Workshop 2:Physiology’s Place in the Academic Medical Center

Michael J. Joyner and Thomas A. PressleyMayo Clinic &

Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterDecember 5, 2014

Scenarios

• Your dean wants to eliminate subject-based courses in favor of a more integrated curriculum.

• Your school is organizing a department that will specialize in medical education.• Management of the physiology course is being transferred outside the

department.• Promotion and tenure still requires significant teaching, but the number of lecture

hours are being reduced.• Fewer and fewer students are matriculating with a solid background in physics and

chemistry.• Your university or state wants to start a new medical school.

1. Your dean wants to eliminate subject-based courses in favor of a more integrated curriculum.

2. Your school is organizing a department that will specialize in medical education.

3. Management of the physiology course is being transferred outside the department.

4. Promotion and tenure still requires significant teaching, but the number of lecture hours are being reduced.

5. Fewer and fewer students are matriculating with a solid background in physics and chemistry.

6. Your university or state wants to start a new medical school.

Focus Group Suggestions

• Select Group Recorder• Develop strategies• Identify

1. Advantages2. Disadvantages3. Opportunities4. Threats

Identify1. Advantages2. Disadvantages3. Opportunities4. Threats

Develop strategies

Select a group member to be the recorder. He or

she will be responsible for summarizing your

group’s discussion during the wrap-up.

Workshop Wrap-up• Summaries from different focus groups• Any take-home messages?