Community Outreach/Curriculum Committee Meeting

Minutes

Monday, November 15, 2004

Attendance: April Vestal, Kathryn Greenlief, Carla See, Richard Meckstroth, Dennis McCutcheon, Patti Crawford, Dalena Riggs, Jodie Jackson, Hilda Heady, Abira Roy, Kathleen Bors

Introductions were made for the benefit of guests attending the meeting

Minutes of the September 2004 meeting were reviewed and approved

Old Business

Visions Document deadline discussed; Henry Taylor had developed a Power Point presentation for the Advisory Panel 9/04, unable to present due to schedule; Derrick will make this available on the web; will be distributed to chairs, with a form designed by April to encourage Chairs to add to form with each RHEP-wide meeting; report back to April, who will add to report

Annual Report will be developed from these updates, and reviewed by JOCC each November meeting, to present to Hilda each January for incorporation into Legislative report.

JOCC itself will review this updating process with each quarterly meeting

New Business

Community Service Requirement for RHEP Students reviewed; Hilda has charged the JOCC and Schools Committee to address the quality of the Community Service component of the RHEP curriculum; this is in response to an accumulation of negative criticism on end-evaluation from RHEP students regarding the clinical relevance of some community service projects

Deadline to Hilda is March '05

Suggestion formed to develop a Task Force, to meet in a one-day retreat format to address issue and propose remedy; discussion remainder of JOCC meeting, which continued into Schools Committee meeting

Meeting adjourned

Following are suggestions generated by both JOCC and Schools Committees on 11/15 for proposed Task Force retreat

Information necessary to address goal would include:

1) Data/evaluations themselves; seeking a pattern, if exists - data by discipline, by site, by particular project

Jodie asked to develop this info to present to Task Force

2)Tools to evaluate the community service projects: Service Learning Objectives/ RHEP Graduate Outcomes/ PEW Competencies/HP2010 ; avoid reinventing the wheel, but revisit the definition of "valuable" community service; address the school/campus role in orienting the student to the value of Service Learning prior to the student's RHEP rotation; schools role in supporting the idea that community service is important - identify the way service learning fits into each school's curriculum

3) remind/revise Site Coordinator responsibility for entering the community service data into Tracker in an accurate manner

4)suggest adding a required "reflective piece"; some sites do this; suggestion for award for best student reflection;

improve format for student choice of service project, and require student to identify the value of the project (ie, how it applies to above Objectives, etc) in the written reflective piece

5) identify responsibility for overseeing these suggestions; develop mechanism for measuring improvement in student evaluation of community service projects

Suggested Task Force members: Jodie, April, Patti, Richard, Carla , Barry Linger, Shannon, Norm, Hilda, Henry Taylor, Rosie, a Marshall rep, and Imogene and/or Kathleen chairing

*****Important Note: Rosie expressed interest at end of Schools Committee meeting in being very involved with this project, in light of her work with Faculty Development in Service Learning over past few years*****

ALSO - a good idea would be to include a former RHEP student(s), any discipline, but perhaps one with and one without good experience with community service, if identifiable