THE SECOND-YEAR CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
April 28, 2009: 4 p.m. -5:30 p.m. in 133 MacNider
In Attendance:
Kathleen Rao
Nick Shaheen
Robert Bashford
Craig Burkhart
Frank Church
Alan Cross
Amy Denham
Georgette Dent
Jean Dostou
Ken Dudley
Gerald Hladik
Debbie Keelean-Fuller
Ryan Madanick
Howard Reisner
Jeffrey Sonis
Frank Wilson
Harneet Gujral
Deborah Ingersoll
Eve Juliano
Lara Handler
John Woosley
Julia West
Mindy Roush
1. Integrated Cases in First Year: An Opportunity to Collaborate:
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Kurt Gilliland reviewed how CC1 will be integrating clinical cases through the first-year blocks.
A subcommittee was formed to find various ways in which courses were using cases and consider developing
some type common thread throughout the first year which could be used by the students.
They reviewed why they used cases:
o Introduce ideas of teamwork;
o Clinical reasoning;
o Critical thinking;
o Self-directive learning;
o Promote general skills;
o Population-based medicine;
o Evidence-based medicine;
They wanted to find ways to tie together basic aspects of basic science curriculum and clinical curriculum.
They tried to identify common diseases that would be relevant for the curriculum.
o There were nine disease categories that each block shared an interest in.
 Multi-system diseases:
 Common to the U.S.
o Five of the diseases were already being reviewed in the Clinical Applications Course.
 It was decided to use the Clinical Applications Course as the mechanism to introduce all nine
diseases.
 Alan Cross took one current case used during the Clinical Applications Course, Justin Williams,
and wrote a biography of the patient.
o The committee will add hyperlinks to the biography where students could click on it and it would go to
anemia, etc.
o The committee would like to meet about four times a year to add/change the cases as needed.
Warren Newton sees this as an opportunity to cross the bridge from first year to second year for students.
2. A New Interactive Electronic Educational Tool:
 John Woosley introduced a case presentation format that is an interactive, flash-based format and can provide a
lot of hidden, clinical data/history.
 After student reviews the entire case and content, there are questions for the student to answer.
 There is a summary at the end that answers all of the questions.
 There has only been a trial of two cases:
o OB/GYN Student feedback was positive.
 John will be giving a workshop on this at the Academy of Educators on Wednesday, May 20. Alan Cross will
provide more details on the workshop.
 John has also developed a tool that make learning a lot easier to do for some medical students.
o “Medical Solitaire”
 50 playing cards;
 Drag cards to the appropriate diagnosis that it belongs to;
 Cards reshuffle each time you play (can’t memorize);
 Can have lights/sounds with the correct/incorrect answer.
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It is not quite ready yet as it takes a large amount of work.
Use for Step 1 studies?
Would students find it useful?
 Students could create cards on their own.
John will put an example on a hospital drive for everyone to view. To access the example, send John an
e-mail and he will give you the link.
Kathleen Rao suggested that he send along some type of evaluation form along with the link to get
feedback on whether this is something that would be useful.
3. Scheduling Rooms for 2009-2010 Academic Year:
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The availability of rooms is ever-changing.
We are being required to accommodate the graduate school courses.
We are required to schedule small group rooms on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For all courses that run during the fall there is a deadline of July 1 to provide Mindy Roush with your room needs.
The deadline for providing your schedule information for Spring Courses will be Oct. 1.
If you know you are not going to use your small group rooms, please let Mindy know so that other courses can
use these rooms.
Warren Newton is working with Bob Marriott to have more small group rooms.
The Berryhill rooms are available for your use if you choose to use them. All of the rooms will be renovated by
new school year.
Kathleen Rao will send out a reminder to everyone confirming the deadlines for room scheduling for the new
academic year.
4. Scheduling Course Reviews:
 If Mindy Roush sends you an e-mail to schedule the Course Review meeting for your block, please respond as
quickly as possible. In many cases it can take weeks to schedule a review and these needs to be reduced so that
we can get these course reviews scheduled as required by the LCME.
 If you are not familiar with how to use the “doodle,” Mindy will send along directions on how to indicate what times
you are available to meet.
5. Brief Update on Step 1 Committee:
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The committee met and came up with a number of ideas of what is not working and how to fix it.
o Construction of tests – don’t mimic our current tests;
 Multi-layered questions, more complex.
 Time pressure – not giving them that pressure.
o Construction of tests – don’t mimic our current tests;
o Do students have an adequate amount of time to study?
o Do students really need a prep-type course?
o Some students are taking an online prep course, Doctors in Training, with a cost of $600.
6. Lecture Capture – Results from Student Survey:
 The students did a nice survey of how the students felt about lecture capture.
NEXT MEETING
May 26, 2009, from 4:00 – 5:30 in MacNider 133