Committee

Charge:

1. Serving as an umbrella committee for interdisciplinary educational efforts in both graduate and undergraduate areas.

a) Developing interdisciplinary modules or courses for incorporation into the curricula of the health sciences schools. Serving as liaison to the various schools for interdisciplinary efforts.

b) Develop criteria to be met by courses that seek to be identified as interdisciplinary for the purposes of the education of health sciences students. The Committee will have the responsibility for applying these criteria in the identification of interdisciiplinary courses in the timetable, as well as identifying which interdisciplinary courses or activities will be assigned to the "protected" timetable slot in the schedule. This time slot will be available beginning with the Fall 2004 academic year when the health scheices learning center is scheduled to open.

2. Promoting interdisciplinary continuing education for practitioners.

3. Working on ways to reward faculty for interdisciplinary educational effors (possibly with the Teaching Academy).

4. Reviewing problems involving service courses offered by one health sciences unit for the students of other health sciences units, and recommending approaches to solving such problems.

5. Serving as a forum for addressing issues relating to the education of health professions students which affect multiple health science units (e.g., immunization requirements, mental health leave).

6. Reporting annually on its accomplishements to the Health Sciences Council.