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Office of Educational Affairs College of Medicine
Medical Students Overview

CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING
November 18, 2025

Attendance


Voting Members: Heather Harrell (Chair), Andrew Miller, Austin Edwards MS3, Bradley Bruggeman, Christopher Robinson, Daniel Lewis, Jennifer Fieber, Kirsten Freeman, Melanie Hagen, Reetu Grewal, Robert Seifert.
Ex-Officio: Ashleigh Wright, Beverly Dede, Carrie Adams, Christian Spence MS1, Colleen Kalynych, Denise Chichester, Diane Howell, Elisa Sottile, Elizabeth DeVos, Hannah Norton, Jennifer Hamilton, Jim Gorske, Kathy Green, Margaret Lo, Martina Murphy, Marquia Walker MS2, Maureen Novak, Meredith Thompson, Phuong Huynh, Shelley Collins. Guests: Senthil Meenrajan, Ryan Nall, Lucy Guerra
Recording: Sandi Reveille

Dr. Harrell called the meeting to order at 7:30am.

A motion was made to approve the consent agenda, seconded, and approved.

Vote required

  • Update geriatric/palliative medicine capstone syllabus
    Due to Geriatric/Palliative clerkship being changed from a 3rd year clerkship to a thread with a capstone in 4th year clerkship, some updates were required. With this change, 3rd year activities are followed by a two-week clinical capstone in 4th year. With this update the syllabus needed to be revised and the learning objectives around palliative medicine were expanded and less relevant geriatric objectives were removed.
    • Motion to approve the new learning objectives for the geriatrics and palliative capstone.
    • Motion was seconded and approved.
  • Proposal to change Continuity Clerkship requirements
    Based on 6 months experience, the amount of time students are in clinic varies significantly thus the initial plan related to evaluation frequency needed revision. Additionally, formative feedback did not align with process used on other clerkships. The following changes were proposed for the committee to approve:
    • Mini CEX. Reduce to 4 for the year (from 6). 1 every 3 months
    • PMEX. Reduce to 2 PMEX from preceptor (from 4). 1 every 6 months
    • Patient evaluations. Reduce to 6 for the year (from 12)
    • Formative Feedback/Self-Assessment. Reduce to 2 sessions (from minimum of 3). 1 every 6 months. 
      • Motion to approve the changes recommended in reducing the number of evaluations required on the continuity clerkship.
      • Motion was seconded and approved.
  • Proposal to move immunology from FMI to Foundations and change FMI to Foundations in Microbiology
    discussion tabled to future meeting as proposal not ready yet.
  • Proposal to add Artificial Intelligence into ethics ILO
    Last month discussed integration of AI into ILOs.  Vote on revision to ILO PO1 was postponed giving the ethics thread leader time to comment. She had no suggestions to change what had been discussed.
    Expand ILO P01 “Discuss and apply ethical standards of practice, including the responsible and accountable use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) in patient care and research.”
    • Motion to add the bolded language to the existing ILO.
    • Motion was seconded and approved.
  • Travel Support policy
    Policy was previously approved but due to the change in the absence request, some updates were required for this policy.
    • After student receives approval (in writing), travel support requests must be submitted at least 3 weeks before the meeting.
    • Late applications will be automatically declined with no appeals process (except for unforeseen emergencies).
    • Students must be 1st author or presenting author if 1st author cannot attend.
    • Receipts must be turned in within 5 business days of the trip’s conclusion, otherwise reimbursement will be declined.
      • Motion to approve the updates to the policy.
      • Motion was seconded and approved
  • Remediation exam policy update
    Current policy only allows remediation exams during official course breaks. Proposal to change policy to allow remediation exams to be taken after all semester exams are completed.
    • Motion to approve proposed change.
    • Motion was seconded and approved

USMLE report presentation

Presented the available report that was posted on NBME. The report includes:

  1. Our USMLE Step 1 and Step 2CK pass rates continue to exceed the national average. Step 2 CK mean score also consistently above national average, significantly more very high performers than nationally.
  2. NBME Subject exam scores also consistently exceed national averages for 3rd year clerkships.

GQ report presentation

Presented the overall view of our graduation questionnaire. UFCOM had 67% response rate. The following are changes to the survey:

  • Added questions about student experiences with patients.
  • Discontinued questions related to student satisfaction with school facilities
  • Revised questions related to personality influence on specialty choice and accommodations for students.

Key take aways:

  • Overall, our students remain very satisfied with their education, feel prepared for residency, and believe basic and clinical sciences are well integrated.
  • Higher satisfaction with career guidance and more away rotation participation.
  • We are seeing improvements in students’ experience of the learning culture but there is still work to do.
  • Students are highly engaged in research (90% participated and 75% authored peer-reviewed publication)
  • Student highly engaged in other extracurricular (42% educational interventions, 45% public health initiatives)