Title |
Learning from Physicians with Disabilities and Their Patients
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Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, October 2016
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DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.10.stas1-1610 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Joel A DeLisa, Jacob Jay Lindenthal |
Abstract |
Although progress has been made in diversifying medical school admissions and faculty, this has not extended to physicians with physical disabilities. To improve our understanding of medical students and physicians with physical and sensory disabilities, the authors propose systematically gathering information on the needs and experiences of four groups: physicians who had disabilities before beginning practice, physicians whose disabilities were incurred during their medical careers, physicians drawn from those two groups, and patients of physicians with disabilities. It is hoped these data would be used by counselors, administrators, and admissions committees in advising medical school applicants with disabilities and in revising institutional policies with a view to increasing matriculation and graduation rates of medical students with disabilities. |
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United States | 14 | 44% |
Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 3% |
Canada | 1 | 3% |
Philippines | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 15 | 47% |
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Members of the public | 20 | 63% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 25% |
Scientists | 3 | 9% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
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Singapore | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 46 | 98% |
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Student > Master | 5 | 11% |
Other | 5 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 11% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 6% |
Other | 7 | 15% |
Unknown | 14 | 30% |
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Psychology | 4 | 9% |
Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 4% |
Other | 6 | 13% |
Unknown | 15 | 32% |