Others present: Norm Ferrari

Members Absent: Nancy Dunn, Kelly Fritts, Cindy Moats, Nancy Nedrow, Joanne Raines

Update on electronic evaluation Jodie Jackson gave an update on the August drawing for six prizes of $250 each.  Eligible students were those that had completed all RHEP evaluation forms requested of them between 1/1/01 and 6/30/01.  The winners for this year's drawing were:
Michelle Morrison, WVU, School of Medicine, Class of 2003
Michael Sanger, WVSOM, Class of 2001 (check sent)
Kevin Oxley, WVU, School of Medicine, Class of 2003
Janine Love, WVU, Dental Hygiene, Class of 2002
Matthew Miller, WVU, School of Dentistry, Class of 2001
Teresa Ritchie, WVU-Charleston, School of Nursing, Class of 2001
Checks will be sent out as soon as the WVU Office of Rural Health receives verification of addresses and other info from the student-winners.

The schedule of automatic reminder emails (to complete the RHEP evaluation) was discussed.  Currently, Campus Coordinators do not receive a copy of the reminder email sent to the student until 3 weeks after the rotation has ended, which is a copy of the 3rd reminder email sent to the student.  Campus coordinators would like to receive a copy earlier of the email sent to the student one week after completion of the rotation.  Jodie will follow-up on this with Mike McCarthy.

Ken Shannon reported on preliminary data from the Medical Student Baseline Data Questionnaire.   This information concerned demographic data or questionnaire responses that correlated with the reported intent to practice in WV and in rural areas.  Factors associated with the likelihood of living in West Virginia after training included
1) home city rural, 2) West Virginia home, 3) primary care as their preferred area of specialization and 4) interest in practicing in a town of <10,000.  Factors associated with the likelihood of practicing in a town with a population < 10,000 included 1) responding affirmatively that they were likely to stay in West Virginia, 2) stating that they were from a rural home town, 3) devaluing the importance of career prestige, 4) devaluing the importance of career income, and 5) having a primary care intent.
 Helen Baker presented a revised copy of the site coordinator evaluation of RHEP students used by some of the consortium for review by the Evaluation Committee.  The Evaluation Committee voted that this form be presented to the School Committee and the site coordinators for approval AND that use of this form be encouraged.  The School Committee should decide who the "point people" should be at each school.  Introduction to this form should be part of the rural orientation.  Evaluation and feedback to school faculty need to take place in a timely fashion.

Discussion ensued regarding if and how RHEP can address the malpractice problem in the state.  Ken Shannon has some data that might be useful to the legislative discussion which he volunteered to pass on to Alicia Tyler.