MINUTES FROM THE CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT AND POLICY STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
July 9, 2009 at 7:00 a.m.
Members Present:
Newton, Chair,
Bashford,
Stewart,
Stone,
Verma,
Yankaskas
TOPIC
Information Items
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Byerley,
Chaney,
Chhotani,
Cross,
Dent,
DISCUSSION
LCME internal review report went to Roper and Pisano and
was received favorably. In September, it will go to Chairs and
Curriculum Committee.
Welcome to Kurt Gilliland in CC1 Co-Director role;
congratulations to Kurt and Tim for fellowship alumni
scholarship.
Budget follow-up is still uncertain. Likely to be laying off
support staff within OME.
Stage 1 of Berryhill/Bondurant/MacNider on calendar – but
still depends on State planning and insurance processes. Phase
II is scheduled for December. Thanks to the students for their
leadership in this and for ongoing management.
CMPC will meet as the old committee sometime in August –
there’s a lot of work to do. Then, there will be a retreat of the
new Curriculum Committee in late August/September and
regular meetings thereafter. There will be educational
convocation of all of our core faculty in November. We’re
setting up those dates.
Asheville – Students started on 7/6/09. Evaluation is being
planned by Heck, Dent, Steiner, and Asheville faculty. LCME
has accepted report for Asheville. Charlotte will be done in the
fall. Developing of the LCME report made us realize that there
is a lot of work that needs to be done across the state (eg.
MOA, local deans, student services, etc.).
 C1-C2 Committees are working on plan for Step 1. We will
review those plus the students’ survey at the next CMPC
meeting.
 AIMS redesign will be finished shortly. It should be much
more faculty and user-friendly; a new name will be
Farrell,
Ingersoll,
Rao,
Roberts,
Shaheen,
ACTION ITEMS
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Assistant/Associate
Dean for
Curriculum Job
Description
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necessary.
Student Team Evaluations – We decided the focus will be
on student team functioning for next year. Several first
year courses will pilot and link into the Myers-Briggs
orientation session. The rationale is that small groups are a
key educational modality for us.
Possible roles – Lead Office of Teaching & Learning;
liaison to Curriculum Committees and individual Course
Directors, oversee evaluation and assessment; support
faculty research with an increasing focus on outcomes.
Comments:
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Exam
Proctors/Process &
Contact
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Are we interested in going outside as well as inside for
candidates? Yes, send suggestions.
We need somebody with medical education experience so
we don’t have to train them.
There’s a lot of overlap between Student Affairs – yes, they
need to be coordinated but in part, there’s also been
involvement of Student Affairs in curricular issues because
there was a vacuum.
There are many people like this in Surgery and other
disciplines. Yes, send possible names.
Nick and Kathleen were not here but we need to either set
or reaffirm policy re: proctors.
Comments included:
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Faculty will be immediately available for
exams but will not answer content
questions.
Newton will follow up with Shaheen and
Rao.
There exists a policy which underscores that proctors
shouldn’t respond to content questions. Occasionally there
are major problems such as scrambled questions on exams
and faculty need to be able to respond to that.
MSTL/OIS has a good sense for how to proctor an exam
but appropriately will not get involved in assessment of sins
against academic integrity.
CCI: faculty need to address.
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Faculty
Development topics
for 2009/2010
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ICM Change Task
Force
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We have a robust honor code, and there is not evidence of a
problem of cheating at this time.
Newton’s “straw man” includes a series of sessions that
relate to teaching and learning – course objectives,
measurement of competencies, exam construction,
psychometrics. Large and small group teams. A second
area might be educational management skills – including
leading meetings, task forces, small group leadership.
Developing a program for faculty development next year
will be a key goal. Ideas for how it might be structured and
what content might be:
Intellectual property
Educational technology including video, audience response,
etc.
General gaps
There should be some sort of needs assessment and a
faculty committee reviewing this.
Educational grand rounds were a success here, although
they don’t need to be monthly. Could they get added?
Newton summarized another year of disappointing
evaluations for ICM. ICM leadership is putting in place
changes for this year. Newton will charge a task force to
address strategic issues for ICM. Overall strategy that the
course must fix specific organizational issues while
separately a faculty task force will review strategic issues
related to ICM. Those include:
o Several courses in different years?
o Balance of community and clinical medicine
o Structure/content of ICM/Community experience
o Structure and training of UNC faculty
o Training of community faculty
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Newton will get input from groups and
bring to new Curriculum Committee for
approval as a goal for next year.
Other comments included:
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Clinical skills are related to this and we need to deal with it
– perhaps after dealing with basic design of ICM.
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Next Meeting
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There have been some improvements this year in terms of
content and the baby shouldn’t be thrown out with the bath
water.
Thursday, August 13, 2009, 7-8 AM, 4038 Bondurant Hall.
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