LCME Determination 2013Geisel School of Medicine

Richard J Simons MD, MACPSenior Associate Dean for Medical EducationAssociate Vice President for Health Affairs

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The Good News . . .

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Accreditation Status

• Continued accreditation for an eight-year term• Next survey: 2020/2021

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And, we have lot’s to do!

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Non-Compliance Areas

1. IS-12 Inter-professional education: students should have opportunity to learn in environments with students enrolled in other health professions

2. IS-16 Diversity: the institution must have policies and place to achieve appropriate diversity among its students, faculty and staff

*Finding: lack of a coordinated and systematic strategy to increase diversity of the faculty*

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Non-Compliance Areas

3. ED-1 Institutional Objectives*Finding: While there are well-defined objectives, it is unclear how these overarching objectives are used to design the objectives and learning outcomes of the courses/clerkships. It is unclear how the clerkship directors utilized the school wide objectives to develop the form.

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Non-Compliance Areas

4. ED-8 Comparability across sites (repeat citation!)*Finding: efforts to collate data in clerkships began in 2010 but analysis and action plan to respond to differences across sites has yet to occur.

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Non-Compliance Areas

5. FA-10 Annual Faculty Reviews*Annual reviews with faculty is not uniformly practiced*

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Compliance with monitoring areas

1. ED-5A Active Learning*Finding: although there has been progress, pedagogy remains predominantly lecture based*2. ED-24 Resident as Teachers*Finding: independent student analysis raised concerns about resident preparation for teaching. A centralized program has just been initiated

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Compliance with monitoring areas

3. ED-33, ED-35 Integrated Responsibility and Curriculum Review

*Finding: The MEC now has a codified process of reviewing courses, not all components and segments of curriculum have undergone review. The process does not contain a plan for periodic review of the components of the curriculum. *

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Compliance with monitoring areas

4. ED-38 Duty Hours*Finding: “There remain issues relating to duty hours with a few clerkships, notably, surgery, ob-gyn and inpatient pediatrics which are being addressed.”5. MS-8 Pipeline Programs to

Enhance Diversity

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Compliance with monitoring areas

6. MS-32 Student Mistreatment*Finding: The AAMC GQ demonstrated a high level of student mistreatment. Geisel has implemented a number of programs to address this issue.*

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Thanks for your efforts in this process!