending out an email
* Student Organizations
Planning Committee Reports:
* Funding
* Fundraising
* Library/Technology
* Meiling Hall
Inquired about heating in lecture halls and more recycling cans in Meiling
fixing clocks (dead batteries and time change)
* Parent Weekend: Plans are moving forward, but there are glitches with the dates
o Currently brainstorming ideas so any suggestions can be sent to Omar Ezziddin, Brad Gable, or Catherine Sinclair
* Yearbook
Events Committee Reports:
* SC Trips:
* Community Service
* BB Tournament(Now going to be known as Philanthropy) Has been dwindling over the past few years and hasn’t raised the type of donation to validate the amount of work that was put in. Let’s overhaul this
* Family Friendly
Planning to organize an ice skating event before the end of the year or early 2008.
* Formal
* Intramurals
Our intensive yearlong project is to work on obtaining as many intramural championship t-shirts for our respective classes as possible. It involves at the very least sending out an email detailing the registration dates and the leagues running each season.
Council Report
* President
o Three committees
§ Wellness: Form a group to talk about this idea and mull it over.
* Tara, Mark Stevens, Maggie Rosen
* Meet with Dr. Lucy to get a better understanding of the program and then organize a discussion
§ Learning community evolution:
* Hillary Bashaw, Justin Harper, Bethany Gaskill
§ Evolution of medical school curriculum
* Omar Ezziddin, Vincent Ho, Kami Teal, Tara Subbarao, José Torres-Garcia, Josh Jones, Theo Cios, Mike Larson
* Vice-President
o Role of new chair positions was discussed.
o Re-announce and explain tutor-net to the students esp. 3rd years.
* Treasurer
* Secretary
o Technology Committee: Those on the Library committee and Justin Harper, Omar Ezziddin, Neil Lall, Seth Dolman and Neil Jenkins was also suggested pending his approval.
o Possible audio to be discussed at the next meeting