Minutes

WVRHEP Evaluation Committee

March 12, 2007

 

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

 

Others present:  Hilda Heady, Christi Pritt (HEPC)

 

Jodie presented the new format for the consortia bar charts representing the SERFE data (all consortia represented one the same chart).  She asked Dalena to get feedback from site coordinators at their meeting the next day.

 

Jodie Jackson informed the Evaluation Committee that Version 3 of TRACKER was up and running as of 9:40 PM on Wednesday, March 7, 2007.  Mike McCarthy is encouraging users to email him with any problems they encounter.

 

Jodie informed the Evaluation Committee that the revision to Question #2 of the SERFE (to add “Participation in a web-based Interdisciplinary case study on SOLE” as one of the IDS options to evaluate) was implemented 12/06/06.

 

Ken Shannon, MD, informed the group that he will be presenting on Factors Promoting Participation as Rural Medical Preceptors at the SGEA (Southern Group for Educational Affairs) in the 3rd week of April in Kentucky.  Data for this presentation came from the 2005 survey of RHEP graduates in rural practice.

 

Hilda suggested that Jodie initiate the writing of an RHEP evaluation policy.  RHEP has never had such a policy.  The policy would cover all aspects of evaluation, including suggested strategies for increasing the SERFE response rate.  She suggested that the policy be emailed to site coordinators and AHEC directors (and possibly, the Evaluation Committee) in advance before being brought to the June or September Evaluation Committee and Advisory Panel.

 

Dalena Riggs inquired about the faculty development survey, specifically, how often it was implemented and when it would next be sent out.  She said that sending out the surveys in June did not work well for her nursing faculty – that they weren’t at their workplace during the summer to receive the survey.  Jodie explained that this task had never been under the purview of the Evaluation Committee – that it was a task handled by the Faculty Development Committee and spearheaded by Helen Baker of WVSOM.  Jodie will ask April Vestal about the plans for this.