Present: Bottom, Small, Davidson, Romrell, Rarey, Pauly, Watson, Harrell, Rooks
Update on MedEd Week: Attendance of sessions seemed beneficial and was successful; sponsorship by scholars; well attended sessions, better than last year.
Banquet: Hopefully was enjoyable; thanks for sponsoring recognition of members of faculty; any input or suggestions to enhance or recognize individuals, please let us know.
Romrell: Wednesday noon: course directions meeting; June 6 clerkship directors retreat here; June 7, we end the first year; June 30 is the Whitecoat Ceremony; course and clerkship directors on program; July 1 and 2 is orientation for 3rd year; July 8 students start clerkships.
Watson: Graduation was very nice; a lot of faculty and chairs there; Yank Coble gave a nice talk; Rene Buchanan and the Whitecoat Ceremony is a big event; all 3rd year students will receive a stethoscope at the ceremony. Rene Buchanan's idea; Dr. Romrell will send date around, sometime after August 14.
Nutrition meeting has almost finished up the final plan. This committee plans to make a presentation at the September meeting.
We will not meet until Fall unless you hear from Margie.
Another item was pass/fail. Bottom line at last meeting was there was not enough support to implement. A straw vote calculated that only two people supported it at this time. Issues that came out of that meeting were: Exams in general
Watson: We need to work on how we evaluate students to make it better and to
continue to work on faculty development. Davidson: I think the normative system
of grading should be changed.
Heather: Students think we are teaching 100 facts so that they retain 10.
Romrell: The competency based evaluation is pass/fail. Already in place.
Pauly: One way to approach this is to let the Evaluation Subcommittee devise
a mechanism to look at the examination system of the course. We have tools that
Dr. Rathe developed. The challenge is to use those and evaluate my own questions.
Watson: Do we need to formally study the exam questions at this time or do we
need to study the debriefings?
Parker: One thing that would change things is the interstation exam on the OSCE.
If you find out that what you taught them when isn't working; what you need
is the feedback a year or two later.
Watson: I agree with you.
Rarey: The Curriculum Committee can assist in assessment of student learning
in the first and second year via more subjective environments: EPC (small groups).
Parker: EPC is a multifunctional course; a support group for a group of students suffering through crises in their first year of med school. They are trying to develop their self and peer eval skills. Some grading inhibits some fundamental learning in that course. I am worried that it would interfere with the peer support.
Pauly: Support group is important; should not be overall purpose of the course;
may not even be the primary function of this course.
Wayne: If taught right, thestudents will get desensitized.
Rarey: Hope that in the courses we can find the use of oral exams.
We hope to have a Curriculum Committee retreat to kick off the year, get outside
folks to come in.
Watson: Need to have group over summer prepare to present something at the retreat.
Rarey: Recommend that nutrition group meet and give a report at the retreat.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 a.m.