Meeting Minutes
Thurs. 11/14/00
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Present:
Mark Kuczewski, (new member Elisa Gordon) Tammie Morris (acting recorder), Eva Bading, Pam Derstine, Greg Ozark, Charles Webber & Fred Wezeman, Mary Langbein & Teresa Wronski.   Students: Cynthia Brincat (M1), Ryan DeLee (M2),  Andrew Makowski (M2) and Sam Johnston (M3)   Absent: Mike Takacs (M4), Greg Matz, and Ash Mansour

  Discussion:

1. Next meeting dates – Thurs. 12/05/00 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. & Tues., 12/12/00, 12 :00 noon - 1:00 p.m., meeting rooms (TBA),  (lunch provided)

2. Minutes from last meeting approved. 

3. Sub-committee review/task/recommendations:

   • Statement on Professionalism – hard copy available

     • Tasks: Create a shorter version (s), perhaps in the form of a letter to the LUHS community

   • Student Maltreatment  - hard copy available

     • Tasks:  Create a survey.  Dr. Matz is sending the survey to Mark. Mark will then show it to Drs. Myles Sheehan and Stephan Slogoff for clearance. He will also ask Elisa Gordon to take a peek at it for any last minute suggestions methodologically. From the discussion at today's  (11/13/00) executive faculty meeting, Mark thinks there will be a lot of receptivity for your results. Committees will need recommendations on two counts, on a positive count, what kind(s) of educational action should we take to raise awareness of student maltreatment?  Perhaps Mary Langbein and Terri Wronski could have some input here. We'll need to do something that hits the students so they understand what avenues are open to them and also graze the awareness of residents and faculty that this is important. (Even though we have no jurisdiction over residents and faculty, we can make suggestions for inviting them to be included.  On the negative side; please check what the students are told in their handbook regarding how to report egregious misconduct such as sexual harassment or abuse. We'll need to make a mechanism can be improved. recommendation on whether this

   • Integrated Curriculum

     • Recommendations: Namely, the curriculum looks pretty complete but we do not have anything on conflicts of interest (e.g., taking gifts from drug companies, taking money to recruit patients to clinical trials, having stock options in companies for which one is doing research) and cultural diversity. The subcommittee should make a recommendation regarding these and whether they might go in the curriculum.  Similarly, the subcommittee should make a recommendation on how to evaluate professionalism, e.g., 360 eval and/or portfolio assessment.   The above two questions can be tied to a recommendation regarding integrating this into the clinical setting. Perhaps some of this training, including something on student mistreatment, should be offered across the curriculum to 3 & 4th year students, residents, and faculty.

     • Honor Code Review:  The committee seemed to reach consensus that the honor code should not be a part of the statement on professionalism explicitly as that might make the statement sound like it's only about the medical school. But, it should be attached to the statement and have a similar tone. There was general support for the tone the subcommittee wished to set, i.e., challenging people to higher ideals rather than policing them.  As noted in the handout, the committee will need some specific recommendations for the code. Briefer is better than longer.  Limit it to about four or five points.  If it flows from the professionalism statement, it should emphasize trust and other admirable qualities of the medical profession.  Some statement on testing should be included.  Some statement on relation of students to mentors and to each other (360 eval?)  Some statement on evaluation of professionalism. Some approach to student buyBin needs to be recommended.

As time grows short, the format of each meeting will now be 10-15 minutes for each subcommittee to report. We'll need to stay to schedule to be out in an hour. 

As we are aiming to complete our work in December, I suggest the meeting after to be the following week, December 12^th , 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at approximately 6:40 p.m.

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