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Discourses regarding accommodations for work and education ubiquitously pair “accommodations” with the modifier “reasonable,” echoing language in the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and its Amendment Act (2008). Indeed, an entire subsection is…

Image description: A bubble at the top of the slide says "Qualified SWD [students with disabilities] requests accommodation in clinical setting." Straight lines connect this bubble, separately, to a series of bubbles that read, in order from left to…

A plethora of podcasts covering disability in medicine from many angles emerged since the late 2010s, corresponding with the increasing profile of disabled doctors and issues of inclusivity in medicine broadly.The Docs With Disabilities podcast was…

Jack Catlin in an interview for the organization It's Our Storyspeaks about how he became an architect and the importance of Universal Design.

This book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as…

February 2020 saw for the first time the appearance of a deaf doctor on national TV in the form of Dr. Laura Riley on the long-time running drama Grey’s Anatomy. Compared to Dr. Kerry Weaver several years ago, this representation is an authentic take…

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…

Medical students receive little-to-no training that focuses on disability specifically—from social, biomedical, or other clinical angles—and the slow pace of change in this regard is a likely factor in the long-standing biases against disabled…

Med Twitter, named for the hashtag that indexes it (#MedTwitter), is well-known and much used amongst healthcare professionals. A loose online community of healthcare professionals and students, #MedTwitter hosts diverse content: educational medical…

This novel, which revolves around a female gastroenterologist getting hit by a van leading her to being temporarily disabled and moving in with her estranged mother is another lost opportunity at exploring what it means for a doctor to be disabled.…