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Summary of 1.
CME Chair Dr. Murray Altose presented
his CME Report to the Faculty Council October 7, 2002. The Faculty Council expressed an interest in the
further development of vertical themes. 2.
Dr. Lindsey Henson, Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs,
announced the next two scheduled CCLCM ( ·
October
29, ·
November
19, These two sessions are leading up to
a future small group curriculum planning
session. 3.
Report from the Curriculum Leadership Council (CLC)
– Dr. William Merrick, Chair ·
CLC discussions on organization, leadership, and responsibilities of the
CLC have led to referral to Appendix I of the Charge to the CME, approved ·
Dr. John Mieyal presented a proposal-in-progress to make Drug Action and
Biodisposition (DAB) a Year II semi-longitudinal committee. ·
Dr. Marti Echols is working with the
CLC to modify the remediation schedule and
ensure that the goal of having students achieve mastery of the material is being
accomplished. ·
CLC student performance subcommittee to solicit input
from the clerkship directors to identify deficiencies that can be addressed by changes in
the preclinical curriculum ·
CLC faculty performance subcommittee to determine
where intervention in the form of faculty development is necessary to help major lecturers
having difficulty Discussion of student feedback
culminated in the recommendation that each subject
committee chair provide an annual summary of that committee’s performance utilizing
evaluative student feedback and other mechanisms with an action plan delineating future
initiatives to effect improvements. This
document could serve as a means of tracking changes and improvements over time. 4.
Report from the Patient-Based Program
Coordinator –
Dr. Jay Wish, Patient-Based Program Coordinator The Patient-Based Program is an operational entity that implements
recommendations from the Dean’s Office, the CME, and the CRDC. Components of the Patient-Based Program include
Years I and II of ICM (Introduction to Clinical Medicine) and the third year clerkships. Oversight of the third year clerkships is carried
out by the Clerkship Directors, who meet quarterly as a group. The Clerkship Directors’ focus on subjectivity of the third year evaluation process,
which is heavily weighted by assessment/observation by residents and attending staff,
resulted in a concerted effort this year to have student evaluations that are “more
standardized and more transparent” with decreased subjectivity on the part of those
mentoring the students. While students are
apprized up front of the learning objectives in
each clerkship, there is still need for improvement in preparing our students to use the
learning objectives. 5.
Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM)
Update – Ms.
Kathy Cole-Kelly, Co-Director The ICM program occurs in Years I and
II to prepare students for their work on the wards. Tuesday
morning “clinical learning groups,” or CLGs, (which include the Problem-Based
Learning component); the Interviewing Program; and the Family Clinic Program are designed
to improve “health communications, the doctor-patient relationship, and clinical
skills.” Ms. Cole-Kelly cited several
ongoing examples of feedback/assessment involving both student and faculty preceptor
participation to demonstrate the high priority ICM puts on evaluation.
The ICM co-directors (Dr. Elizabeth Patterson and Dr. Ted Parran, along with
Ms. Cole-Kelly) are eager to continue making revisions and to add more rigor to the program, such as the
following accomplished for this year: more
oral presentations and more write-ups of the correlation conferences and interviewing
program; increased faculty development and ongoing evaluation of preceptors; greater
integration with basic science curriculum and Physical Diagnosis. 6.
Report from the The first issue of the online
quarterly CCLCM newsletter Update can be found on the CWRU School of
Medicine homepage. The September 25/26 faculty development session on
Problem-Based Learning in context of a basic science case as demonstrated by Harvard
faculty and CWRU students drew 150 CCF and CWRU faculty.
The vertical “organ systems” and horizontal core content “threads”
of the CCLCM curriculum continue to be developed. The
CSC of the CCLCM is also working on the development of evaluation methodologies. Members of the curriculum planning body at the
CCLCM have planned a retreat in November to consolidate their curriculum development
activities. 7.
Report from the Director of the The National Library of Medicine’s
PubMed now has links to the OhioLINK and CWRU electronic journals. Mrs. Saha provided an instructional PowerPoint
presentation on the LinkOut function of PubMed, which is a version of Medline. Mrs. Saha demonstrated two ways to access PubMed: a lengthy URL or the easier route through the link
on the Health Sciences Library’s homepage (http://www.cwru.edu/chsl/homepage.edu.) Articles are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF
(formatted exactly like the print version) and/or in HTML (computer-formatted). Electronic versions of articles are sometimes
available before the print versions. The
OhioLINK EJC button leads to the article in the 8.
Report from Biomedical Information
Technologies –
Dr. Tom Nosek, Associate Dean for Biomedical Information Technologies Dr. Nosek made faculty aware of the
various electronic resources available by starting with the CWRU School of Medicine
homepage. He cited the eCurriculum, PubMed,
and Update (a quarterly newsletter for CCLCM), to name a few. Once in the eCurriculum, there is entry to two
curriculum sites: the CWRU School of Medicine
eCurriculum and the CCLCM of CWRU curriculum (currently under development). It is also possible to search the SOM faculty
directory, see calendars for each subject committee grouped by year, and explore the
Faculty Resource Guide. All 3200 faculty are
listed in the Faculty Directory. If you are
not receiving your e-mail messages, be sure to go online to check your own information. When viewing your own data, the site tells you how
to make the changes. You may also search for
contact information for a faculty member. 9.
Report on Faculty Development and
Teaching Incentives
– Dr. Terry Wolpaw, Co-Director of the Scholars Collaboration in Teaching and
Learning Two ongoing efforts will be under the
auspices of the Committee on Faculty Teaching: 1)
The Scholars Collaboration in Teaching and Learning,
whose objective is to develop medical educators, was initially funded by a Provost’s
grant. The Scholars Collaboration in Teaching
and Learning is being implemented for the first time during the current academic year. A total of thirty faculty, second-year students,
and fourth-year students have already been selected. Dr.
Terry Wolpaw and Dr. Clint Snyder are the two project co-directors. 2) The second ongoing effort is still in the
planning stage: Recognition of Achievement in Teaching led by Dr.
Dan Wolpaw. Efforts will be focused this year
on developing an evaluative tool for making both quantitative and qualitative judgments
about an individual’s teaching in medical education.
Once established, such a mechanism could be used from year to year. See Curriculum Revision Update section.
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