Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee

	Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee

Present: Ball, Bowers, Crouse, Gilchrist, Kanous, Kirchhoff, Spear (Chair), Thompson, Zahner

Approved minutes of April 19, 2002 meeting with the following correction:
Byron Crouse spells his last name with a “C” and not a “K”

Guest: Javier Nieto, the new department chair for population health in the medical school, met with the committee to discuss his potential involvement in interdisciplinary curricular activities.

Javier reported that there would be an interdisciplinary focus to the MPH program that is being developed. There is already a masters' degree of population health available at UW.
--The MPH program is being envisioned as a 12-month long program if the student is full-time, but part-time options will likely be available. The MPH degree program will have a distinct research focus.
--The Council for Public Health Education accredits the filed
--Up to 6 new faculty positions have been promised to Javier
--Joint degrees—MS in Nursing/MPH are being discussed
--Strong advisory component from community—Dave Demets, Jeff Stearns, John Frey, Karen Cruickshanks, Pat Remington, Susan Skochelak, Naomi Wells, Javier Nieto, Byron Crouse, Laura Croft, Laurie Steinke, Susan Zahner, Rebekka Brown, Henry Anderson, Betty Chewning, Linda Baumann, Kyungmann Kim
--Important issue of supporting MPH internships in the community—UHS could certainly serve as a site for a public health intern
--Will keep Javier in the loop by including him in future distribution of IHSC committee minutes

Scott reported that there was no mention of interdisciplinary activities as a requirement for accreditation in the presentation by the representative from AAMC at Medical Education day
--Others questioned if pharmacy or nursing schools require evidence of such activity for their accreditation
--It was suggested that funding agencies may be the way to drive the demand for clinicians who are interdisciplinarily trained and facile; also suggested that a push from governmental agencies and actors like Russ --Feingold would help
--Strong focus on interdisciplinary practice in US Pharmacopoeia—particularly as it applies to medication errors

The committee worked on revising the Welcome Statement for the listserve—will have committee members send out the statement to our own schools’ lists initially; it was suggested that we put the statement on the Remington Center website in the medical school as soon as it is available; Susan will forward the welcome message to committee members for review and will then make it available to disburse when it is in its final form

Committee members discussed having Cindy Haq replace Kennedy Gilchrist on next year’s committee—Kennedy will be retiring in December

Decided that we want to start off the committee with a vengeance this coming academic year—will schedule September and October meetings now for the 3rd Friday of the month; Nathan and Judy to look into scheduling Rennebohm Hall, Room 1042 for the meetings for next year

Susan Zahner will represent the committee at the Health Sciences Council meeting on May 29th—she will present the more concrete recommendations from the committee that the Council had requested. Specifically:
--The committee requests that the deans direct staff responsible for timetables to develop several options for a 60-90 minute interdisciplinary program-only time slot in pre-clinical schedules for med school, nursing and pharmacy students for the deans to review—this scheduling would optimally be implemented by Fall 2004 when the HSLC opens for classes.
--The committee felt that the Council should include several committee members in the early deliberations of the timetable staff.
--The committee recommends that the Council give the committee the responsibility for reviewing the courses, seminar series and lectures that would be proposed to utilize the interdisciplinary program-only time slot being suggested above

Scott will be meeting with Pharmacy School Health Committee the following week to discuss implications for them of the Lexington Report—he is available to do likewise for the Med School and Nursing

The committee moved to the Pharmacy Library to review the nascent interdisciplinary health sciences website that Andrea has developed. We made several decisions regarding the functionality and layout of the site:
--Agreed to include the committee calendar, agendas and minutes—but put agendas/minutes on a separate page
--Include committee history but put this on a separate page
--Include current committee members’ roster
--Keep an archive of past committee members and minutes on a separate page
--Add listserve information for those interested in signing on
--Add 'Last updated' date for quality assurance
--Add news/announcements regarding interdisciplinary seminars, speakers, and events of interest—need to determine how to get this information to Andrea
--Include Annual Reports for the committee

Have a Student Affairs subsection of site that would include:
--Immunization and other pre-matriculation requirements for the schools
--Laws related to background checks
--The Lexington Report on the management of the blood-borne pathogen infected health science student
--Other potential items??

Include information regarding the future direction of the committee and interdisciplinary health sciences education at UW-Madison

The URL for the site is now (and will remain): http://projects.hsl.wisc.edu/ihsc

Note: This is a stand-alone site and can only be reached by the URL—there is no link from the Health Sciences Libraries web site (although we are hoping to make it possible to use the Library web site search tool to locate the site—Andrea will follow up on this later.)

Committee members are encouraged to send content to Andrea for the website
Discussed ideas for a possible logo for the website—barn-raising or Holstein “pieces” as potential ideas; Scott will determine if UHS staff have the time to develop such a logo for the committee to review in the future

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