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Senate Review of the Faculty of Medicine

The final report of the Senate Review of the Faculty of Medicine is now available for review:

Final Report SRC and External Reviewers Faculty of Medicine, May 12, 2012

The Faculty of Medicine has made good progress on several fronts and many of the recommendations can be mapped back to the FoM strategic plan "The Way Forward" that is currently underway.

Members of the medical school community are invited to review the report and provide feedback on it and any of the recommendations it contains to: dean.medicine@dal.ca.

On behalf of the Faculty of Medicine, thank you to everyone who has participated in this important process.

Background
In 1998, the Faculty of Medicine completed a Senate Review.  The Faculty of Medicine will be undergoing a review by the senate of Dalhousie University in the fall of 2010.  As part of this process, the Faculty must prepare a self-study which is a unique opportunity to put before the University the issues and priorities of the medical school.

A draft Self Study Report will be completed by 30 June 2010 and will be circulated for feedback and revisions.  Final document will be submitted to the Office of Vice President – Academic Provost by August 2, 2010

Self Study Committee
In February 2010, a committee was established to prepare the Self Study Report for the Faculty of Medicine.  This committee includes:

Dr. Preston Smith, Co-Chair

Dr. Ray LeBlanc, CDHA

Shawna O'Hearn, Co-Chair

Dr. Patrick McGrath, IWK

Joanne Power, Dean's Office

Dr. Ken Rockwood, CDHA

Anne Weeden, Dean’s Office

Dr. Elizabeth Gold, Community

Diane Gorsky, Dean's Office

Luke Reynolds, Student Rep

Allison Gerrard, Dean's Office

Julie Boutilier, Graduate Student Rep

Dr. Gerry Johnston, Research, Medicine

Dr. Jean Marshall, Microbiology

Dr. Blye Frank, DME

Dr. Joan Sargeant, CME


Data Collection
         Survey: A survey was circulated to all faculty and staff and the deadline was 04 June 2010

         Focus Groups: Currently taking place with Med I-IV, Graduate, Post Docs and Residents

Reports: Clinical and basic science departments submitted reports for consideration by the committee.  Administrative units are also completing relevant information for the study

External Documents:

  • Currently undertaking an environmental scan to identify trends impacting research, education and programming within the Faculty of Medicine. 
  • Documents include FMEC, AAMC-HHMI Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians, CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research, and Securing the Future of Canada’s Academic Health Sciences Environmental Scan” report

 

Medicine External Reviewers (Adobe Acrobat)

FOM Senate Self Study November 30, 2010 (Adobe Acrobat)

Scope of Self Study (Adobe Acrobat)

Presentation to Town Hall in September (Microsoft PowerPoint)

Summary Info on Senate Report - 1 pager (Adobe Acrobat)

 

 

 
   
 
 
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