Attendance
Voting Members: Heather Harrell (Chair), Anita Rajasekhar, Christopher Robinson, Jason Fromm, Jennifer Fieber, Melanie Hagen, Norman Beatty, Reetu Grewal, Ryan Nall, Velyn Wu.
Ex-Officio: Ashleigh Wright, Austin Edwards (MS2), Beverly Dede, Carrie Adams, Collen Kalynych, Elizabeth DeVos, Frank Genuardi, Hannah Norton, Jennifer Hamilton, Jim Gorske, Kathy Green, Lynne Meyer, Marquia Walker, Maureen Novak, Melissa Turley, Meredith Thompson, Phuong Huynh, Shelley Collins, Shireen Madani. Guests: Gautam Kalyatanda, MD, Amy Vittor, MD, Brad Bruggeman, MD
Recording: Sandi Reveille
Dr. Harrell called the meeting to order at 7:32am.
1. A motion was made to approve the consent agenda, seconded, and approved.
- Vote required
- Committees
Update to titles and add term renewal option for curriculum committee. Changes to ASC, adding absence of the chair that the immediate past chair can facilitate the meeting. For CPESA committee, updating the term from 3 years to 5 years due to the nature of this committee.
Motion to approve these updates and to add the Director of Phase 1 to the membership.
Motion was seconded and approved.
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- Planetary Health elective
Faculty int e Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease presented information on a 2-week course with intent to provide practical tools and the underlying knowledge that accompanies what planetary health is.
Motion to approve this elective.
Motion was seconded and approved.
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- Surgery Clerkship Syllabus
Approve new learning objectives and changes to assessments. Objectives redone but some questions and edits still not clarified; structural change from 4 week core, 2 week subspecialty elective, 1 week subspecialty elective, and 1 week trauma (4 nights) to two 3-week core and one 2-week subspecialty elective that includes 3 nights trauma. Subspecialty 2 weeks will go back to being part of the grade and the weight of the small group was decreased.
Vote was deferred to give Dr. Shaw time to clarify her responses to the edits to objectives as she was unable to be present.
- Professionalism in Clinical Years Task Force report
Provided the update on this task force. Tasked with considering three charges:
- Reframe “professionalism” as “physicianship”
- Recommend a system for evaluating professionalism in Phase 2 and 3, trying to identify excellence in addition to areas for concern
- Give some thought as to whether this should contribute to the student’s clerkship grade or be a pass/fail.
- BOG attestation update
The Board of Governor’s would like all instructional faculty to attest to the information that they provide to the students. The proposed language was approved by the Curriculum Committee and will be added to each syllabus.
Proposed Syllabus Language to be added to each syllabus – “Instructional materials for this course consist of material reviewed, selected, and assigned by the instructor(s). The instructor(s) is only responsible for these instructional materials. Based on self-assessment of learning needs, students may identify other credible resources to augment the identification, analysis, and synthesis of relevant information.”
- SADEA Report
Announced three new positions – 1) Assistant Dean of Scholarship and Faculty Development; 2) Assistant Dean of Preclinical Medical Education 3) Assistant Dean of Clinical Medical Education. Also, a title change for Office of Student Counseling and Development faculty member from Program Director to Assistant Dean.
Faculty Senate has a speaker coming to UF on April 17th to speak on moral injury.
- CPESA Report/Good News
- SGEA Acceptance Results
- 12 Oral presentations
- 6 poster presentations
- 2 workshop accepted
- Provide good news happenings for College of Medicine faculty, residents, students