University of Virginia School of
Medicine
Principles of Medicine Committee
Minutes 10.11.00
October 11, 2000, 1:30 p.m., Jordan 1-17.
Present were:
Present were: Robert Bloodgood, Bruce Cohen, Alfred
Connors, Claudette Dalton, Carl Creutz, John
Gazewood, Wendy Golden, Barry Hinton, William Hobbs,
Joel Hockensmith, Donald Innes (Chair), Robert
Kadner, Howard Kutchai, Heidi Scrable, Jennifer
McClune, Darci Lieb, David Moyer, Lucia Smerage,
Virginia Taylor, Brian Wispelwey, Karen Grandage, William
Petri, Allison Innes, Richard Pearson, Jerry Short,
Eugene Corbett, William Wilson, Gary Owens, Susan Squillace,
Mariecken Verspoor, Vinay Chandrasekhara, Atul Gupta,
Joey Dubose
- 50 minute lecture hour. Publishing 50 or 80 minute lecture
hours on the combined course schedule and building in a 20 minute break
when possible was discussed and approved. Dr. Short will adjust the
times as appropriate.
- Information Mastery. Karen Grandage, Health Sciences Library
Education Coordinator, addressed the group on Information Mastery.
Medical education is a lifelong process requiring more than computer
literacy. The Library encourages teaching of technology by integration
within the Medical School curriculum as proposed by the AAMC
Informatics Objectives at http://www.aamc.org/meded/msop/informat.htm
.
At present, the library provides a "Medical Student Bookbag" of links
to useful sites, and has worked with PoM-1, Epidemiology, and Family
Medicine to train students to use and develop strategies for
Ovid/Medline, CDR, etc. Course directors were encouraged to look for
practical and beneficial ways to integrate technology into their
courses. Contact Ms. Grandage <kkg8n@Virginia.EDU>for help
with implementation.
- Exam Policy. Joey Dubose, Mulholland president, presented a
proposal from the Student Medical Education Committee (SMEC) regarding
the examination policy. following discussion the following policy was
adopted.
Exams are administered only at the following sites: Jordan 1-5, Jordan
1-14, Old Medical School Auditorium, Classroom C-1, Jordan Front
Laboratories, and the Jordan Conference Center (if available). Exams
are not to be worked on outside these sites. Exceptions for reasons of
compassionate need, disability, or illness are to be determined by the
Office for Student Affairs.
Consideration will be given to adding the library or portions of the
library to the places for exam administration when current library
renovations are finished.
- Further discussion of examination policies regarding the
standardization of test question corrections. SMEC proposes that
consideration of the validity of exam questions be made only after the
exam is completed by all students. They recommend that professors leave
an area on the front of the exam upon which students may write down
their concerns about specific questions on each exam. Such concerns
could then be addressed after the completion of the exam by the
professor/course director.
SMEC also suggested standardizing the role of professors DURING the
exam. Some concern has been raised that while most professors are
careful not to provide students taking the exam with any information
that may change their answer, that (at least the impression exists
among some students) approaching some professors during exams provides
those students doing so an advantage on the test by way of less well
guarded exchanges.
Changes to individual questions on the exam (typos etc.) should
be posted in specific exam locations clearly designated by each course
director. Course Directors are encouraged to add an area on the front
of their examinations for students to cite individual questions that
they feel were ambiguous or had multiple correct answers.
"in exam" test question correction, role of professors DURING the exam,
and changes to individual questions will be placed on next months
agenda for further discussion.
- Curriculum Self-Assessment form. - This format will allow
for a consistent evaluation of all medical school courses as required
by the LCME. Bob Bloodgood discussed the curriculum self-assessment
form briefly. He is working with the Computer Committee to automate
evaluation data and even examination data.
The next meeting will be 11/08/00 at 1:30 P.M.. in the JORDAN HALL -
RM 117.
Minutes submitted by: Donald J. Innes, Jr., M.D. Date: 10/16/00
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