Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee

	Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee

II. Jason Morgenson, Med2—organizer of Spanish for the health professional course—met with the committee to discuss his excellent student-organized course in Medical Spanish for the accomplished Spanish speaker. There is currently faculty support and input, but the course organization is entirely student-fueled. Committee members gave Jason suggestions for ways the course could be sustained when he has moved into clinical rotations. There was discussion about Spanish as a continuing education course, as opposed to being part of the formal curriculum—the latter being more problematic to organize than the former, but not addressing the issue of the need to incorporate expertise in Spanish in the curriculum of health care professions students.

III. There were reports from committee members who had discussions with their curriculum committees about the commitment to interdisciplinary education.

a) J Thompson discussed the medication use safety course in Pharmacy that is aimed at pharmacy, nursing, and medical students as well as industrial engineering students. Kathy Skibinski is the pharmacy course coordinator.

b) K Kirchhoff listed physical assessment as critical to the training of NP, PA and medical students. She cited Carol Glassroth as a colleague who has great interest in this curricular concern.

c) The medical school curriculum committee has five subcommittees that were formed by Carolyn Bell. Informatics is the subcommittee that A Ball is involved with along with Craig Gjerde and other colleagues.

d) There was committee discussion of the role of course-supervisor teaching credit as a disincentive to interdisciplinary work. As it applies to the medical school faculty, addressing the MAMA model is something the committee may need to incorporate into its recommendations.

IV. Student Services Issues of Concern

a) Caregiver Law- S Spear presented his phone discussion with Nancy Lynch. There are different circumstances for the various health sciences schools, which results in differing applications of the law. Nancy Lynch is available to meet with this committee or individual committee members to elucidate these issues.

b) TB Mask Fit Testing- the topic was left for future discussion.

Agenda for December IHS Committee Meeting
K6/383 Clinical Sciences Center
8-9:30 AM, Friday, March 16, 2001

1. Approval of Minutes from 2/16/01 meeting
2. Kathy Skibinski, the course coordinator for a new Pharm. D. course on Medication Use Safety, will talk with the committee about ways that the course can attract students from other disciplines and input from other health sciences schools
3. In-depth discussion of committee recommendations for advancing interdisciplinary learning in the Health Sciences Learning Center

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