Dr. Rooks opened the meeting by welcoming everyone back to the 99-00 academic year meetings. Introduced new members: Jeffrey Dwyer, Bruce Goldfeder, Patti Moore, and a first year student, Ankit Desai to the rest of the committee members. Committee members asked that they receive a new listing of the members with updated information. A sign in sheet was sent around the room for each member to update their email address and contact information.
Announcements:
Dr. Watson announced again to new members as well as reminding the others that the LCME site visit is approaching and that the Curriculum Committee has a big role in the site visit.
Shireen commented on how much she is enjoying the clinical years.
Dr. Rarey reported that the Accreditation Office is in the process of updating the entire database and LCME documents in the database. He also announced that in January 2000 there will be a mock site visit with Drs. Suter and Reynolds as the site visiting team in preparation for the March site visit. He was also announced that the Evaluation Subcomittee has now completed review all 1st and 2nd year courses and syllabi to see how well courses are in alignment with the competencies. Currently the committee is in the process of evaluating all of the clerkships. Sometime in October, the Evaluation Subcommittee will report their findings to the Curriculum Committee.
Dr. Rooks reported that Sandi Anusavice has been hired as consultant to identify how competencies are being taught in course.
Class of 2001 did very well on USMLE Step1. This is the first time the examination has been given as a computer-based examination. One day in length rather than two days and half as many questions.
The final reports for the USMLE Step 1 will not be reported by the NBME until May or June 2000. The preliminary report was that performance was similar to last year with a similar mean and fail rate, estimated mean about 215 and fail rate at about 5% (score below 179). The NBME will no longer provide "norm reference tables" to compute percentile rank.
We had a mean of 218. Using the "norm tables" from last year, we had 9 students (8% of the class) with scores at the 99th percentile and 29 students (24% of the class) with scores equal to or above the 90th percentile. Truly OUTSTANDING performance.
We had only three students who failed Step 1 - less than half of the US estimated fail rate. All of these students ranked low in the class.
Admissions office report: Dr. Cheong reported that so far they have received 1,087 applications and anticipate getting 2000. Thus far, they have interviewed 34 of the students.
Dr. Watson informed the committee about an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, September issue, that may be of interest to them. That article is Integrating Clinician-Educators into Academic Medical Centers, NEJM, vol. 341, 11:840-843, September, 1999. A copy will be forward to everyone.
1. Half-day retreat on October 6 at University Centre hotel 8-1pm.
Dr. Rooks requested that everyone plan to be there. The purpose is to have everyone in cinque as to what the curriculum plan is and work on moving projects forward.
2. LCME Site Visit Preparation:
4. Structural changes in 1& 2 years.
5. Competency-based curriculum
6. Clinical Presenton Model
7. Managed Care, Health Care Delivery, Economics of Health Care
8. Professionalism
9. End of Life Issues
Dr. Watson remarked that iintroductory session to the third year should be explored.
Margie has beenrequested to send each committee member an updated copy of the curriculum membership as well as a copy of the Class Code of the 1st year class.
Dr. Genuardi would like to see a discussion on the evaluation of the 4th year students added to the retreat agenda for October.
Dr Rooks then asked members to sign up for at least one working group. He passsed out signup sheets. Margie will send notification of same through email so that members who were not present for signup will have an opportunity to be on a working group. Also, it was suggested that this be put on the website.
Dr. Goldfeder asked if the group remembered his presentation on Emergency Medicine and asked what other information that the committee might want from him or his department. Dr. Rooks responded to his query by stating that the issues have not been addressed as to two vs four weeks, who teaches what, teaching methodologies, line assignments.
Dr. Ledbetter asked the committee to take look at the overall big picture and not focus on one particular issue. He suggested we should come close to making decisions at least before the retreat. His suggestions included: what is the philosophy of this committee and what do we want to do, and what work do we want to have done before retreat.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 a.m. Next meeting scheduled for September 28, 7:30,M112.