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Career Launch Operations Committee Charge

Updated 9/2020

Introduction
The Bridges Curriculum is designed to produce physicians for the 21st Century who improve health and reduce suffering. To govern this new complex curriculum, the Medical Education Leadership and the Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy developed a new governance structure that streamlines communication across committees, improves curricular integration, and incorporates the responsibilities and management of all new and existing components of the curriculum. The structure aims to be inclusive of students, clinical and basic science faculty, as well as staff and administrative leadership.

Career Launch Charge
This charge document describes the role and responsibilities of the Career Launch Operations (CL Ops) Committee. Beginning August 1, 2017, the CL Ops Committee will report to the Executive Committee and will be responsible for overseeing the operations, procedures and quality improvement of the Career Launch phase of the curriculum, including all elements within this phase (Clinical Electives, Ambulatory Care Experiences (TRACE), Inquiry Deep Explore and CODA). The CL Ops Committee has the authority to recommend procedural and content changes related to the Career Launch phase of the curriculum, within the scope of existing curricular policies and in alignment with the program objectives. Any proposed program, policy, and significant course scheduling changes are to be vetted by the Executive Committee with consideration of the appropriateness of the proposed action in the context of the overall curriculum, service to students, and School of Medicine and University missions.

The diagram below demonstrates the reporting relationship of the 4 Operations subcommittees of the Executive Committee.

relationships in the academic senate

The management of Program Evaluation resides with the Director of Program Evaluation and the evaluations team. Relevant program evaluation data/reports will be shared across the appropriate governance committees as part of the CQI process.

The specific responsibilities of the CL Ops Committee, as charged by the Executive Committee are to:

  1. Monitor (as scheduled) the following LCME standards to help ensure the compliance of the School of Medicine in the Career Launch phase of the curriculum: 
    • Standard 11.3: Oversight of Extramural Electives
    • Standard 11.3: System for collecting evaluations from extramural rotations
    • Standard 11.3: Extramural elective student assessment used by school
  2. Monitor curricular operations, execution of policies, and maintenance of quality and appropriate distribution of curricular content in the Bridges Curriculum within the Career Launch phase and its elements; 
  3. Ensure that students experience a consistent and integrated learning experience across courses in Career Launch including a manageable workload; 
  4. Promote and oversee ongoing curricular innovations within the Career Launch phase, ensuring consistency with the vision and goals of the Bridges Curriculum with a focus on continuous quality improvement;
  5. Collaborate with other subcommittees to maintain and improve horizontal and vertical integration of content throughout all curricular elements in Career Launch and across the other curriculum phases, especially in Foundations 2;
  6. Review Course and Clerkship (CCPR) Summary Reports for Career Launch courses with CCPR Teams to inform the quality improvement plans for courses; 
  7. Work with the Technology Enhanced Education (TEE) unit to integrate effective and efficient digital curriculum that enhances student mastery of the Career Launch curriculum.
  8. Communicate issues, questions or concerns to appropriate subcommittees, the Executive Committee, or associate dean in a timely manner;
  9. Deliberate on issues that are presented to the CL Ops Committee and provide recommendations/response to the person or committee that requested the CL Ops feedback.

Membership:
The CL Ops Committee is comprised of the clinical faculty leaders, the Director of Inquiry, students, staff, and evaluation team representative, among others. The CL Ops Committee is chaired by a clinical faculty leader and stewarded by the lead CL staff member. The Associate Dean for Curriculum will be a member of this Committee and provide leadership support to the Chair as needed.

Meetings:
The CL Ops Committee will meet monthly and the Chair will represent the committee and present any critical issues at the monthly Executive Committee meeting.