Faculty Development Committee Meeting
January 23, 2006
Meeting Minutes
In attendance: Ralph Utzman, Helen Baker, Jill Cochran, Rosemarie Cannarella, Dan Brody, Sandra Pope, Kim Martin, Carla See, Sharon Giles, Imogene Foster, Penny Asbury, Crystal Welch, Derrick Day
Minutes from December 2005 The committee reviewed and approved the December 2005 minutes.
Tuesday Presentation Discussion & Rehearsal Derrick assisted the group with AV needs for their presentation to health profession students scheduled for tomorrow in the health sciences auditorium from 12:30 1:30PM.
Evaluation form for students The committee went over the evaluation form developed for the introductory session with students tomorrow, made some changes and will distribute as students go into the auditorium and collect as they leave.
Review comments/feedback from consortiums regarding IDS/IDE Helen handed out SERFE Evaluation data from 1/1/05 to 6/30/05. The comments included were for medicine only. Helen explained that as a dean of WVSOM they expect excellence in evaluation of the courses they teach. The overall educational quality of the rotation meets this criteria but others such as community service and IDS do not meet that criteria. What can the schools live with? What happens if a student does not come to IDS? Suggestion to have one session per month and all sites would do the same session with objectives.
Issues:
Quality 1) IDS Manual Enforcement
2) IDS facilitator training
3) Standardized cases w/ objectives.
Attendance What is really required What can school do to enforce
Value of session given by student Who assigns value of these sessions to students
What problems do school reps see in current IDS/IDE/experiences of students
Discussion of variability of service learning and accreditation issues
Planning/implementing
WVSOM Faculty Development Helen discussed the plan thus far. The committee decided that September 30, 2006 would be the best date. 3 persons would be invited per consortium and the other invitations would be reserved for faculty development committee members. Helen said her committee would be meeting and work out the details in the next couple of months. April agreed to write a letter of invitation that scs could use to invite and send that to the committee for feedback.
Faculty development survey
Feb meeting with school reps Dan said that the meeting with school representatives from WVSOM and Marshall representatives would be held at 4PM on Monday, February 20, 2006. Opportunity to discuss IDS and Service Learning concerns and brainstorm.
Meeting with WVU School Representatives
In attendance: Dick Meckstroth WVU Dentistry, Ralph Utzman Clinical Education WVUSOPT, Mary Stamatacas WVU School of Pharmacy, Imogene Foster WVUSON, Annette McDonald WVUSON, Norman Ferrari WVUSOM
Follow up on concerns brought up at strategic planning meeting regarding interdisciplinary sessions and evaluation from students
Brainstorm on thoughts that would help improve experience for accreditation and clinical requirements and quality of this curricular component of the RHEP Program
Looked at evaluation data Feedback you are getting from students and how it is impacting your program, major concerns etc.
Norman Ferrari be really broad with that and consider stopping IDS sessions altogether as opposed to tweaking it. This is probably the thing most complained about. Duplicate IDS students saying this is not working. Why continue? Honestly reflect and say has it outlived its usefulness. No LCME requirement that you have to have it. Something unique to the RHEP program training with other health care professionals not a bad thing, but its like having dinner with someone your are not really sure you even like. Like interdisciplinary education as in doing rounds with other disciplines with real live patients. Students identify this as a weakness.
Dr. McDonald rave reviews, extremely happy with it. First time they are interacting with other students. Attendance is required and nursing students have specific objectives. Concerns with graduate level nursing students have to deal with drive times and making sure flexibility is maintained. NPs are preparing for their exams and what they are learning in the session will help them w/ their boards. No accreditation issues in fact it is an enrichment to work with rural issues.
Dick Meckstroth questions the value of IDS. Group reflection held each time students come back from their RHEP rotations. Asked to share aspects of their experience. Students not really happy about IDS, a couple with be verbal about it and indicate it is worthless. Accreditation really not an issue. One thing of concern is that so many do not feel it is of value and dentistry is not typically included. Driving distance is an issue. Appreciating other disciplines is of value. Would not be sad at all if IDS as it is currently known went away. There are other ways of doing it that would make it worthwhile.
Ralph Utzman Meets w/ focus group at end of rotation and meets with preceptors. Some enjoy and some do not. Students that tend to appreciate it like it because it is case based and used to what they do. Feel they are accepted and appreciated. Lecture based not related to PT and if they feel like they are not a part of the session are the ones complained about. Accreditation requirement about consultation with other provider groups cant get evaluation of students performance because a lot of time the instructor is not there. We have to answer this question for accreditation. Require students to do community service. New accreditation criteria and there is language strengthening content of service learning and clinical learning objectives. Have to be careful that clinical instructors include complete evaluations. Thinking about putting community health promotion piece into their curriculum that the clinical instructor would supervise.
WVUSOP positive and negative feedback. Major revision to accreditation standards will see these changes in next month. Interdisciplinary not required but is only formalized opportunity for pharmacy students to interact with other students. In process of implementing early experiences required to complete these projects during second year.
People see value in getting disciplines together but lecture type interaction is not good. Best way to deliver this is difficult.
Discussion of having IDS perhaps once per month on a specific area or topic throughout the state (ex: Jan dental health, feb breast cancer). Specific objectives to meet for each discipline. Standardize a visit to a nursing home, add preventive health care. Reflective piece is critical to all of this.
Dan mentioned that they will be meeting with Charleston and Marshall representatives on February 20.
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.