School Committee Meeting

November 17, 2003

Meeting Minutes

In attendance: Carla See, Patti Crawford, Sonnie Strader, Marilyn Fox, Rosie Cannarella, Elizabeth Richmond, Malinda Turner, Gaye Mitchell, Dick Meckstroth, April Vestal, Imogene Foster, Gail McClung, Dan Brody, Stephanie Schuler, Hilda Heady, Henry Taylor

The meeting was called to order by Imogene Foster at 11:35 am

Introductions were presented and welcomes were made.

The minutes from meeting on September 15, 2003 were reviewed. There

was a motion and second to accept the minutes (Meckstroth/Fox).

Old Business

1. The committee discussed the follow up concerning Medical School

sub-committee on Field Faculty Adjunct appointments. This matter

will be presented to the Advisory Panel for vote.

2. The needlestick policy will be in the next panel vote and presented in

policy format. The final version was circulated via email by JoAnn Raines who chaired the sub-committee. Carla suggested that every discipline/school needs a needlestick policy. The RHEP/School Committee will recommended

this policy.

New Business

1. Student Advisory Committee---April stated that it was hard to find and retain volunteers for the student advisory committee. Patti made the suggestion of have electronic evaluations done by the students so they could voice their opinions on approvements that might be made with RHEP without being afraid of getting in trouble. Rosie Cannarella stated it would be a good idea for the Student Advisory Committee to bring a student with them and meet for a couple of hours in March. Carla said the students would enjoy sitting down with the site coordinator’s and do the exit interviews. Also, it would be a good idea to send a neutral party into the meetings to hear what the students have to say. There was a motion and second (Elizabeth/Patti) to bring students to the next Student Advisory Panel meeting.

2. Volunteer to sit on Outreach/Curriculum Sub-Committee---April explained that

this item was discussed in the Outreach Joint Meeting and was decided that it was

not necessary to appoint someone at this time.

3. Need to develop criteria for selection of WVRHEP sites---There is a need for sub-committee to define appropriate Rural Health sites. There was criteria discussion. Each school needs to look at their rural sites and ask themselves if it is truly a rural area. Only the panel can make the decision on whether to add or remove a site as recommended by a local board. This committee can make recommendations on the definition of rural. Hilda reminded the committee that any change in definition will affect the evaluation portion of the program. These changes are time consuming and costly for the program. Dr. Taylor suggested criteria for select rural placement should be quality of care, geography (MUA) and others? Imogene Foster suggested the concept of vulnerability of the population as a possible criteria. Educational goals were also suggested as a consideration. The volunteers for the sub-committee to follow up on definition of rural sites will be Carla See, Jo Ann Raines, Henry Taylor, Imogene Foster, Norm Ferrari and Stephanie Schuler.

4. Other----No other discussions were made.

5. Adjournment---With no further time for business there was a motion and second

(Brody/Mecksroth) to adjourn.