Juliette reported that 4th years are busy with applications for residency.
Dr. Berns reports that he and Dr. Watson are going to Washington next week to discuss some issues about the LCME and as well as PIMS program. If there is anything to report it will be mentioned at the next meeting.
Dr. Rarey reported that the LCME subcommittees are meeting now to work on getting their reports in before the October 15 deadline.
Dr. Rooks reviewed the work plan outlined at the last meeting. He indicated that the course and clerkship annual reports are being reviewed now and that the Evaluation Subcommittee will report to the Curriculum Committee at a future date.
The topic of the next meeting will be Ed Meyer's subcommittee on the basic sciences. That meeting will be October 13.
David Burchfield handed out the list of clinical presentations and it showed what percentage is being taught for each clinical presentation and in what clerkship. He indicated there is a need to find out where/if the clinical presentations are being taught. After the information is collected, decisions will be made. He noted that it would be a good idea to have validation by having 5-10 students go through the clinical presentation list to note if they have been exposed to any of the presentations. After that has been done the Curriculum Committee will review the presentation list again with the data gathered.
Someone asked where does this group think we ought to go with the underrepresented presentations (such as drowning)? Dr.Rathe indicated that we should treat them as out-lyers and make sure number is real.
Dr. Watson indicated the four-point criteria applicable to a clinical presentation below:
Dr. Rooks asked Tim and Juliette if they could find 10 students to critique the list.
The meeting ended with a few comments by Dr. Rooks: