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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…

The profile and biography of Diana Anderson

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…

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”…

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…

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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…

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…