West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships

 

School Committee Meeting Minutes

 

Monday, July 21, 2003

 

Days Inn, Flatwoods

 

 

In Attendance:  Marilyn Fox, Sonnie Strader, Norman Ferrari, Patti Crawford, Alicia Tyler, Jane Sullivan, Malinda Turner, Elizabeth Richmond, Ralph Utzman, Sandra Pope, April Vestal, Sonya McClelland, Hilda Heady, Robert Walker, Jon Willis, Kathleen Bors, Henry Taylor

 

Approval of Minutes:  The minutes of the May 19, 2003 School Committee meeting were approved unanimously following a change from “Eastern Counties Board of Directors” to “Eastern Consortium Board of Directors”.

 

Old Business

 

LCME site visit to Marshall:

Robert Walker gave a power point presentation regarding findings from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education site visit to MU School of Medicine.  He stated the main emphasis was on faculty ownership of curriculum.  The one area the committee focused on was the supervision of student learning experiences must be provided throughout required clerkships by members of the medical school’s faculty.  Therefore, all field faculty must be appointed by all three medical schools.  Dr. Ferrari clarified that a clerkship is required of third year students and is longer than one month, typically 8-10 weeks.  A rotation is for fourth year students and lasts about 4 weeks.  Dr. Walker stated the committee does not want RHEP or politicians to control items like curriculum.  Hilda stated the mandate comes from the Higher Education Policy Commission, not RHEP.  There also must be comparable educational experience and equivalent methods of evaluation across all instructional sites within a given discipline.  Effective July 2004 all medical students should learn in a clinical environment where graduate and continuing medical education programs are present.  Hilda suggested letting the medical school group of the school committee come up with suggestions for dealing with this matter of multiple school adjunct appointments and other issues concerning faculty ownership of curricula and to send these suggestions on to the evaluation and school committees.  Dr. Ferrari stated it will probably come down to all RHEP faculty having appointment by all schools.

 

Minimum requirements for RHEP student status:

The revised policy was presented at the March meeting.  It is on the agenda for the advisory panel to review today.  Hilda stated that Debra Riggs of ROVER had asked Imogene to include vocational students so to include the LPN students of Reynolds Memorial Hospital.  This would be a total of 600 students.  She stated that it had already been determined that they could use RHEP resources but not be put into Tracker due to not being an institution of higher education.  Alicia said the argument had been made to count them due to the nursing shortage, but that shortage applies to RNs only, not LPNs.

 

Eastern Division Variance Request

 

Hilda explained that the committee was scheduled to provide feedback on the variance request for 3^rd year medical students from the WVU Eastern Division Campus in the Eastern Panhandle.  However, Barry Linger or Mike Friedland could not be present at today’s meeting to discuss the variance request and any questions or comments from the committee.  For that reason, the discussion will be tabled until the September Schools Committee meeting when a representative from the eastern division can attend.  

 

New Business

 

Recommendations of the Visions Workgroup of the State Advisory Panel Outreach/Curriculum “Working Document” – Reports of sub-committees:

Hilda stated there needs to be a volunteer at the next meeting who is on both the school committee and the outreach/curriculum committee to be a liaison between the two committees for goals of Vision.

 

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.