Minutes 9/28/98

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Present:                                                                         

Sarita Kaza		Doug Gauld		Mike Wein		Margaret Chou

Jess Heller		Dave Hu			Manish Parikh		Deb Klugewicz

Nicole Hindman		Eric Silver				

                                                          

Not Present: (*Excused)

*Evelyn Ha		*Ben Hamar		Ethan Cowan		*Demetre Daskalakis

*Jeremy Poppers		*Dave Poppers		*Greg Evangalista

Class Announcements

Class of 1999
Arman Afagh will be starting up Clinical Correlations soon.

Class of 2000
There are Scrubs being distributed as we speak.
The class meeting (Sept 16) went well.

Class of 2001
The first years class election were supposed to be on Thursday (Sept 17th) but we didn't get quorum - only about 50 people were present. Someone is running for each position but there is no position which is opposed. We will attempt again on Thursday (Sept 24) at the end of an anatomy lecture.
Applications for the Clerkship committee will be given to Eric by members of the class and the council will vote next week on who should be on the committee.
Dr. Abramson is waiting for the timeline to be completed
Nicole met with Dean Haynes about instituting a professionalism workshop at the end of the second year. Dean Haynes wanted Nicole to organize it or to get another student to organize it. It was suggested that instead there be either a professionalism discussion dinner or a pamphlet/booklet made up and this be done by the Dean's office, not by students.
The second year Path exam is on the morning after Yom Kipper, and there have been arrangements made for certain individuals to take it later in the day. The student council believes that the professors should be more aware of the holidays when designing the schedules.

MD/PhD

Old Business:

BUDGET - Golf Club: The budget was approved minus %10 which is to be paid to club participants. The club leaders will be informed that the club should be open to the entire student body.

BUDGET - Psych Club: The psych club was approved for 8 IOI's for pizza for a meeting each month.

New Business:

LCME: A discussion of the issues which we consider to be important to the student body and should be focused on during our discussions with the administration during the upcoming months.

The issues which we consider to be of the utmost importance are listed initially and have stars next to them. The issues without stars are listed in no particular order:

** The Library (including study space and computers which we feel should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Dean's office)
* Housing
* Issues of minority and gender equity
* Career Counseling
Safety between Bellevue, the VA, and the dorms
Security
The wiring of Skirball
Reform of the Basic Science Curriculum
Reform of the Clinical Years Curriculum
Say in monetary issues (especially with the merger threatening to lessen our supply of funds)
Dental Coverage
Who controls approval of our budget
Recreational Facilities (especially a gym)
Cafeteria issue (including the staff and the need for a Kosher Kitchen)
Problems with the North Shore Shuttle
An Honor Code
Details of selection for AOA should be released to the student body

We would also like to acknowledge some of the qualities of the school of medicine which the students consider to be exceptionally valuable and should not be altered. This is by no means a comprehensive list and again is listed in no particular order:

Supply of money
Student Activities Office
Pass/Fail grading system
Orientation
Conference attendance by students
Our clubs and the support they receive
The public service of the student body
Charity events carried out by the student body

MEETING WITH DEAN LESSER: Eric and Doug met with Dean Lesser to discuss budgetary issues. Dean Lesser expressed interest in examining the amount of money spent on sending more people to conferences than any other school. We expressed the student council's support for sending many people to the conferences but made it clear that we don't expect to automatically approve as many people to go to the conferences as a club asks for. The decision is hers. The meeting was interrupted because of an Administrative emergency and it has been rescheduled.

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