The meeting was called to order by Chair, Annie McIntosh.

Introductions of those in attendance were made.

A discussion on the role of a community member was held and the role was defined as follows:
1. Know the resources and needs of the respective areas and facilitate between professionals and community.
2. Assist staff with the knowledge of the community in moving our mission forward.
3. Publicize ourselves/ Public awareness.
4. Advocate to link needs and resources with political and educational institution and that the community’s needs are in focus.
5. Be Stewards of the Partnership - keep focus and balance.
6. Be obligated to make health professional schools keep their feet on the ground - the reality.  Health care professionals sometimes can be so “heavenly minded that they are no earthly good”.
7. Monitor local health care system that ultimately supports the community.
8. Be an advocate for RHEP in a program sense; the go-between for students and program; students may open up more to community members.
9. Maintaining community focus as the high part of the program.
10. Stress importance of community buy-in for sustainability and future of program and growth.

What is a community member?  What is their role and contribution?
1. How much difference do we make?
? Community members could do more than they are now.
? Discuss with students what is going on in the community.
? Be a resource for students in community service activities.
2. Confusion and controversy around community service.  We need to make sure the
community service is relevant and meaningful and we have a role in this.  Need to think how to make community service more long range to change and impact health outcomes.
3. Projects are the community’s and students’ move in and out of the projects.
4. Students could research needs of community.  Struggle with faculty and students resenting community service.  All students need to learn how to determine what their patients and communities need.
5. Community members and student teams attend and/or conduct IDS.  Community member act as a consultant to the problem based learning process.
6. A state level orientation needed for new community members.
7. A need to be careful with professional jargon and lingo in meetings and in work with community members.  State all acronyms in full terms not just initials.

Specific Roles/Activities

1. How can local consortia board members help the process to identify long-term community service?
2. How can community work with site coordinators to do this?
3. Do community members want a regular meeting time?  How much time?

Meeting adjourned at 2:00 PM.
 Off the Flip Chart Sheets

ROLE OF COMMUNITY (MEMBER)
1. Knowledge of needs and resources of Community
2. Facilitate between Institution  (students) and Community
3. Increase awareness, advocacy
4. Stewards – Monitors
5. Keeping physicians on the ground “So heavenly minded no earthly good”
6. Permanence of the program values

COMMUNITY MEMBER ACTIVITIES
1. Determining “value” & “appropriateness” of community service
2. Serve as a resource to IDS

WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF COMMUNITY GROUP?
1. Discuss local issues at state level (Are programs problems – local or systemic)
2. Create Solution
3. Holding Program Accountable

AGENDA ITEMS
Questions?
1. Why are rotations shortening?
2. How does this group implement change?
3. What authority, power of policy enforcement does the advisory panel have?

1. To establish a forum that serves to better inform and empower community members to realize their role and responsibilities, duty and ability to affect policy.
2. To identify and act upon programmatic issues.

AGENDA
1. Identify problems and concerns of local consortia (i.e. Orientation)
A. Length of Rotation
B. Quality of Community Service
C. Procedures of Policy Development
D. Program Accountability
2. distillation of problems that are identified as systemic
3. Develop policy to address these issues
4. Develop strategies to implement change.