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WVRHEP
Joint Community Outreach/Curriculum Committee
Meeting Minutes
Monday, September 20, 1999

Members In Attendance:  Kathleen Bors, Annie McIntosh, April Vestal, Karen 
Fahey, Dennis McCutcheon, James Nemitz, Richard Meckstroth, JoAnn Raines, 
Patricia Crawford, Bill Duty, Jennifer Allen, Amy Thomas

Others In Attendance:  Jacquelynn Copenhaver, Kathryn Greenlief, Richard 
Meckstroth, Chuck Conner
II.     Approval of Minutes  July 19,1999 (Allen/Meckstroth)

III.    Old Business
a.      The draft of the Community Outreach Manual for Health Profession 
Students has been disseminated to WVRHEP committees for comment and has 
also been posted in draft form on the web at 
www.wvrhep.org/comm_out_man.html.  Currently, the manual refers to Healthy 
People 2000 Goals and Objectives, but will be changed to reflect the 
Healthy People 2010 Goals when they are released in April 2000. Research 
contacts have been listed for all three schools.  Final approval of the 
manual as an official document for WVRHEP is on the agenda for today's 
Advisory Panel meeting.  As suggested by the committee at the previous 
meeting, the manual will go to all school schedulers, and site coordinators 
as well as on the web, and should be used in orientations with WVRHEP 
students.  Other comments were that the manual would help differentiate 
between community service and research and would reiterate why community 
service is important.
Jacquelynn reported that the New River Research Manual will also be 
published on the web.
b.      April reported on the Faculty Development Lunch session which will 
be held on Saturday, September 25, 1999 at AB College in Phillipi.  The 
session will be a panel discussion of programs that have impacted 
WVRHEP.  Speakers include Cecil Pollard on the Diabetes project, Bill Neal 
on the CARDIAC project, Jill Rosenthal on RHAP leadership, Sarah Jane 
Gainor on the Geriatric Education Center and Ken Shannon, WVU Family 
Medicine on a statewide research project.
c.      Committee Structure  April discussed structure of the community 
outreach/curriculum committee and suggested that three sub-committees 
should be formed in order to handle different pieces:  Curriculum, 
Community Outreach, and Research.  There was some discussion as to whether 
these sub-committees needed to exist.  Each sub-committee would need to 
discuss objectives/goals for their committee and what they wish to focus 
upon.  The committee decided to receive feedback from the Advisory Panel on 
whether this would be the best structure to handle issues.  Committee 
members and guests present were asked to indicate the sub-committee in 
which they would like to participate.
Community Outreach:  Karen Fahey, Jennifer Allen, Patricia Crawford, Amy 
Thomas,
Curriculum:  James Nemitz, Chuck Conner
Research:
d.      Meeting Structure - Each sub-committee should have a chair and 
April asked committee members to be thinking about who might best chair 
these sub-committees and the structure of the membership.  Members of the 
committee could sign up for any sub-committees they were interested in and 
they could meet during the first hour (8:30-9:30AM) and the full committee 
would meet 9:30-10:30AM with reports from the sub-committees.  Each of the 
sub-committees would need to define clearly the types of issues they would 
like to deal with as a committee.

There was a suggestion that the sub-committee could receive information via 
a problem list as used previously.  The structure of the sub-committees was 
approved (Bors/Crawford).

IV.     New Business
a.      Bill reported that Lamont Nottingham is involved with an 
interdisciplinary project dealing with cardiovascular issues.  Students 
will be presenting on this project at the Rural Health Conference.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.