Attendance
Voting Members: Heather Harrell (Chair), Anita Rajesekhar, Chris Robinson, Jason Fromm, Jennifer Fieber, Marquia Walker, Norman Beatty, Reetu Grewal, Robert Seifert, Ryan Nall.
Ex-Officio: Beverly Dede, Chris Giordano, Diane Howell, Elizabeth DeVos, Jennifer Hamilton, Kathy Green, Lynne Meyer, Maureen Novak, Melissa Turley, Meredith Thompson, Phuong Huynh, Shelley Collins. Guests: Brad Bruggeman, MD, LaNya Lee.
Recording: Sandi Reveille
Dr. Harrell called the meeting to order at 7:35am.
1. A motion was made to approve the consent agenda, seconded, and approved.
- Vote required
- KUT Learning Objectives
Learning objectives updated.
Removed – understand the epidemiology, etiologies, pathophysiology and pathology of diseases of the kidney (not making epidemiology a major course learning objective).
Removed – appreciate the psychological, sociologic, and economic factors that contribute to health and disease of the kidney. (This LO was a holdover from when we tried to integrate into HSS before it became its own course.)
- KUT Learning Objectives
Motion to approve these changes. Motion was seconded and approved.
- Advocacy for Healthcare
An elective created to be offered only in January because part of the elective is requiring the students to participate in Hill Day on Capitol Hill. Add date of UF Day to the syllabus. Students are allowed to lobby as long as it is done in conjunction with the days that are already happening (ie Med Student Day, UF Day) but not as a representative of UF.
Motion to approve this elective. Motion was seconded and approved.
- Appeals Process
Due to past issues and suggestions from General Counsel the following needs to be removed:
The student will be allowed to have a support person (e.g., family member or friend) during the personal appearance. A student who chooses to have a support person must provide the identity of the person at least 2 business days in advance of the meeting and provide a privacy waiver. The support person may not address the committee, but may consult with the student.
There is more support from the Office of Student Affairs due to increase in personnel who can be an advocate for the student.
Motion to approve the removal. Motion was seconded and approved.
- Medical Student Curriculum Committee
Update titles adding the two new Assistant Deans for Medical Education and other updates.
Motion to approve the updates. Motion was seconded and approved.
- Policies Regarding Student Health and Immunizations, Insurance and Bloodborne Pathogen
Clarified immunizations in particular to have the TB test done every year (as required by some outside institutions), mask fittings, insurance and what to do when encountering bloodborne pathogens. This policy was also broken into separate policies for easier clarification.
Motion to approve these changes. Motion was seconded and approved.
- Unsatisfactory Performance
Modified clerkships process to better align with Phase 1 process, which allows opportunity to remediate before earning a U grade and repeating the clerkship.
Motion to approve change. Motion was seconded and approved.
- USMLE
Remove CBSSA as a Step 1 threshold, unless required for student accommodations. Clarification of MD-PhD processes.
Motion to approve. Motion was seconded and approved.
- New members
Introduced new voting members for the 25-26 AY for a 3-year term: Dr. Kirsten Freeman, Dr. Andrew Miller. Thanked Dr. Velyn Wu and Dr. Anita Rajasekhar.
- CPESA Report
Provided the update of the Class of 2026 Performance report.
- SADEA/LCME Update
No updates.
- Good News
- Provide good news events for College of Medicine faculty, residents, students