Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee

	Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee

Present: Ball, Boissonnault, Johnson, Gilchrist, Kanous, Krouse, Noack, Spear (Chair), Thompson, Zahner

Approved minutes of March 15, 2002 meeting with the following corrections:
--Should refer to Nancy Diekelmann as a Professor in the School of Nursing.
--In addition, the international hire is not yet approved definitively, but has been proposed and is in the final round of the review process.
--Additionally, it was not correct to state that this individual would be “housed in the HSLC,” but instead they will be housed in the department responsible for the hire.
--A Center of International Health is proposed and that may be housed in the HSLC, the Pharmacy building or possibly the WARF building.

It was reported that the International Health Committee has formed a curriculum subcommittee—Scott Spear will contact Cindy Haq (committee chair) to discuss having her come to a meeting of this committee to report and network with us.

As a follow-up to last month’s discussion on blood-borne pathogen safety training, it was reported that the pharmacy students are expected to complete an on-line training course as part of their required curriculum.

The committee agreed that Scott Spear should ask Nancy Diekelmann to draft a support letter that the committee can then review. Scott will distribute the draft as soon as it is available for committee review and potential approval via email. There is a brochure for the teaching in a practice discipline course that Scott will obtain and have distributed to committee members.

Susan Zahner has investigated with DoIT the issues involved in establishing the interdisciplinary health sciences listserve. These include:
--A name for the listserve—“interdisciplinary-health” was the consensus choice after discussion by the committee
--Listserve owner—School of Nursing discussed, but not finalized.
--Susan spoke with Dean May who is willing to cover the $40 one-time cost to DoIT of creating the listserve
--Subscription manager—Scott Spear offered to serve in this role
--Open vs. owner-controlled vs. closed—recommended that listserve be open
--How to populate the listserve—email to all faculty is expensive; might be best to send the introductory email to the distribution lists of the individual health sciences schools, as well as to sociology, CALS, engineering, and others potentially interested
--Set up so that individuals need only hit “reply” if they wish to subscribe
--Do we want to pay additional fees to archive messages? — Decided not to do that; could simply take any important announcements that came across the listserve and post them on the interdisciplinary website
--Decided we would want the listserve addresses suppressed and would inform subscribers of that fact in the welcoming message
--Susan Zahner will work on developing a draft of an introductory message to present to the committee for final approval at our next meeting

The committee discussed the need for a strong commitment to timetable changes to allow time for interdisciplinary activities and curricula.
--The medical school, nursing school and pharmacy school seem to be on board, but the ultimate decision will need to come from the deans of those schools.
--Staff responsible for timetable changes will need to develop options for the placement of a 1-2 hour weekly block of time, but the deans will need to direct them to do so and then make the final decision about which option to choose.
--Some members of this committee should be asked to meet with the timetable group for support and assistance.
--Need to determine what years in each program and school should be included—pre-clinical MS1 and MS2 years most appropriately for the med school
--This activity will need to take place and be finalized within the next 12 months if the timetable changes are to be in place when the HSLC opens its doors for Fall 2004 classes.

Committee members then discussed how this time would be utilized:
--Begin with an interdisciplinary health seminar—this committee and schools could contribute content areas
--Develop a planned interdisciplinary health sciences curriculum; i.e. informatics, health care delivery systematics, medication errors, industrial engineering in health programs planning, pathophysiology; in addition, public health, community health, and population health as curricular areas that cross interdisciplinary boundaries
--Courses proposed to meet during the “interdisciplinary hiatus” would come before this committee—or a similarly constituted one—for approval
--Question whether of not this could include seminar courses and grand rounds-type presentations and/or regularly scheduled courses
--The intention is to build collaboration and interdisciplinary function, not just create an interdisciplinary enrollment
--Would require working teams arising from an interdisciplinary group that included faculty and curriculum development expertise; team building and conflict resolution would be important components as well

The next meeting will be May 10th in Rennebohm Hall Room 1042. The earlier meeting date is to accommodate committee members attending graduation exercises being held the usually scheduled third Friday of the month.

Agenda for May IHS Committee Meeting
Rennebohm Hall, Room 1042
8-9:30 AM, Friday, May 10, 2002

1. Approval of Minutes from 4/19/02 meeting
2. Guest: Javier Nieto, the new department chair for population health in the medical school, is invited to discuss the planned MPH program and the interest/need for making it a multidisciplinary program, including the idea of joint degrees, co-teaching, etc.
3. Finalize committee recommendations to be made to Health Sciences Council
4. Approve welcome message for the listserve
5. Review the nascent interdisciplinary website in the Pharmacy Library

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