Join Logan and Dr. Culican, Designated Institutional Official at the University of Minnesota Medical School, as they discuss the structure and function of the Program Evaluation Committee (PEC).

Links

• Podcast Website
• Program Director Website
• For the full transcript, click here
• Email gme@umn.edu for additional questions and/or help with your PEC

Question and Time

• What values or traits should the program director be looking for when appointing new members?  01:08
• Should faculty included on the PEC be just from core rotations? 02:19
• Is there a max number of people that you can appoint to a committee? 02:57
• What is the ideal number and type of people that should be on a PEC? 04:00
• If there's a disagreement among an equal amount of the committee, who has the final say? 05:33
• How do you get someone to join a PEC that you feel could be beneficial to it? 06:57
• Should a new committee be chosen every year, or once the members are appointed, do they just stay on for the entire time with their program? 08:30
• Have you ever had a problem? Or do you know of anybody that's ever had a problem with maybe a committee member, really not doing what they should be doing on the committee? 11:22
• Is it smart for the program director to be the chair or maybe even beyond the committee? 12:01
• Is there a specific focus that the program evaluation committee should always discuss when they meet? 13:00
• Is there a certain number of times that the program evaluation committee should meet throughout the year? 16:27
• How do you ensure that the program evaluation committee is doing what they're supposed to be doing? 17:41
• Being the DIO, do you get to review the Annual Program Evaluations? 19:21
• Does that Annual Institution Review (identical to APE) survey also have kind of smart logic in a way where it reminds them of things that they need to include in the APE? 21:46
• Do you find any deficiencies in the AIRs (APEs) when you get them? 22:00
• With the AIRs/APEs, are there common, maybe errors that you find a lot? 23:11
• Are there other resources that the Graduate Medical Education Office offers for program directors or program evaluation committees to utilize? 24:55
• Is there a way that they can get in touch with the GME? 26:45
• Anything else that you wanted to mention? 27:01