Minutes

WVRHEP Evaluation Committee

September 11, 2006

Members Present: Rose Albert, Kathleen Bors, Sharon Giles, Jodie Jackson (Chair), Sara Miller, Dalena Riggs, Ken Shannon

Others present: Sharon Giles

Jodie Jackson introduced the new Professional Technologist in the Office of Rural Health, Rose Albert. Rose will be responsible for data requests and data integrity within the TRACKER system.

Jodie informed the committee of the status of the new version of TRACKER. Mike McCarthy is presently in the process of purchasing a new server. As soon as the new server arrives, he will upload the new version of TRACKER onto the server. He will keep everyone notified.

Jodie distributed the SERFE response rate for the time period, 1/1/06 – 6/30/06. Response rates have definitely improved now that students are getting three email reminders. The goal is to have a minimum response rate of 75%. Schools with 10 or more RHEP rotations that fell below 75% are MU medicine, MU nursing, WVU dental hygiene, WVU nursing, WVU-Chas medicine and WVUIT. Consortia falling below the 75% response rate are NWRHEC, Region 4 and WVHEC. Kathleen Bors stated that she would like to see a breakdown of the response rate for the WVU-Chas 3^rd year vs 4^th year RHEP students.

Kathleen Bors, MD, reported that the WVU med school is currently going through accreditation by LCME and that LCME considers the RHEP experience of med students a strength of the medical school’s ability to meet the Educational Directive #14, community and rural health experience.

Jodie discussed the following addition to Question #2 of the SERFE: to add “Participation in a web-based Interdisciplinary case study on SOLE” as one of the options of Question #2, “I had the opportunity to participate in the following interdisciplinary activities”. This new option would follow “Interdisciplinary (group) Session(s) (IDS”, “Observation of another or other discipline(s)” and “Participation in a project with another or other disciplines”. Students will be able to select one or more of the options and state the approximate number of hours spent in the activity and the quality of the activity (poor, fair, good, very good, and excellent). The Evaluation Committee was in favor of this addition and recommended that Jodie submit this to IRB after confirming with school representative and site coordinators that “SOLE” was an acronym that students will recognize. The question was asked whether or not there should be a question about the AHEC IDT as part of Question #2 of the SERFE. Jodie reported that questions about the AHEC IDT are covered by the questions at the end of the SERFE that are seen only by AHEC students.