University of Virginia School of  Medicine
Curriculum Committee
Minutes
05.26.05

Surgery Conference Room, 4:00 p.m.  

Present (underlined) were: Reid Adams, Eve Bargmann,  Robert Bloodgood,  Anita Clayton,  Gene Corbett, John Gazewood, Donald Innes (Chair),  Howard Kutchai, Marcus Martin, Chris Peterson, Jerry Short, Linda Watson,  Bill Wilson, Brian Wispelwey, Nnaemeka Anyadike, Michael Richardson, Sixtine Valdelievre,  Debra Reed (secretary) 

1. LCME accreditation schedule.
   
   The LCME accreditation schedule was reviewed.
   
   Overall Schedule for Steering Committee,
   Task Force, and Committees
   Preliminary Schedule (Last Revised  5-15-05 )
   Additional Revisions Pending
   
   

   May 1 – Sept 1, 2005	Education Database completed as much as possible
   July/August	Committee chairs meet with Dean, receive charge, begin planning
   Sept 12, 2005	Inaugural meeting of Task Force; Dean charges TF Kick-off Reception for SOM’s LCME effort
   Sept 12  / 23, 2005	Committees and subcommittees hold initial meetings, begin work Educational Database due to committees & Task Force
   Oct 21, 2005	Subcommittee reports due to committees Committees begin series of meetings to discuss and revise each subcommittee report in turn; subcommittees prepare additional information as needed
   Nov 1, 2005	Task Force Meeting for interim status update from committees
   Nov 1 ~ Dec 1, 2005	Committees write reports
   Dec 1, 2005	Committee reports due to Task Force
   Jan 1, 2006 – Mar 16, 2006	Task Force holds meetings to review and revise each committee report in turn; committees prepare additional information as needed Task Force writes 1st draft of Task Force Report, circulates for comment
   March 1 – April 1, 2006	Task Force revises 1st draft of report
   Mar 1 – Jun 1, 2006	Updates added to Educational Database as available
   April 1, 2006	Task Force’s Final Report due to Steering  Committee Steering Committee reviews Final Report; Task Force prepares additional information as needed Steering Committee begins Executive Summary
   April 1 – May 1, 2006	Educational Database reviewed for updating
   May 1, 2006	Executive Summary 1st draft due to Steering  Committee
   May 1 – Jun 1, 20006	Steering Committee circulates 1st draft for comment and revision; revises and edits draft Steering Committee decides on composition of final documents to be submitted Updates added to Educational Database; database proofed, reproduced, prepared for submission
   Jun 1, 2006	Educational Database due to LCME LCME Report and Executive Summary:  special attachments, tables, appendices, etc., created
   Jun 1 – 15, 2006	LCME Report and Executive Summary:  special appendices, attachments, etc., created Executive Summary edited, put into final form
   Jun 15 – 30, 2006	All documents proofed, reproduced, and assembled for submission
   * * July 1, 2006 * *	Self Study Materials due to LCME and Site Survey Team
   * * Oct 8-11, 2006 * *	LCME Site Survey Team Visits School of Medicine

   
   
2. Patient Clinical encounter Program. Additional avenues are continuing to be explored to patient encounters for students in the second half of the first year and the fall of the second year.
   
   
3. MSTP resolution. 
   
   Graduate “Cell” has been moved to afternoon sessions so as to not interfere with the morning Medical classes. Medical Biochemistry and Graduate Biochemistry have been arranged so as to occur at the same time thus avoiding conflict from the start of the medical academic year through Thanksgiving.  The 3-week period following Thanksgiving is complex and crowded especially for the MSTP student with 5 sessions (10 hours) of Genetics concurrent with Grad Biochem.  The group favored laving the conflict while recognizing the increased workload on the MSTP students. In the course of the discussion it was revealed that an additional time was made available in the Winter/Spring semester and a proposal made to add the time to the summer period for vacation or research.
   
   [When writing these notes it was realized that this plan will not work as it would push the beginning of the Systems course for the Class of ’09 into the last week of the end of the second year of the Class of ’08. This together with the tacit agreement with Dean Kedes to “solve” the Biochemistry problem in turn for his solving the Grad Cell issues by moving Grad cell to the afternoon (a huge change), it seems we should look again at better using the additional time in the Winter/Spring to solve the MSTP problem and decompress the three week Genetics course for the medical students.
   
   An option is to move the ~15 hours of Physiology/Cell & Tissue completely into the newly discovered time in the Winter/Spring. Thus I have asked Drs. Kutchai and Bloodgood as co-directors of the Physiology/Cell & Tissue course to explore this and construct a schedule to accomplish this goal with the assistance of the other Winter/Spring course directors (Neuroscience, Human Behavior, and PoM-1. 05.28.05 -DJI]
   
   
4. Creation of new electives and selectives . 
   
   Drs. Keeley and Wilson will work with the Clinical Medicine Committee to encourage development of new 2-week electives to expose students to as many areas of medicine as possible for better career choice while allowing students greater freedom of exploration. Areas mentioned as examples included Dermatology, Radiology, Anesthesiology, Orthopedics, ENT, Cardiology, Rehabilitative Medicine, etc.

DJI