Faculty & Staff
Self Governance » Continuing Education Committee
Minutes
October 2004
Members present were Joel Epps, Leland Wehde, Sherry Luedtke, Sachin Shah, Ann Canales, Krystal Edwards.
Committee members not in attendance were Bonnie Dugie, Venita Bowie, Judy Newsom and Emily Lefler.
The minutes of the last meeting were approved with the changes previously submitted by committee members and will be submitted for posting on the Web.
Mr. Wehde advised that he had sent TPA a copy of the preliminary survey and TPA had e-mailed Mr. Epps proposed changes to the survey. WTPA has committed to $500.00 financial assistance toward the expense of the survey. The easiest way for us to do the survey is using the Web Surveyor program. We will just need to decide the date we wish to send the survey out. Joel would like for the school to be able to survey our alumni and provide them with a link to the continuing education survey. Dr. Luedkte suggested we provide to the survey to the participating organization and let them send out the survey to their members and the results will still come back to us and then we can provide the participating organization with the results.
Mr. Epps reported that he and Bonnie Dugie had met with Paul Davis with TSHP regarding the survey and they liked what they saw and agreed to be a participating organization. When we get the survey ready we will send it out to committee member so that they can test the survey and make sure we don't have any glitches with the actual administration of the survey.
Dr. Luedtke discussed the ACPE self study guide and standards and directed the committee to review and see if there was anything they might want to include on the alumni survey. She also inquired if there were any question on this survey that we would want to include in our alumni survey.
Are there questions off of this survey that we want to have on our alumni survey or additional questions that we would like to ask our alumni regarding continuing education. Mr. Epps advised that there is so much competition out there for CE that he would welcome the input regarding where they are getting their CE and what type of format they prefer. Also we need to determine what we can do to make our TTSOP CE more appealing that the other programs. We need to have the survey performed prior to the ACPE visit in November. There was some discussion regarding incentive to participate in the survey. We will leave this up to the individual organization as to how they want to entice their members into participating. For the School of Pharmacy it was suggested that we offer a free CE program or perhaps registration to an organization's meeting. Mr. Epps said he was not opposed to offering a free CE program and suggested we include a calendar of future program.
The next item of business is to develop a systematic review of all CE program and develop some performance criteria to determine the quality and financial success of the program. Mr. Epps is already collecting data on this for his portion of the ACPE report he has suggested that we use this data and summarize for this purpose and then revamp his evaluation tool to use. There was some concern about confidentiality but the disclosure form that the speaker signs should take care of any problems with confidentiality. The committee was in agreement that we redo the CE program for our purposes. The basis of that evaluation is content, speaker knowledge of topic and presentation and also to obtain feedback from the speaker on what we could do to improve the program. This will be an agenda item for the next meeting and committee members are asked to think about potential questions for our next meeting.
This committee also needs to develop a financial feasibility formula to determine from the performance indicators if a CE program is a success and based the results of those performance indicators you can determine what factors made it more or less successful financially and in regard to attendance.
The Faculty Incentive Program will be discussed and worked on as a committee at the next committee meeting. Mr. Epps will send everyone on the CE committee our current evaluation tool and then we can work from there and then we can discuss budget and quality/performance indicators at next meeting. This agenda item will be carried over to the next meeting.
We will send a copy of the ACPE self study and standards to each committee member so that they may review them and see if there is anything this committee needs to consider with respect to assessing the program with regard to ACPE standards and we will discuss this at our next CE committee meeting.
The faculty incentive plan and student/preceptor workshop items on this agenda will be carried over to our next meeting which is scheduled for November 18 at 1:00 to 2:00.