Joint Outreach/Schools Committee Meeting

Monday, June 5, 2006

Minutes

In Attendance: Carla See, Norman Ferrari, April Vestal, Dan Brody, Dick Meckstroth, Jill Cochran, Kathryn Greenlief, Elizabeth Richmond, Brenda Michael, Kathleen Bors, Patti Crawford, Haylee Heinsberg, Charissa Davis, Sarah Miller, Dennis McCutcheon, Imogene Foster, Jenny Ostien, Nannette VanDyke-McDonald, Sharon Giles, Sandra Pope, Lora Adkins, Sonnie Strader, Anna Reno, Dave Brown, Crystal Welch, Penny Asbury, Carla Campbell, Malinda Turner

Approval of Minutes – Minutes were approved with no corrections

Unfinished Business

Levels Policy Recommendations from Site Coordinators - Jodie Jackson distributed a packet of information that listed the each county's number of student weeks, level as of 7/1/05 and 7/1/06, 2005 HPSA status, and capacity information. The document also discussed the methodology and cut off for being Level III. The committee discussed

this document as well as the increased class sizes at all health science schools especially medical schools. The committee discussed future possibilities. One suggestion was to allow rotations in the restricted cities. This discussion was tabled until the next meeting

due to time limitations of the meeting.

1. Faculty Development Committee recommendations regarding IDS/Service Learning – April, Dan, Jill and Elizabeth presented the IDS SOLE module in which students would participate in an on-line educational interdisciplinary module at 3 pilot sites (Southern, SEEC, NWVRHEC Region 2, formerly Little Kanawha). Jill explained what she called community based learning. The concept of Community Based Learning (CBL), including community-based education and service-learning, is not new. Rather it is a combination of tried and true methods that have each been successful. This framework involves components of community and public health, Healthy People 2010 Objectives, Service Learning, and the Institute of Medicine Report. This CBL module does not require group process and can be done at any computer. The student will choose the health topic and proceed through a module that contains both national, state and community health demographics. As the student goes through the module, they will pick a community service project that will be ongoing within the consortium in which they are currently participating in their West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnership (WVRHEP) Consortium or West Virginia Area Health Education Centers (WVAHEC) Interdisciplinary Team Project. The project will relate to the topic studied. After the community service is completed, the student will return to the module and complete a reflective piece on what was learned from the project.

The goals of the project are:

1. facilitate a view of service learning and community service that is applicable to health science students

2. To create a process of learning that views the health problems of the state and allows the student to view health from the eye of the community and state rather than the patient

3. To introduce or give the student a working knowledge of how Healthy People 2010 is utilized in health care

4. To incorporate competencies of the Institute Of Medicine into solving health problems

5. To contribute to interdisciplinary- based community learning while reducing travel and linking students to resources available through the universities and communities on specific health problems

The goal is to have the first module up and ready for students by July 1. Each discipline would have specific learning objectives that would be linked to their discipline specific objectives at their institution. April discussed that she felt the module participation should be a part of the students’ overall grade. Dr. Ferrari said that this could be worked out during the year of piloting the program and that the committee should explore this recommendation further. Grading cannot be implemented until the project goes statewide.

The joint committees unanimously approved the SOLE module project and agreed that it should be piloted for one year with a continual evaluation throughout the year.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.