Faculty & Staff
Self Governance » Curricular Affairs Committee
Minutes
2/9/04
Committee members present were Drs. Reza Mehvar, David Allen, Jeanie Jaramillo, Kalkunte Srivenugopal, Marge Weis, and Craig Cox
Minutes
Review of minutes of 12/2-3/03. Minutes were approved with no changes.
New Business
Pharmacotherapy Review: The Pharmacotherapy Course Sequence Review was distributed during faculty meeting. The CAC then solicited comments from the team leaders of the pharmacotherapy courses, and Dr. Mehvar distributed to the CAC members the proposed changes recommended by faculty and the input from team leaders. A number of recommendations are being implemented. Some team leaders think we should not add anything to the pharmacotherapy sequence because we have to concentrate on what is already in the curriculum. Dr. Mehvar stated that he felt this was a recommendation to faculty to change the courses to include these items. However, he felt that CAC should not mandate that the team leaders make these changes. Some team leaders felts these deficiencies could be covered in case studies, however if we do this we need to follow up to make sure the same cases are used so that we can be assured the new material is covered. This committee feels that the curriculum mapping process we just concluded will remedy the deficiencies and duplications, if any, in the curriculum.
Old Business
Curricular Mapping: The results of the curriculum mapping project was discussed. The process has enabled us to reduce the number of ability statements from 320 down to 194 and approximately half of those have been modified. Pharmaceutical Care now has the most statements and that is appropriate and the committee was able to significantly reduce the number of Professionalism ability statements. Mapping indicates that several ability statements need to be moved to higher levels because the assigned courses are not taught before their levels.
The Dean's memo to CAC suggested that we now take the results of the curriculum mapping to the faculty and ask the faculty to concentrate on their own courses to determine whether there are deficiencies or duplications in their courses.
Dr. Mehvar advised that he would revise the ability statements first to reflect the changes that have been made so far and provide the revised statements and the curriculum mapping results to the faculty. The faculty can make their recommendations to the course team leader and the team leader will report to the CAC their recommendations, suggestions or comments. The CAC will then take those recommendations to the faculty for approval.
The total number of ability statements is now 194. This next task is for the CAC members to go through the remaining 194 statements and review and flag for problematic statements. It was suggested we could score each statement using the mapping database and flag statements with very high or low score for further review. Faculty will look at them from the course standpoint and the committee will look at it from the ability statement standpoint. Once Dr. Mehvar has made the changes stated above he will then turn the revised ability statement over to Dr. Allen to have it officially changed on the web.
It was decided to divide the ability statements up according to category, the assignments are as follows:
- Craig Cox - Pharmaceutical Care
- Marge Weis - Problem Solving and Dispensing Pharmaceuticals
- Jeanie Jaramillo - Communication and Basic Science
- Kenneth McCall - Social and Administrative Sciences
- Kalkunte Srivenugopal - Professionalism
Dr. Mehvar will contact Dr. McCall about his assignment.
Dr. Mehvar estimates that it will take approximately one month. Each committee member will make a list of their concerns and provide that to Dr. Mehvar.
CAP Report: The concerns about the CAP project were sent to the CAP leaders. Their response (CAP post course review) was distributed, reviewed and discussed. The concerns were sent to the CAP leaders and they met with their team and this was their report to address those concerns. CAP is on track to implement those changes that CAC proposes and to address deficiencies in curriculum that will fall under the CAP umbrella.
Scheduling Issues: Dr. Allen informed the committee that the team leaders for Neuro and Psych have requested that they be first in the scheduling for next year based on conflicts with national meetings for those areas. Bone & Joint and Integumentary were consulted and they were amenable to the switch in schedule. Therefore, the courses were scheduled accordingly for the next fall. However, the general consensus of this committee was that a change from the block system to a semester long format for pharmacotherapy courses needs to be discussed by CAC before implantation. Dr. Allen has asked teams that would like to change their format to bring a written request for changes to this committee and this committee would make a recommendation to faculty for review and consideration.
Editorial in Pharmacotherapy: The article on pharmacy education in the journal Pharmacotherapy was discussed. Dr. Allen said the AACP was going to make a global response to this editorial.
Next Meeting: Dr. Mehvar stated he would like to schedule the next two CAC meetings. It was determined that we would meet the 2nd Monday of the month for the next two months (March 8 and April 12) at 3:30 p.m.