2006 Fact Sheet  

History

The Rice Intercollegiate Bowl strives to promote interdisciplinary health care, thinking and practice.  Student participants learn, by analyzing a realistic health care case, how the numerous health care disciplines can interact to provide comprehensive health care for patients.  The program at the University of Tennessee Health Science is named for the former Chancellor, Mr. Bill Rice, and the first Bowl was held January 28, 2003.

Format

The Rice Intercollegiate Bowl is designed to be fun as well as educational.  Students in all of the colleges on the Health Science Center campus are eligible to participate.  This includes students in the Colleges of Allied Health, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Health Science Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Social Work.  Students in the second half of their programs are particularly encouraged to apply.

Letters inviting students to nominate themselves as team members is sent to all students.  The faculty may also nominate students they feel are particularly outstanding.  The deans will choose the students who will participate from the nominees.  Students apply online.

The student participants will be randomly placed on one of three teams.  Each team will include one student from each college.  Prior to the competition, team members will receive a case study that will serve as the basis for the program.  The case study will be prepared by a group of faculty members representing all of the colleges on the Health Science Center campus.

Approximately one month prior to the competition, an orientation meeting will be held.  Student participants will be introduced to their teammates and given the case and a list of questions from the judges.  After a brief welcoming program, the students will begin to develop their strategies.  Teams will discuss the case study and brainstorm all possible approaches toward a solution.  Participants will not be allowed to discuss the case with faculty or colleagues outside of their individual teams.

The public program will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2006, from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on the Health Science Center campus.  The event will be open to all students and faculty and to the public.  Special invitations will be sent  to other health care institutions in the Memphis area, and relevant departments at other area colleges.

The competition itself will begin with brief opening remarks and introduction of the faculty judges and team members.  The teams will then, in turn, respond to two sets of questions posed by the judges.  A random drawing held at the orientation will determine the order in which teams will respond to questions.  Participants will not be allowed to consult references or textbooks during the competition.

Two rounds of questions will be presented to each of the three teams by a panel of judges.  During the first round, participants will be asked to respond to the questions they were given during the orientation session.  In the next round, they will respond to questions based on additional data provided at the end of the preceding round.   Each round will be completed in 30 minutes.  Team members are allowed to confer on the answers during each round.

Each member of the first place team will receive $250; members of the second place team will receive $150; and members of the third place team will receive $100.  A reception will be held immediately following the program to honor the participants.  

The case the first year was that of a graduate student who went to the dentist because of a broken tooth.  Although she initially stated that the tooth was damaged in a hallway accident, subsequent information revealed a history of domestic violence and substance abuse.

Scoring

The planning group that organized the event and developed the case study will serve as judges for the competition.  Each judge will submit a score for each team to the scorekeepers at the end of each round.  Scoring criteria will include knowledge, completeness of answers, evidence of critical thinking, evidence of interdisciplinary approach and presentation.  At the end of three rounds, the scores will be totaled and the winning team will be declared.

Planning Process

The Rice Intercollegiate Bowl is being planned by a group of faculty appointed by the deans of the colleges on the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.  Dr. Bettina Beech, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, is Chair of the planning group.

Members of the planning group include: