MINUTES

Present:

MFA Executive board:

Dr. Kathryn R. Challoner President
Dr. Robert H. Stellwagen Past President
Dr. Harvey Kaslow President- Elect
Dr. Loren Laine Sceretary
Dr. Jerry Gates Member at large.

Representatives:

Anesthesiology - absent
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Dr. Frank Markland
Cell and Neurobiology - absent
Children's Hospital - absent
Emergency Medicine - absent
Family Medicine: Dr. Steven Stumpf
Medicine - absent
Molecular microbiology and Immunology: Dr. Axel Schonthal
Neurological Surgery - absent
Neurology - absent
Norris Medical Library: Alice Kawakami
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Dr. Rebecca Sokol
Ophthalmology - absent
Orthopedics: Dr. Tom Hedman.
Otolaryngology: Dr. Dennis O'Leary
Pathology: Dr. Arnis Richters
Pediatrics: Dr. Laura Wachsman
Physiology and Biophysics : Dr. Herbert Leisellman
Preventive medicine: Dr. Jim Gauderman
Psychiatry and behavioral Sciences: Drs. Bruce Gross/ Henry Slucki
Radiation Oncology: Dr. Sulvia Formenti
Radiology - absent
Ranchos Los Amigos - absent
Surgery - absent
Urology - absent

A quorum was not present.

MEDICAL FACULTY ASSEMBLY

Dec. 2, 1997

1) The minutes of October 7th could not be approved due to the absence of a quorum.
    Dr. Challoner announced that a transcript will be made of the open meeting November 6th, 1997.

2) Report on FEC meeting of November 19th. Dr. Harvey Kaslow

a) The University will be requiring that all new staff members hired after December 1, 1997 sign an arbitration agreement as a condition of their employment. This document will be co-signed on behalf of the University by a Dean or Department Chair. in addition, all employees hired after January 1, 1994 will also be required to sign the arbitration agreement. This policy did not apply to faculty members.

b) Dr. Kaslow reported that a large amount of the time of the FEC meeting were spent on MFA resolutions 002 & 003. He had informed the FEC of the desire of Faculty for written contracts defining the terms of their employment (that salary notification letters were not an acceptable alternative) and that contracts should be issued in a timely fsahion as required by the Faculty handbook.

With regard to Resolution 002, after intensive discussion, points one and three were deleted by the FEC and point 2 amended to read " The FEC recommends that the Provost work with the School of Medicine administration to develop a program that will facilitate the issuance of contracts in a timely manner." This revised recommendation passed unanimously.

With regard to Resolution 003, after discusson, the word "Dean" was changed to "appropiate University officer" and points 1 & 3 were deleted. The amendments were incorporated with all members voting in favor except for Dr. Kaslow who voted no. The revised resolution 003 was then passed with all in favor except Dr. Kaslow who abstained.

The Dean then announced the formation of four new separate task forces that will address the following issues:

• Governance of the School of Medicine
• Review process for the department chairs
• Definition of tenure for future faculty
• Fostering career development for junior faculty at the School

The MFA will have representation on all these committees.

Dr. Kaslow then presented to the MFA a proposed recommendation: "Commitment to the Faculty handbook." After discussion by the representatives, it was felt that no further ground would be gained by this recommendation - rather that we should inform the Academic Senate of our efforts to secure contracts for tenured faculty and communicate to the Dean our williness to obtain contracts for special faculty. To this end, a MFA special task force was formed with Dr. J. Gates as the chair to look at the issue of contracts for special faculty.

Dr. Stellwagen distributed the MFA Report delivered at the LCME Site Visit, November 10th, 1997. Appreciation was expressed to the team for their hard work and communications on behalf of faculty.

The results of the special election of Executive Noard members were announced and none of the candidates from the School of Medicine were elected. MFA Resolution 97/98-05 on "Archiving documents relating to the governance and administration of the University and its Schools and other subdivisions to the University Library" passed. The MFA's report to the LCME site visitors was distributed to the Academic Senate.

Dr. Challoner distributed correspondance relating to the dual compensation letter received by County physicians and the response. She reported that Dr. Van der Meulen had recieved a letter from Dr. Thomas of DHS addressing topics for review during the CPSA negotiations. Dr. Van der Muelen will be establishing a committee comprised of members from the MFA, APLACH and faculty headed by Sol Bernstein to address Dr. Thomas' negotiation issues (the list of eight questions was distrbuted.)

The addendum of Dr. Craft's letter on the medical teaching in the Department of Cell and Neurobiology was distributed.