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Image description: A two-and-a-half page letter featuring a formal layout.
An copy of the text may be found on MSDCI's public google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VG-T-eChpFvtW-58EvU2Flcp-wm9M8rH/view

Image description: The front cover of a book titled "Equal Access for Students with Disabilities: The Guide for Health Science and Professional Education." Text towards the bottom of the cover list the editors: Lisa M. Meeks, Neera R. Jain, and Elisa…

Framing disability as a dimension of diversity is a relatively new strategy adopted by advocates to promote disability inclusion in medicine. Over the last several decades medical schools came under increasing pressure to improve the diversity of…

Image description: The cover of a book, mostly blue with intersecting vertical and horizontal yellow blocks and an uneven circular blob in rainbow colors that resembles refracted light in a soap bubble. The white text reads “Disability as Diversity”…

In the decades since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, individual undergraduate and graduate medical education programs and the national bodies responsible for accrediting these programs slowly began to recognize the need to…

Technical standards, itemized physical and mental capacities that medical schools require students meet, represent a particularly trenchant and slow-to-change manifestation of medical school disability exclusion—and discrimination. Medical schools…