Office Hours Update

Office Hours Update: What happened

 What happened today:

o If you’re uncomfortable speaking for all of MSC you can just say “I’ll bring it up to MSC.”

o PCCC and also a consulting firm that is reserving rms in library

. PCCC will fall under purview of Student Senate, not MSC

Class updates: 1st years: done w/ anatomy, lots of M2M. Got Preceptors yesterday 10/22

2nd years: In DEMS, upcoming town hall. Big issues are mental health. Dr. Davis from Student mental health service soming to talk about resources, Student Life will be there. Wellness Reps will also be speaking. Also received feedback on wellness survey, many students seem to be depressed in the past month according to the data, will be addressed at Town Hall. Finally, we will address Step 1 materials and honor Dr. Boyer. Boyer will allow school to use Step 1 materials he made

3rd years: ½ way through 3rd year, feeling more competent. Trying to get people to Corn Maze – class is active but they may not be able to make it.

4th years: Have interviews, going well.

Student Life Update: Admissions

Interviews rolling – people being trained to interview (including students). Late start because of CO springs branch but they are well underway.

Committee Updates Events: Planning Winter Gala, Corn Maze planning is also taking up time.

Innovations: Money can be rolled over for Innovations award! This means you won’t lose money at the end of the year. Applications are out.

Finance: Funding Travel

Communications: Calendar online – yay! Student Fees Follow Up Amy presented earlier in the year, letter from MSC regarding our opinion.

 Make sure we have a role, before and after.

 Disability Insurance: Still not sure, will be emailed out tomorrow.

o Probably a short-term policy, should something happen while you are a student

 Removed standardized patients from fees to tuition, course specific fees

 Some FDC fees moved

 CPHP will increase to go with pace of cost

 Biggest student issue is that CAPE fees are rolled into tuition

o We can no longer see what goes where

 These resources:

o Bursar will have a website, work with them so students know what is in the fee “programmatic” granularity.

o Knowing what we are charged in the CAPE, especially if it is driving tuition up.

. Dean Krugman is making the attempt to get core administrative portion of the CAPE ($560,000 or so) funded by school’s core funding: the only up and down will be utilization. This is why it is getting rolled into tuition – this way everyone at the school can be on an even playing field

 By doing this, the most “expensive” part of the operation falls to the school of medicine.

 Medicine (and other programs) balk because it costs too much

 This way, the “share” of the standardized patients will be divvied according to the share that you use instead of having to cover the overhead unevenly.

o With the percentage increase in tuition we see every year, will this affect how much people are paying?

. Campus itself should be taking on a lot of the burden, Dean’s goal is to keep it as low as possible o School may have lowest tuition hike next year than we have had in 10-20 years

o Why must there be two TB mask fittings?

. OSHA requirements – faces change.

 Fees are put into tuition to put it across the years

o We will be charged interest on a loan to cover the CAPE, even though we don’t have that much exposure at first

. Numbers haven’t been run yet, but the amount of money over average student debt will be small

. Rolling it into the tuition may make the transition to 3rd year

o Could there be a quantitative representation of this debt?

. Amy is willing to do it if we ask: Over 3 years is $1500 dollars

 Most students are paying for this with loans: not just the upfront $1500, it is also the interest

Student Mistreatment  Survey sent to all medical students after they graduate to evaluate their education

 Dean Garrity Presents:

o Highlights of Class of 2013 Responses

o Can be taken any time from graduation through the following February.

o Better response rates mean better numbers

o MD students

o Mistreatment Data:

. In response to question “Have you personally been mistreated in medical school?”

 CU is consistently higher in the past 3 years than the national average

. Students who had been publicly belittled, slapped, kicked, hit (not appropriate behavior)

 Nearly 60% of seniors had experienced this in 2012.  Dr. Lowenstein is in attendance to help with this.

. Threatened with physical harm (5), 15 asked to perform personal services

o Despite their efforts, numbers are still increasing

. Very distressing

. Some residents say students are too sensitive, but Dean Garrity doesn’t feel that students here are more sensitive than the rest of the nation

o Additional presentations are available if we need more info

. Can also be teased out by specialty – Gretchen Guiton has this data

o What about neglect by faculty? (being ignored, etc)

o Mistreatment and gender: denied opportunities for training or rewards based on gender – very broadly stated but still very

o Mistreatment based on race: still higher than national average

 Dean Krugman: struggles with this, embarrassed about this. Would value our contribution on how to address this w/ hidden curriculum.

 It can be hard to speak up – it would be nice to immunize you against harm, but starting to wonder if faculty response is what’s needed because it starts with them. If they see behavior that is inappropriate, other faculty may need to be the ones that speak up. No need to get into investigation or anything formal, but just a message to say “stop it.” How can we work on this?

 Public health problem, not a “criminal justice”problem

 Dr. Lowenstein: not student’s job to keep faculty from misbehaving, don’t need to parent their faculty.

o There are also minor incidents that happen, if they don’t get reported how can they know they’ve done something wrong?

o Students don’t have to shoulder this entire responsibility.

 This is a serious issue for faculty and they will be working on this

 Has faculty been made aware that this is an issue?

o Gretchen has gone to every faculty meeting to address this.

o Have also been presented to faculty senate and clinical leaders (Brenda Bucklin, etc.) o New faculty pledge about things they cannot do – this includes consequences that range all the way up to removal from teaching.

 In addition in going to the departments, has there been an effort to send this to residencies?

o It is in those programs and it has been disseminated

 Clinical faculty and residents

 Some faculty are really receptive and will actually tell students to

 Some faculty make fun or belittle the information

 How much of it is students being too soft – it can exist in any rotation, but it is usually the same people. Do all students and staff have documentation that they are required to report mistreatment

 In evaluations, the information sometimes doesn’t go anywhere. Is there any way to link evaluations to Professionalism First?

 Christie will be spearheading this effort.

 Accountability? Maybe harsher stipulations?

 TBD: there have been instances when egregious offenders have been removed from student teaching

o What does the coffee conversation? Minor stuff, not major stuff.

Those who are interested use parking lot!!

Angi and Shamita will be helping us to represent on Faculty Senate etc.

At-Large Rep Elections  Kelly Ground would like to be an at large rep: Approved