UNIVERSITY MEDICAL STUDENT COUNCIL
Minutes
FOR DECEMBER 3, 2005 MEETING
Meeting started at
I.
Welcome & Introductions by Jeehun
Kim and Tamika Alexander
II.
Motion was made by Yogi Patel, seconded and minutes
were unanimously approved for the
III.
Dean Gwen Lombard, RN, PhD: Standing in for Dean Lorenz who couldn’t be
here today. Welcome to
IV.
Campus Care Representatives Presentation (Michelle
and Michelle)
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CampusCare was
approved about a year and a half ago when students weren’t happy with MegaLife. The
premium has been kept the same for last 2 years. More benefits since MegaLife.
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My Claims portion of the website (use UIN as ID and
date of birth mmddyyyy as password). New changes: fields made easier to
understand. Company hired to do customer
service, causing process date not to be check date because checks are made in
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Providers tab:
Formulary has been updated. Non-formulary
request form, download form and submit to physician who will fill out the info
and fax it to be reviewed and approved. Letter
sent when reach 50 and 80% of cap ($2500) to give options.
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There was an issue of not having a local pharmacy
at
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Benefits:
Works like an HMO. Each campus
has its own website that can be accessed from the main site: www.uic.edu/hsc/campuscare. If you need a specialist you can be
referred. Referrals are processed in
about 3 days. $10 co pay. Can print off an ancillary benefits card
online. Prescription co pays at
designated pharmacy are 10/20 (generic/brand), if you go to a different pharmacy,
submit receipt to CampusCare for reimbursement less
the co pay. Should be getting free eye
exams at designated providers regardless if you buy glasses/contacts through
that provider. Psychiatrists are
contracted that will not be preceptors, PCP will have this information.
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Increased communication to CampusCare
providers. They are sent monthly
provider listings, eligibility lists and QRG (quick reference guide). CampusCare centers
are visited each semester. If providers
are not familiar with CampusCare, they are
re-educated.
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Survey was performed by a random sampling of
students. New survey will be sent out in
2/06 to students who have accessed services; the survey will also be shortened.
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Claims stats from MSO: 92% of claims processed in 30 days. 97% accuracy (goal is 99%). >3300 claims processed a month.
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If not having a life-threatening condition, contact
PCP before going to the ER for authorization.
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Contact Michelle Cabrera at chellec@uic.edu or Rosemarie Bastone-Leverenz at rbastone@uic.edu
with further questions or issues.
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In mid-January there will be a student advisory
committee with Dean Ginsberg to review benefits.
V.
President’s Report – Tamika
Alexander
A. Voting
rights extended to all students on CCSP.
B. Continue
good work on committees.
VI.
Vice-President’s Report – Yogi Patel
A. College Committee Reports
i.
CCR and CCSAS have not met yet. CCR has not met for years. CCSAS – Dr. Mauer
was the chair and he retired (although is still on faculty), it was hard for
him to chair this committee, it is in flux because discussed with Dean Sandlow for someone else to chair the committee. There should be resolution, for now it is on
hold.
ii.
Instruction
and Appraisal (CCIA) – Paul Jeziorczak
a.
Last
meeting was in Oct, Nov meeting cancelled.
b.
Next
meeting Dean Sandlow will talk about the feasibility
of increasing class size.
c.
One
set of learning objectives for surgery clerkship for all 4 campuses.
d.
Set
of required surgical cases. Revisit
med-cases.
e.
Myevaluations.com:
Dr. Kondos asked to be updated, hopefully will be
instituted the first of the year.
f.
Dipesh presented the Fundamental Principles of Course Evaluation
document, it was unanimously endorsed by CCIA and is
being sent to the College Executive Committee.
iii.
Student
Promotions (CCSP) – via email
a. The
meeting was held on Oct. 18th via videoconference with the other
three campuses. The majority of the meeting
is confidential and cannot be reported in the minutes. In general, recent
students who passed Step 1 were promoted to the M3 year and students who had
petitions/problems were discussed and issues were voted on to either grant
their appeal or not. The only new item
was the formation of the new subcommittees examining make-up exam policies and
promotion policies. It was decided that
there would be two sub-committees, one looking at the M1/M2 years and the other
looking at the M3/M4 years. Theses sub-committees
will consist of one student from each site and a few administrative members
from each campus and Dr. Rick Miller will be the chair. The sub-committees will have their first
meeting Oct. 24th or 25th depending on the
committee. As of know, no decisions on
policies were discussed, just the logistics of planning meetings and informing
the members. Finally, Dean Troy
mentioned that the goal is to hopefully have suggestions by Spring
of this academic year.
b. The
meeting was held on Nov. 16th via videoconference with the other
three campuses. The majority of the
meeting is confidential and cannot be reported in the minutes. Specifically for
UICOMP, an appeal by a student was discussed and voted on and then in recent
students who passed Step 1 were promoted to the M3 year. The other four sites has
general Step 1 updates and make-up exam/repeat year updates that needed to be
handled. Finally, the next date for the
two sub-committees, one looking at the M1/M2 promotion and the other looking at
the M3/M4 promotion policy was announced for Nov. 30th.
c.
Proposed
to see if Sue Hundorff would be willing to come to a
future meeting to discuss rankings etc.
iv.
Admissions
(CCA) – Milen Amde/Yogi
Patel
a.
Still
interview candidates
b.
Applications
are up, have surpassed last year’s totals, we are above the national increase.
c.
Vote
to raise number interviewed
d.
Need
to bring up issue of student screeners again
v.
Research
(CCR) – Graham
a.
Started
a student run Committee for Clinical Research (will probably change name) in
vi.
Foreign
Exchange (FEC) –
a.
Will
have meeting sometime next week either by teleconference or in person.
b.
Richardson
Scholarship for students for all 4 campuses doing exchange overseas. There was enough money to give all who
applied money, including King’s college.
VII.
Secretary’s Report – Katie Franzwa
A. Make
sure you signed in
B. Please
email/hand in a synopsis of reports to me (kfranz1@uic.edu)
VIII.
Treasurer’s Report – Avni
Vora
A. Reimbursements:
policy is you are reimbursed for travel if you carpool, unless you are the only
person from your site.
B. If
reimbursements are not submitted with in 60 days they will be taxed
C. Let Avni know if you did not receive UMSC listserv emails.
IX.
Historian’s Report – Yogi Patel
A. Directions
to
B. Yogi
will be updating the website over Winter break, be patient if the website is
down. Please email Yogi with suggestions
or links that you would like to be placed on the UMSC website. The website will be made more user friendly.
C. Researching
a hosted website for students to anonymously voice concerns.
X.
Organization of Student Representative’s Report
– Hershey Reddy
A. Video
will be watched next meeting
B. Student
duty hours, professionalism
C. Evaluation
of medical students – pass/fail system
D. OSR bylaw
changed – each school send 4 reps to national and regional meetings, primary
rep votes
E. Regional
meeting is in
XI.
Site Reports
A. Chicago
– Avni Vora
a. Health
Fair in spring to reach out to the community, if you would like to help with
the fair, let us know.
b. Chicago
Dean of OSA is leaving; the search for a permanent Dean will begin in the
beginning of next year. Dean Flaherty
wants to create 2 positions, a Chicago Dean and one for all 4 campuses. There is question as to how the selection
process will work; we would like to have representation from all 4 campuses to
have input in selecting that Dean. More
info to follow.
B.
a. M4 scheduling
is a hassle and is being reworked.
b. Call
rooms are made available for visiting students
c. Speaker
night on 11/16 on Away Rotations in Internal Medicine
d. Suggested
having speaker on managing life outside of medical school, alumni council will
help
e. Annual
formal, Snow Ball, 2/25 at a renovated warehouse.
f. Began
“Dean’s Mailbox” suggestion box for students to voice concerns, complaints are
brought up at meetings.
C.
a. Setting
up an anonymous open forum to help alleviate stress monitored by a psychiatrist,
this began because of a JAMA article, link of article will be sent out via UMSC
listserv
b. Next
executive committee meeting January 5th
c. October
28th had a Halloween party with sugar free candy for children
(especially diabetics).
d. Winter
social is December 15th; In February is the winter formal, all are
invited
e. Working
on improving Clinical Skills exam pass rate for M4s
f. Began
series of talks for M2 about Step 1 (~4 sessions)
D.
a.
b. UMSG
fall apparel sale is almost done, ~$3000 profit, there is
online sales with paypal. There were some issues with paypal towards the end due to the high amounts of revenue.
c. Free
Blood Pressure checks at the mall as community service and to raise awareness
that there is a Champaign/Urbana medical school. M3/M4s working with M1/M2s.
d. UMSG
auction is 2/6 at
e. Faculty
committee meeting next Thursday to move Physiology exams to coordinate with
Anatomy exams
f. Clinical
Research committee was established
g. Working
with
h. Donated
to Alternative Medicine Student group to host a speaker
i.
Independent
student-run free clinic (HeRMES;
http://www.hermes-clinic.org) held once per month, also did special school
physical clinics to get kids in school who were in danger of being
suspended."
E. MSP
a. Making
strides to make talks more interesting to non-MSPs in
XII.
Old Business
A. HPSC
representation – Connie Jung (cjung2@uic.edu) and Adam Meisel
(meisel@uic.edu) are the representative.
Funding day is the first Friday in March for awards up to $300,
including for away rotations/conferences.
B. Site-wide
social event: to be decided at individual sites
XIII.
New Business
A. New Dean
selection for OSA – see above
B. Proposed
amendments to UMSC constitution
i.
“From this day forth, two positions of UMSC
representatives to the Health Professions Student Council (HPSC) will be
created for a term of one academic year.
Both representatives will be required to attend all HPSC meetings or
designate a proxy as per the UMSC constitution.
Both will have full voting rights on HPSC. One representative will be required to attend
each UMSC meeting or designate a proxy as per the UMSC constitution. The representative will be granted full
voting rights on UMSC. If both
representatives attend the meeting, they will be granted a total of one vote.”
Moved, seconded and passed for temporary approval. Official responsibilities to be outlined at
the next meeting.
ii.
Proposed changes to Article IV: Selection, Succession,
and Removal were discussed, a motion was made to accept the changes, and they were
seconded and approved (2 were opposed).
iii.
Proposed to change Article VI: To facilitate having
the Dean of the college at the first UMSC meetings, the rotation would be changed
to have
C. Proposed
D. Proposed
i.
Symposium may be on that date, so this date may be
revised.
XIV.
Closing
Motion was made to adjourn, was
seconded Meeting ended at