Medical School Education Comittee

Committee Responsibilities

The Medical School Education Committee (MSEC) acts as the Curriculum Committee (LCME) carrying out the educational agenda of the Medical School as designated by the Dean. They serve as the approval body for final decisions in curriculum and policy changes/additions/deletions.

A. Discuss major educational issues and determine/approve changes based on recommendations from ESC, TCSFC, CEC, DUSFC, and Office of UME
B. Ensure implementation of the curriculum according to approved principles and policies
C. Review data (including State of the Curriculum report, ad-hoc task group reports, and TCSFC/CEC/DUSFC reports) to ensure that the Twin Cities and Duluth achieve comparable outcomes
D. Ensure horizontal and vertical integration in the curriculum (bi-campus)
E. Identify topic areas that are to be addressed by ad-hoc task force groups

Committee Members

The Medical School Education Committee is composed of more than 30 voting members, including Medical School and curriculum leaders, faculty members, directors of UME for major affiliates, residents, and students from both campuses.

Membership Information (as of 11/2020)

Monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month from 4 pm - 5:30 pm.

Meeting Minutes

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2015

December 2015

  • Council members will review the report with any eye toward identifying any additional critical themes for discussion by the group
  • Council members will share any further recommendations they feel are merited based on the content of the report

November 2015

  • Workgroup in interprofessional collaborative practice
  • Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Workgroup
  • Public Health and Health Policy Workgroup

October 2015

  • Medical Education Retreat
  • Education Steering Committee (ESC)
  • Online Interactive Learning Modules, HHD2: GI-Heme

September 2015

  • Annual report of class profile for entering Class of 2019
  • The Office of Admissions is considering the implementation of the Multiple Mini INterview Program (MMIs)
  • Medical School Grading Policy Review and Discussion

August 2015

  • Introduction and Welcome New EC members B. Benson
  • RPAP and MetroPAP Update K. Brooks
  • Education Council Self-Assessment

June 2015

  • Biannual Report on the MSTP
  • Proposed revision of the M3/M4 curriculum for MSTP students
  • Longitudinal Assessment

May 2015

  • Essential and Desired Qualities - Admissions
  • BSMD Degree

April 2015

  • Policy for Reporting and Handling Violations of Ethics/Honor and Professionalism Codes
  • ECM Grading
  • Match Results 2015
  • Medical Student Academic Progress – Task Force 

March 2015

  • Search
  • LCME Report
  • Domains of Competence and PCRS

February 2015

  • Policy for Reporting and Handling Violations of Ethics/Honor and Professionalism Codes
  • AAMC Domains of Competence

January 2015

  • AAMC Domains of Competence
  • State of the Curriculum Report

2014

November 2014

  • AAMC Learning Environment
  • Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships

October 2014

  • Student Affairs Dean recruitment update
  • Blue Ribbon Panel
  • Admission Annual Report

September 2014

  • Curriculum Integration
  • Discussion with Dr. Brooks Jackson, Dean

August 2014

  • Updates
  • PGY-1 Survey
  • Entering Class of 2018
  • Data Integration

July 2014 - No Meeting

June 2014

  • Teach for Quality
  • Flex M.D./Dual Degree
  • Policy Update - Clinical Volunteers

May 2014

  • Education STeering Committee update
  • Medical Education Retreat Outcomes
  • Assuring excellence in U of M Med school grads: Implications for admissions and scholastic standing committee

April 2014

  • Education Steering Committee update
  • 2014 Match results
  • Medical Education Retreat Outcomes
  • Assuring excellence in U of M Med School grads: implications for admissions and scholastic standing committee

March 2014 - No Meeting

February 2014

  • Medical Education Retreat Summary
  • Medical School Student Research

January 2014

  • Ass't Dean for Clinical Education Search
  • Education Steering Committee Updates
  • Sub-Internship - Medicine Updates
  • Medical School Strategic Plan/Faculty Development

2013

December 2013

  • State of the Curriculum Report

November 2013 

  • New member information
  • Student Representative
  • GME Resident Representative
  • LCME
  • Admission Duluth/TC, Pipeline Programs Annual Program Review

October 2013 - meeting cancelled

September 2013

  • New Duluth Assis't Dean, Admission/Student Affairs
  • Thompson's Work
  • COSSS and SSC Reports
  • AHC Nexus, Interprofessional Education

August 2013

  • Annual Program Review - COSSS and SSC Reports, RPAP, MetroPAP (biannual)
  • Nexis? - Fall suggested
  • Brian Sic
  • Integrated Work Group - Action Plan? (from June)
  • ESC update

July 2013 - No Meeting

June 2013 

  • Annual Program Review - MSTP
  • Physicians Scholars
  • Duluth - new faculty and administration
  • Updates
  • EPAC
  • AMA Grant
  • Integrated Work Group - Action Plan
  • Admissions Update
  • Education Council Membership and Bylaws
  • ESC Update

May 2013

  • Introduction with Associate Dean for Admissions
  • Medical School Strategic Plan

April 2013

  • Longitudinal Clerkship at VA
  • Subinternship in Medicine
  • 2013 Match Results and Statistics

March 2013

  • Best Practices in Medical Education
  • Innovations Proposal
  • Teamwork EPA
  • Education Steering Committee Update

February 2013

  • EC Membership Update
  • Learning Environment Rounds
  • AMA Grant
  • Education Steering Committee Update

January 2013

  • Education Steering Committee Update
  • LCME Update: MS 3-4 Learning Environment
  • Mistreatment and Harassment of Medical Students

2012

December 2012

  • EPAC Discussion
  • Education Steering Committee Update
  • State of Curriculum

November 2012

  • IWG Report
  • Health Care Summit Outcomes
  • IPE at the University of Minnesota
  • UME-GME-CME Continuum of Education

October 2012

  • Anatomy Memorial
  • Role and Responsibility for Moving Work Groups Forward
  • Key Policy Review: Year 1 and 2 Grading Policy

September 2012

  • Black Bag Update
  • Integrated Work Groups on Basic Sciencec
  • ESC Update
  • Admissions Annual Summary

August 2012

  • ESC Update
  • LCME Update
  • CUMED, Scientific Foundations, and Clinical Education Committee Chair Reports

June 2012

  • Status of Faculty Search
  • LCME Report
  • Black Bag Training
  • COSSS and SCC Reports
  • ESC Integrated Work Groups
  • EPAC Discussion

May 2012

  • ESC Update
  • Dual Degrees and Flex MD
  • AOA Chapter Updates

April 2012

  • Graduation Announcements
  • All University Distinguished Teaching Awards
  • Recommendation on EPAC
  • Match 2012 and Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP)
  • MSPE - Medical Student Performance Evaluation

March 2012

  • Reporting Grades on Transcript Policy
  • Secure Exam Policy
  • Clinical Course Grades Policy
  • LCME Debrief
  • Match Information

February 2012

  • Seven Domains of Competence
  • Reporting Grades on Transcript Policy
  • Secure Exam Policy
  • Clinical Course Grades
  • Program Annual Summaries: State of the Curriculum Report
  • LCME: Site Visit Prep

January 2012

  • Medical School Faculty Forum with President Kaler
  • Mistreatment and Harassment Reporting System
  • LCME Update

2011

December 2011

  • LCME Update
  • Update - Medical Education Searches
  • National Residency Match Program

November 2011

  • Year 1-4: Student Education Records Policy
  • LCME Update
  • Restructure of Education Governance
  • Medical Education Vice Dean Search

October 2011

  • LCME Mock Site Visit Follow-Up

September 2011

  • Leadership Changes
  • Duluth Recruitment
  • LCME Update
  • Program Annual Summaries: Admissions and USMLE Step 1, 2CK, 2

August 2011

  • Orientation
  • LCME
  • Program Annual Summaries: MD/PhD and RPAP
  • Academic Calendar Duluth, 2011-2012

July 2011

  • Education Steering Committee
  • LCME Update
  • Medical Student Mistreatment - MN Daily
  • UME Leadership Changes

May 2011 

  • Compact for Teaching and Learning (renewal)
  • Education Council Membership
  • Program Annual Summaries: Future Minnesota Doctors
  • LCME: Subcommittee Update
  • Academic Calendar 2011-2012

April 2011

  • LCME
  • Student Duty Hours Policy
  • Match- 2010 Data
  • Annual Program Summaries: Committee on Student Scholastic Standing-TC and Scholastic Standing Committee-Duluth
  • Grade and Exam Policies- Education Steering Committee Proposal

February 2011

  • LCME
  • Education Steering Committee
  • Clinical Competence Assessment
  • Milestone I
  • Kogan Workshop Follow-Up

January 2011

  • Clinical Learning Objectives
  • LCME
  • Scientific Foundations Committee Update
  • Education Steering Committee Update
  • Clinical Education Committee Update
  • Program Annual Summaries: Fled MD/Dual Degree Programs and Status of the Curriculum

2010

November 2010

  • Transitions
  • LCME
  • AAMC
  • CUMED
  • Grading Policy
  • Education Steering Committee

October 2010

  • LMCE Update
  • Exam Development Requirements

September 2010

  • LCME
  • Grading Policies
  • New Curriculum Update
  • Program Annual Summaries: Admissions (TC and Duluth) and USMLE Step 1, 2CK, 2CS

August 2010

  • LCME Update
  • Elective Review
  • Oversight of Curriculum - Duluth
  • Program Annual Summaries: RPAP

June 2010

  • Consent Agenda
  • Program Annual Summaries: MD/PhD
  • Required Curriculum Decisions
  • Dean's Vision Statement - Curriculum

May 2010

  • LCME Update
  • Vision Statement - Dean's Recommendation
  • Program Annual Summaries: Match Data and Minnesota Future Doctors

April 2010

  • LCME Update and George Washington Visit
  • Medical School Commencement
  • Q & A - Medical Education Web site

March 2010

  • Small Group Session Rooms
  • Duluth Strategic Task Force
  • LCME
  • Program Annual Summaries: Scholastic Standing Committees Duluth and Twin Cities

February 2010

  • LCME Update
  • Communication Plan
  • Medical School Programs Annual Summary
  • Curriculum Revision

January 2010

  • AHC-Wide Inter-professional Course
  • Education Steering Committee Report: Update on Status of Revised Courses and Clinical Courses, 2010-2011

2009

December 2009

  • Frank Cerra, MD
  • Clinical Competence Exam
  • AAMC Articles
  • USMLE Update

November 2009

  • Chin-To Fong, MD
  • University e-Education Peer Review
  • Education Steering Committee Review
  • Proposed Curriculum Threads: Executive Summaries of Nutrition, Public Health, and Infectious Disease
  • Service Learning Task Force Report

October 2009

  • Update on Duluth Admissions
  • Chin-To Fong, MD
  • Proposed Curricular Threads: Service Learning, Nutrition, Public Health, and Infectious Disease
  • Chart on Program Reports to Education Council
  • Clarify Policy Approval Process
  • Consent Agenda

September 2009

  • Revision to Evaluation Process
  • Education Council Membership
  • ACGME Institutional Site Visit and GME Work Plan
  • Dean-appointed Task Forces

August 2009

  • Twin Cities Admissions Update, Paul White
  • Clinical Competency Assessment Update
  • Curriculum Planning
  • Dr. Mark Paller, Executive Vice Dean

June 2009

  • Years One and Two Curriculum Retreat, June 15, 2009, Preliminary Report
  • Twin Cities Calendar and Duluth New Doctor Calendar
  • Approved Education Principles

May 2009

  • Follow-up on Program Evaluation
  • May 1st letter from Dean Powell
  • Retreat: June 15, 2009

April 2009

  • 2009 Match Results
  • Revised Education Principles
  • LCME Issues for accreditation

March 2009

  • Remarks, Dean Deborah Powell
  • Clinical Competence Exam
  • LCME Issues for Accreditation

February 2009

  • AHC MED 2010 Proposal
  • Program Evaluation

January 2009

  • Clinical Electives
  • Scholarship Review Committee
  • AHC Program Application

2008

December 2008

  • Duluth New Doctor Calendar: Discussion and Vote for Approval
  • Update on Curriculum Retreats
  • MED 2010 timetable

November 2008

  • Proposed Calendars for MED 2010

October 2008

  • Debriefing: MED 2010 Summit

September 2008

  • Approval of MED 2010 Principles
  • New Doctor Program in Duluth
  • International Students at the U of Minnesota Medical School

August 2008

  • 2008 Orientation
  • Statement of Commitment Class of 2012
  • Admissions Update
  • MED 2010 Principles