December 11, 2007

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December 11, 2007

Dean Stone’s Report: Carmen outage update, thanking students, thank Dr. Lucey, etc.

January 24^th Step 1 Fair, January 29^th first career fair, Med Show is up to 25,000 hits and 12 other universities are going to be coming online.  Med 4 scheduling meeting is going to be at 5:00pm but notices have gone out to allow students to attend.  They are going to podcasted as well.  Happy Holidays.

Jane Trask:  - Med I

                  Med II: individual appts.

         She would like to get a better insight into what the students want because it is so student interest dependent.  Would like student input on career development/how we would like to learn about it and to move into a more recognized role for career services instead of compliance.

Med III:  match process

Everybody got in on time and successfully. 

Class Reports:

• Med I:  Going to resolve most of their issues and are having a canned food drive in competition with the Med II’s but everyone should contribute.  Also, doing an Angel Tree.  Probably going to provide Christmas for a family with the revenue from the Post Gross Toast party.  Party Funding Approved
• Med II: Funding proposal for a Post GI party
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• Med III:  Tacky Sweater Christmas Party Friday Dec 21^st @ Park Street Tavern at 8:00pm.
• Med IV:
• Needed more time on a rotation for interviews.  Jay will be finding out more and getting us an update.
• Would it be possible to do two week rotations; They have that but it is counted as vacation months so it not too appealing.
• MD/PHD:
• Party funding approved for January

Academic Committee Reports:

• IP: TBL - grading system determined by the block leader
  peer review will be incorporated into TBL - not for a "grade" part of professionalism to do it
  scoring system not completely decided, currently each block decides how they want to score it
  considering making a policy of what to do when students miss TBL
  
  curriculum committee will begin looking into restructuring anatomy and CAPS
  
  student review committee - task force formed to look at student review throughout Med 1 - 4
  this includes both academic and professionalism issues
  want to identify review issues early and deal with them, already doing this with academics, but professionalism isn't covered to the same degree
• ISP: -ISP Academic Program committee is continuing to emphasize congruence between modules (ie making modules structurally similar in terms of introductions, book lists, and objectives).  The committee has also been working with Drs Post and Knutson of PD and PCM in attempt to make ISP overlap more with IP curriculum, specifically for next year when the new PD/PCM curricula are combined.
  -ISP Curriculum committee meets monthly to discuss and analyze past modules, facilitated by student feedback and exam statistics, and relays this information to module leaders for revision for the next year.
• PD: they love the med1s enthusiasm and they were disappointed with our lack of knowledge for the PE exams. They’re restructuring it next year so that they'll probably be graded.
• PCM: PCM - Discussion points included:
  Med 1's and the social/behavioral/ developmental sciences blocks of PCM.
  Med 2's discussed the Debbie Downer that the back to back to back abuse, addiction, and palliative care modules were and looked forward to meaning in medicine.
  Concerns about the correlation of PCM small group discussions align with information learned in both IP and ISP curricula were discussed. Two proposals were considered:
  A) in the future have clusters of ISP students in PCM small groups so they can group together and be fearless question askers, or 2) just write up a brief explanation of information they would need to be up to speed on the disease process/ any other relevant information that the IP students have and they don't. The latter seemed more feasible because IP ISP split is made after PCM groups are assigned.
  Other discussion involved the new PCM/PD course which will be discussed in the ECC notes
• Med III/IV: New Elective – we discussed the logistics of an elective with the Cleveland clinic in Florida.  More on this as the details are worked out.
   
  Student access to health maintenance visits – results from a recent survey indicate a lack of student awareness regarding the current policy and difficulty in accessing heath care with student health insurance.  The plan is to increase awareness of the current three days off per eight-week rotation policy and follow up with another survey to clarify problems.  
   
  Next meeting we’ll discuss course failures, withdrawals, and repeats and how they impact the MSPE.  Any suggestions or input, please let us know.
• ECC: IP yearly report - students continue to do well and pass tests hooray!
  students continue to like the same faculty members i.e. - Dr. DePhilip, Dr. Weber, etc. a process for recognizing teaching efforts was discussed. Last time a dinner was held to honor such faculty most didn't show so a gift card or an honors/ letters/ BRAVO sticker system was discussed. TBL continues to annoy students, but its good for us and we don't even know it so it will continue and sessions will be added.
  There's a big push to have lecturers write good objectives and teach to them and write questions that test them, some are getting it, some are struggling and some don't seem to be too worried about those silly objectives.

PCM/ PD new course plan - It has come to the attention of the administration that there's a lot of overlap between PCM and PD, and the Dougs (Knutson and Post) have been asked to look into how a combined course could happen. The main objectives of the course would be to 1) eliminate the overlap and B) to foster the development of clinical skills earlier in the curriculum. It is hoped that by combining the curricula of these courses and by restructuring the content students may have a better understanding of physician patient interactions, clinical interviewing, and physical exam. The course would be a 4-year longitudinal course. The 3rd and 4th year components were kind of fuzzy still, but sounded like they would consist of occasional small group discussions, because a lot of people think you don't really value/appreciate a lot of PCM and PD skills/ knowledge until you need them in the clinic at which point the ship has sailed, by continuing the course into the clinical years perhaps this problem could be avoided. During the pre-clinical years the course would meet weekly one afternoon per week, except during test weeks (PCM gets a lot of crap over small groups during test week despite the fact that the numbers show there is no real impact on test scores). The small groups would be composed of two anatomy tables and the small group would stay the same for both Med1 and 2 as would the facilitator. A lot of discussion had taken place on the merits of different ways to switch/ not switch groups and the Dougs chose stability. Faculty would meet during test weeks to discuss content etc. so that students could have a more uniform (read: better/ satisfying) experience in small groups.

Contact Mark Stevens if you have any suggestions or ideas you would like to see passed on to these committes

Executive Committee Reports:

• Student Affairs Liaisons
• Professionalism: meeting focused on organizing seminar series "putting professionalism into practice" there will be two during the course of a year on a Friday at noon
  a professionalism issue will be presented in a video vignette and discussed (details were discussed)
  the goal is to do the first one in February or March
• Leadership: Brainstorming ideas for Med III/IV component, to meet with Dr. Ledford  Beth will provide an update when it is available.
• Student Organizations

Planning Committee Reports:

• Funding request were reviewed and addressed per the guidelines.
• Fundraising:  Are doing a great job
• Library/Technology: Off to a great start; topics included computer requirement; podcast quality; Carmen outage; PDA requirement; Outlook Server.  Good participation from non-SC class members.  We would like to thank them.
• One PDA suggestion would be to possibly provide the software instead of the hardware because it is expensive.
• Printing update.  Has been decreased by 50% and has improved the utilization of labor and availability of machines.
• Meiling Hall
• Parent Weekend:  It is going to be moved along with nite out to coincide
• Yearbook

Events Committee Reports:

• SC Trips
• Community Service
• Philanthropic:  Josh is going to look into the possibility of Mud Volleyball.  To be decided by the philanthropic Committee.
• Family Friendly:  Iceskating at the Chiller at Easton January 12^th @ 5:15-7:15
• Formal: Going to be at the Vault, Saturday February 16^th.  More details forthcoming.
• Intramurals: Winter Registration is 1/7-11

Council Report

• President
• Research Advisory Committee:  Andrea Hahn, Thoe Cios, Ed Briercheck
• Website: Is up and working.  Great Job Neil and Special Thanks to Dr. Lucy.
• Board/Rotation issue:  All of the discussion was based around whether credit could be given to the rotation or not.  All of the other questions depending on whether this could be adjusted.  Decided to seek the advice from the student who have gone through this process and get their opinion.
• Vice-President
• Dr. Souba has provided four dates and a update will come out when confirmed by John-David
• Treasurer
• Secretary: Committee Updates; PDA options; audio is out; official thanks to Miranda.