Faculty Development Committee Meeting

June 4, 2006

In attendance: Dan Doyle, Dan Brody, April Vestal, Jill Cochran, Crystal Welch, Sandra Pope, Penny Asbury, Imogene Foster, Elizabeth Richmond

Dan Doyle discussed the Teaching Communication Skills Benedum grant and that this committee had agreed to be the advisory committee for this grant. We are staying on task for keeping these goals for the grant. Focus for Sept. 30 conference at WVSOM would be to focus on the communication model and work with it. Gail Swarm, DO and Gretchen Lovett will be doing presentations. Both work at WVSOM. There is a full schedule for the day with the conference starting at 10AM and ending at 5PM. April will be taking care of CME/CEU’s for disciplines and sending out room reservation information. There will also be a need for 12 role players which will role play patients during the training. We are looking to the faculty development committee members to fill these slots. There will be a short training for the role players prior to the conference from 8:30-9AM. Dr. Adelman has agreed to do a tour of the WVSOM campus which is optional for participants. The committee discussed the number of field faculty slots per consortia and AHEC region. It was suggested that the optimal would be the OSCD brining 2 junior partners with a total of three per RHEP site, with the site coordinators conferring with their AHEC center director on who to invite for a total of 24 participants. As soon as CME/CEU is approved, April will send out information to coordinators and center directors.

Policy on IDS – Dan discussed the possible need for the committee to look again at the IDS policy to see if recommended changed needed to be made. After some discussion, the committee decided to wait until after information from the SOLE project had been evaluated and then make policy change recommendations.

IDS presentation to Schools/Outreach – April, Jill, Elizabeth and Dan will present the idea for SOLE IDS modules to the Schools and Outreach committees at tomorrows meeting. Jill discussed that the modules would also encompass service-learning projects and students would be precepted by one facilitator regardless of which consortium they are rotating in. This is not meant to replace traditional IDS completely, but could be complimentary to IDS or could replace one session, depending upon the needs of the consortium. The goal is to begin in July with at least 3 pilot sites.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.