LSUHSC-SOM Faculty Assembly
Meeting Minutes
April 3, 2014
Opening: The regular meeting of the LSUHSC-SOM Faculty Assembly was called to
order at 4:03PM in Room 7 of the Lions Building by Dr. Michael Levitzky
Present: Boulmay, B; Campeau, L; Conrad, E; Crabtree, J; English, R; Foster, T;
Hebert, C; Holman, S; Kamboj, S; Lazartigues, E; Levitzky, M; McGoey, R; Mussell, J;
Neumann, D; Quayle, A; Welsh, D; Winsauer, P
Absent: Avegno, J; Cestia, W; Dawkins, R; Delacroix, S; Happel, K; Hunt, J; Jagneaux,
T; Kapusta, D; Spieler, B; Thien, D
Proxies: Neumann, D for Ali, M; Edwards, S for Harrison-Bernard, L; Crabtree, J for
Hollenbach, A
1. Approval of the minutes from March meeting: Dr. Lazartigues moved to approve
minutes for March and was seconded by Dr. Crabtree. Motion was approved
unanimously
2. Reports:
 Executive Council – no report
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Administrative Council
o Run by Dr. Letourneau
1. May 6th is date of General Faculty Meeting – lunch provided
2. Academic advancement workshops
a. April 22nd – Baton Rouge
b. April 23rd – Lafayette
3. Searches
a. Genetics
i. 11 candidates down to 5
ii. Phone interviews early April
b. Ortho
i. Phone interviews completed
c. Family Medicine
i. Close to complete
d. Heme Onc
i. USC candidate making 2nd visit
4. International travel
a. Moving to an electronic process with fillable .pdf’s
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b. Move onus for approval onto department/center
heads with request for travel submitted prior to
abstract submission
c. Restrictions on travel to Canada will be less stringent
d. Invited attendance is only subject to PM11
e. Dr. Foster also mentioned that Dean Nelson has
revoked frequent flyer exemptions on faculty
i. All staff are now on equal footing
5. Conversations with Children’s are ongoing as we continue to
work on the public/private partnership and come to a
satisfactory conflict management plan for the new hospital
and hiring and affiliation agreements
6. April 7, 2014 will be LSU day at the Louisiana legislature
a. Centered on Baton Rouge campus but LSUHSC is
involved
b. Many faculty expressed displeasure over lack of
notice
i. Will be discussed in Executive Council with
Dean Nelson
7. No information on budget or promotion/raises but Dean
Nelson believes there will be no change or further cuts
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Faculty Senate Report
o Professor Kevin Cope (LSU-BR) will be brought down to discuss
changes to employer contribution to ORP
o Vice-Chancellor is in support of increasing the amount of AEDs
on campus – in the process of pricing
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The Pulse – current issue just published
o The frequency of publication was discussed by the faculty with a
desire expressed for more frequent publication
1. Lack of Medical School communications officer and
publishing staff discussed as main impediments to more
frequent issues
2. Question of more frequent issues with fewer pages raised
3. Old Business:
 Curriculum Renewal
o Update to be given at Faculty Meeting May 6th
o 1st year will be department based
o 2nd year will be systems based
o 2 system blocks are under consideration as models for the
remaining blocks
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1. Proposed weeks with proposed amounts of content delivery
and active learning generated
Meeting with 2nd year course directors April 7th
Starting to look at 1st year structure
Curriculum Steering Committee liked the proposed model and
urged continued development
Implementation of plan for 1st year in August 2015
Implementation of plan for 2nd in July 2016
LCME Site visit 2017
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Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
o Core component of the SACS-COC reaffirmation
o Targeted educational plan to enhance student learning
o Interprofessional Education (IPE) chosen as the QEP
1. Defined as: When 2 or more students from different
professions learn with, from, and about each other to learn
about healthcare
o Goal: All students will have IPE experience during tenure at
LSUHSC
o There will be a contest for students and faculty to develop logo for
QEP
1. Significant prize for the contest
o QEP information is available on the LSUHSC website
1. Will contain meeting minutes, etc.
2. QEP is required to be visible to all LSUHSC community
members
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Faculty Assembly Awards
o Winners were awarded in all categories
1. Some nominees from the Junior Faculty committee were
moved to Service to the Community
o Overall we had a good number of nominations and Dean Nelson
is aware of the winners
4. New Business/Announcements:
 CFAS (Council of Faculty and Academic Societies – part of AAMC)
o Dr. McGoey reported on the recent CFAS meeting
o 125 of 140 medical schools represented
o Task forces created
1. Dr. Levitzky was assigned to chair the Basic Science
Working Group
2. Dr. Varner assigned to the Advocacy Committee
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3. Dr. McGoey assigned to the Communications Committee
a. Task to improve communication between faculty and
AAMC, between medical schools, between the CFAS
committees, and across the basic and clinical
sciences
b. Prefer email to social media
o Communication committee
1. Focus on bidirectional communication strategies
a. Advocacy is chief point
b. Project Medical Education
i. 2 day visit by local legislators to Medical
Schools were the entire medical school
experience is replicated with them as the
students
o They may extend the appointment of current representatives
given the time to generate progress due to nascent state of the
group
5. Adjournment: Dr. Welsh moved to adjourn and the motion was seconded by Dr.
English. Motion was approved unanimously and meeting was adjourned at 5:09
Minutes submitted by: Jason C Mussell
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