LCME Self Study

The LCME Executive Committee selected six Targeted Areas for Improvement (TAFIs)

 

Project Leaders

Office(s) of Curricular Affairs and Office(s) of Student Affairs

Objectives

To increase student satisfaction with awareness of and responsiveness to student feedback and to improve operations for communicating changes made due to student feedback 

Project Description

Creation of two targeted newsletters and a webpage to document and disseminate changes made based on student feedback

Anticipated Outcomes

Increased student satisfaction data (e.g., internal surveys, GQ, and ISA)

 

 

Project Leaders

Office(s) of Admission, Faculty Affairs, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence

Objectives

Update and streamline reporting of student and faculty demographics; monitor recruitment and retention efforts of diverse students, faculty, and senior administrative staff; develop a system for reporting pipeline program outcomes

Project Description

Review and revise recruitment and retention efforts of diverse students, faculty, and senior administrative staff; increase the number of faculty providing demographic information through increased communication; identify a position for pipeline program tracking

Anticipated Outcomes

Sustain the current level of or increase the percentage of diverse medical students, faculty, and senior administrative staff; reporting of common outcomes associated with pipeline programs 

Project Leaders

Office(s) of Assessment

Objectives

Increase internal compliance related to student-reported observation of the relevant portions of the history and/or physical exam

Project Description

Refine how data is captured and reported; Update the list of required skills to be observed for each clerkship; Refine content on required observations of students to the Residents as Teachers module; Modify mid-clerkship self-assessments to intervene by encouraging students to create a plan to be observed if they report no observation 

Anticipated Outcomes

Increased rates of student-reported observations of history and physical exams on the GQ and/or internal surveys

Project Leaders

Office(s) of Assessment

Objectives

Update assessment guiding principles to include formative mid-course/clerkship narrative feedback for all courses and clerkships; Increase faculty and student understanding of the quality and quantity of pre-clerkship and clerkship feedback

Project Description

Build assessment-focused faculty development opportunities into existing retreats’ update materials and methods used to orient students to the assessment systems and requirements in both the pre-clerkship and clerkship settings

Anticipated Outcome

Increased student satisfaction with the quality and quantity of pre-clerkship and clerkship feedback on internal surveys

Project Leaders

Office(s) of Student Affairs 

Objectives

To increase student satisfaction with information on career advising and information about specialties 

Project Description

Develop and/or increase offerings related to specialty advising and implement mandatory class meetings to disseminate important information to students related to career planning; Increase staffing for career planning 

Anticipated Outcomes

Increased number of related pre-clerkship and clerkship/M4-5 sessions held; Increased percent of: students completing Student-Generated Educational Plan and/or documented advisor network description; Increased student satisfaction data (e.g., GQ and ISA)

Project Leaders

Office of Financial Aid

Objectives

Increase student satisfaction with financial aid and debt counseling services 

Project Description

Develop tools to improve medical student satisfaction and confidence in financial aid services and to enhance their personal knowledge of debt management, including enhanced customer service and engagement activities and more robust financial literacy programming and resources. Piloting the one-on-one AAMC loan repayment sessions with graduating students with > $100,000 in debt

Anticipated Outcomes

Increase student satisfaction data (e.g., GQ and ISA)

Subcommittees:

Lina Mehta, Co-Chair
Christine Warren, Co-Chair
Christian Essman
Liz Myers
Jennifer Yoest
Stephanie Harris
Mimi Lam
David Wald

 

Xiaomei Song, Co-Chair
Beth Bierer, Co-Chair
Anastasia Rowland-Seymour
Wei Xiong
Camille Sabella
Carol Chalkey
Jennifer Lennon
Martin Snider
Samina Yunus
Melissa Jenkins

 

Amy Wilson-Delfosse, Co-Chair
Neil Mehta, Co-Chair
Minoo Darvish
Anastasia Rowland-Seymour
Colleen Croniger
Karen Mulloy
Kelli Qua
Christine Maravec
Linda Graham
Wei Xiong
Craig Nielsen
Tawna Mangosh
Kate Miller
Corinne Bazella
Debra Leizman
Robert Jones
Keith Armitage
Kim Gifford
Lisa Navracruz
Trine Jorgenson
Christina Lindenmyer
Eric Yudelevich
Eric Kodish
Beth Bierer
Monica Yepes-Rios
David Gugliotti
Xiamei Song
Rosa Hand
Alan Hull

Lia Logio, Co-Chair
Bud Isaacson, Co-Chair
Kelli Qua, Co-Chair
Cynthis Kubu
Nicole Deming
Jill Stanley
Paul Bristol
Steve Ricanati
Christine Warren
Amy Wilson-Delfosse
Neil Mehta
Lina Mehta
Beth Bierer
Xiaomei Song
Marcy Pardee
Stan Gerson
Elizabeth Fehesenfeld
Robert Bonomo
John Chae
Lisa Camp
Beth Sersig
James Stoller

Cynthia Kubu, Co-Chair
Nicole Deming, Co-Chair
Tina Lining
Gene Barnett
Bob Salata
Mark Aulisio
Marjorie Greenfield
Usha Steifel
Jeremy Lipman
Jaividhy Dasarthy
Susan Freimark
Michael Dell
Sherrie Williams
Colleen Colbert
Jamie Stoller
Cliff Harding
Darin Croft
Dineen Lancaster
Beth Bierer
John Chae
Robert Bonomo
Patricia Gallagher
Nicole Maronian
Matthias Buck  
Alan Levine

Jill Stanley, Co-Chair
Paul Bristol, Co-Chair
Marcy Pardee
Michele Krantz
Jean Seneff
Jessica DeCaro
Pavel Ermakov
Mandy Chen
Andrea Bryner
Marvin Nieman
Robert Bonomo
Dan Simon
John Chae
Deb Leizman
Michelle Kraft
Jacob Schneider
Rachel Tong     

Steve Ricanati, Co-Chair
Christine Warren, Co-Chair
Jill Azok
Hope Barkoukis
Sharon Callahan
Cory Chevalier
Colleen Croniger
Christian Essman
Michael Faulx
Marjorie Greenfield
Erin Lamb
Jason Lambrese
Sara Lee
Tina Lining
Marina Magrey
Kate Miller
Ronda Mourad
Liz Myers
Todd Otteson
Angelique Redus-McCoy
Molly Simmons
Simran Singh
Siu Yan Scott
Monica Yepes-Rios
Nicholas Zaorsky
Michelle Romero
Akida Weir
Linda Graham
Jazmine Sutton
Rachel King
Stacey Jolly
Paul Bryson
Andrea Beyer
Tanya Moore
Robert Wilson

 

The Independent Student Analysis, or ISA, is a required student-run survey that is a critical component of the LCME reaccreditation process. The CWRU ISA committee is hard at work designing questions for the upcoming ISA survey to be distributed in the Fall of 2023. Results from the upcoming 2023 ISA survey will be made available on this webpage. Representatives from all programs and classes are represented on the ISA Committee: 

Program

Class

Representatives 

University Program

 

2024

Adhayana Paul, Julia Feinstein*

2025

Gillian Michaelson*, Mark Ricciardi

2026

Mackenzie Deighen*, Michael Galetta

College Program

 

2024

Matthew Thompson*, James Sullivan

2025

Erin Sullivan*, Lydia Cassard

2026

Lydia DeAngelo

2027

Jacky Chen, Briana Rutland

MSTP

N/A

Natalie Hong

*Denotes co-leader