A call for disability health curricula in medical schools

Sanjana Ratakonda; Davis P Argersinger; Gabriella C Auchus; Caroline McGowan; Hannah Ship; David R Wang; Michael M McKee

doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2022.08.004

A call for disability health curricula in medical schools

Trends Mol Med. 2022 Dec;28(12):1012-1015. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2022.08.004. Epub 2022 Sep 12.

Authors

Sanjana Ratakonda¹, Davis P Argersinger², Gabriella C Auchus², Caroline McGowan², Hannah Ship³, David R Wang², Michael M McKee⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Michigan, Department of Family Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
² University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
⁴ University of Michigan, Department of Family Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Electronic address: mmmckee@med.umich.edu.

PMID: 36109318
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2022.08.004

Abstract

People with disabilities encounter significant health and health-care inequities yet disability health training in medical education remains inadequate. This Scientific Life article examines the need to integrate disability health education into medical school curricula and shares successful training examples that can serve as a framework for how to accomplish this.

Keywords: disabilities; disability health; medical education.

MeSH terms

Curriculum
Delivery of Health Care
Disabled Persons*
Education, Medical*
Humans
Schools, Medical