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DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection IV: Episode 21: policies towards disability inclusivity in the health sciencesEpisode 21: Collection IV: policies towards disability inclusivity in the health sciences. Article or Publication discussed: Authors: Liz Bowen, Emily Cleveland-Manchanda, Peppar E.P. Cyr, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Susan Havercamp, Kristi Kirschner, Rebecca Kronk, Lisa M. Meeks, Peter Poullos, Zoie Clarise Sheets, Dorothy W. Tolchin, Stephanie Pham Van, Silvia Yee, and Erik Parens Citation: Bowen, Liz, Emily Cleveland-Manchanda, Peppar E.P. Cyr, et al. "Anti-Ableist Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges." The Hastings Center. Issue Brief, 2024 https://www.thehastingscenter.org/anti-ableist-medical-education-meeting-the-challenges/. Description: The Hastings Center Issue Brief covered in t...
2025-11-2114 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection IV: EPISODE 20: "Addressing Ableism in Physician Well-Being Planning" (Quon, 2024)Title of Featured Article: Addressing Ableism in Physician Well-Being Planning Citation: Quon, Michael. 2024. "Addressing Ableism in Physician Well-Being Planning." JAMA 332 (4): 275–76. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.7736. Authors: Michael Quon Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rm5hiHNrxW0Gbs141BmLIPm48xvR_l9d/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=107682871199975293144&rtpof=true&sd=true Summary: Research and Resource Rounds episode 20 discusses Dr. Michael Quon's thoughtful assessment of the National Academy of Medicine's National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being. At the plan's core is a contradiction: while...
2025-08-1211 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection IV: Episode 19: AMA Organizational Strategic Plan to Advance Health EquityEpisode 19: AMA Organizational Strategic Plan to Advance Health Equity Collection IV: policies towards disability inclusivity in the health sciences. Article or Publication discussed: AMA's Authors: AMA (2024-2025) Citation: "AMA Organizational Strategic Plan to Advance Health Equity 2024-2025." 2024. American Medical Association. June, 2024. https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/ama-s-2024-2025-strategic-plan-advance-health-equity. Description: Research and Resource Rounds Episode 19 launches Collection IV: policies towards disability inclusivity in the health sciences. The episode examines how the AMA's 2024-2025 Organizational Strategic Plan to Advance Health Equity integrates disability consciousness into its vision for healthcare...
2025-06-1621 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection III: Episode 18: Physicians' Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care.Episode 18: "Physicians' Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care." Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion This collection features studies and testimonials that examine the current state of disability representation among health sciences students and professionals and that demonstrate how the presence of disabled healthcare practitioners and trainees benefits both patients and clinicians/trainees. Key works in this emerging literature are gathered in this cluster that includes qualitative studies, the results of quantitative data analyses, and personal testimonials. Title of Featured Article: "Physicians' Per...
2024-09-1016 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection III. Episode 17: 'Being on Both Sides': Canadian Medical Students' Experiences With Disability, the Hidden Curriculum, and Professional Identity Construction."Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion This collection features studies and testimonials that examine the current state of disability representation among health sciences students and professionals and that demonstrate how the presence of disabled healthcare practitioners and trainees benefits both patients and clinicians/trainees. Key works in this emerging literature are gathered in this cluster that includes qualitative studies, the results of quantitative data analyses, and personal testimonials. Title of Featured Article: Being on Both Sides': Canadian Medical Students' Experiences With Disability, t...
2024-02-0916 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection III. Episode 16. "Ethical and Public Health Considerations for Integrating Physicians with Mental Disability into the Physician Workforce"Title: Ethical and Public Health Considerations for Integrating Physicians with Mental Disability into the Physician Workforce. Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion Authors: Amalia Sweet, Omar Sultan Haque, and Michael Ashley Stein Description: Sweet, Haque, and Stein's article explores questions of and argues for increased support and inclusion of physicians with mental disability. Grounding their work in the framework of intersectional social justice, the authors examine medical cultural factors, safety questions, and logistics. They conclude that greater representation of and support for mental disability in...
2023-12-3116 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection III. Episode 15. "'Yourself in all your forms': A grounded theory exploration of identity safety in medical students"Description: Episode 15 discusses "'Yourself in all your forms': A grounded theory exploration of identity safety in medical students" (Bullock et al. 2023). Bullock and his colleagues develop a theory of identity safety through careful analysis of 16 in-depth interviews with 3rd and 4th medical students with a diverse range of identities and experiences. The article identifies and describes key dimensions of identity threat, threat mitigation, and identity safety. Three factors contributing to identity safety that emerged from the team's analysis: Agency to serve, upholding personhood, and a sense of belonging. Identity safety manifested as students sharing a particular minoritized identity with...
2023-10-1017 min
Docs With DisabilitiesEpisode 76: Bonus Research and Resource Rounds "The Evolution of Disability Language" Description: This 'bonus' listen of our Research and Resource Rounds covering the article, "The Evolution of Disability Language: Choosing Terms to Describe Disability" and authored, in part, by Dr. Ayers, is offered here as a bonus episode to Dr. Kara Ayers interview on our main podcast. In this article the authors enumerate a series of models used to conceptualize disability and the terminology associated with each model. They provide in-depth explorations of person-first and identity-first language, recommend avoiding euphemisms, and argue against the language restrictions imposed by some style guides. Article: "...
2023-09-2116 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection III. Episode 14. "Professionalism and Disabled Clinicians: The Client's Perspective."Title of Featured Article: Professionalism and Disabled Clinicians: The Client's Perspective. Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion Authors: Tal Jarus, Roberta Bezati, Sacha Trivett, Michael Lee, Laura Yvonne Bulk, Alfiya Battalova, Yael Mayer, Susan Murphy, Patricia Gerber, and Donna Drynan. Description: Episode 14 is the second of two sister-episodes exploring perceptions of disabled clinicians from a range of specialties. The article featured, "Professionalism and Disabled Clinicians: The Client's Perspective" (2020) analyzes how disabled clients and caregivers of people with disabilities responded to the prospect of being treated by...
2023-08-3010 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection III. Episode 13. "I Can Understand Where They're Coming From': How Clinicians' Disability Experiences Shape Their Interaction With Clients"Title of Featured Article: 'I Can Understand Where They're Coming From': How Clinicians' Disability Experiences Shape Their Interaction With Clients. (2020) Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion Authors: Alfiya Battalova, Laura Bulk, Laura Nimmon, Rachelle Hole, Terry Krupa, Michael Lee, Yael Mayer, and Tal Jarus Description: This is the first of sister-episodes exploring perceptions of disabled clinicians from a range of specialties. The article featured in this episode, 13, draws on the experiences of clinicians and trainees with disabilities via analysis of qualitative interviews. Th...
2023-08-1516 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection II. Episode 12. "ADEPT-CARE: A pilot, student-led initiative to improve care for persons with disabilities via a novel teaching tool"Title: ADEPT-CARE: A pilot, student-led initiative to improve care for persons with disabilities via a novel teaching tool Collection II: Integrating disability into health sciences curricula: implementation, recommendations, and the need for disability content in health sciences education Article: "ADEPT-CARE: A pilot, student-led initiative to improve care for persons with disabilities via a novel teaching tool." (2023) Authors: Lydia Smeltz, Sandra Carpenter, Lauren Benedetto, Nora Newcomb, Dana Rubenstein, Tonya King, Christopher Lunsford, and Ami L. DeWaters. 2023. Description: This article describes the student-led development and piloting of a didactic tool intended to assist m...
2023-06-2411 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection II. Episode 11. "Effect of Disability-Specific Education on Student Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities"Description: Today we cover the 2021 article, Effect of Disability-Specific Education on Student Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities by authors: Khalid Alahmari, Kanagaraj Rengaramanujam, Ravi Shankar Reddy, Paul Silvian Samuel, Irshad Ahmad, Venkata Nagaraj Kakaraparthi, and Jaya Shanker Tedla. This study is the first study in Saudi Arabia to look at the attitudinal effects of disability training amongst final-year health sciences students. The study also explored whether demographic variables, health sciences field, or exposure to disability had an effect on students' attitude change—or lack thereof. The investigators found a statistically significant change in the attitude sco...
2023-06-1608 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection II. Episode 10. "Using the health humanities to impart disability competencies to undergraduate medical students" Article: Using the health humanities to impart disability competencies to undergraduate medical students Authors: Singh, Khan, Dhaliwal, Khan DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101218 Description: In episode 10 we discuss the pedagogical method and results of a pilot project that used the health humanities to teach eight disability competencies to Indian undergraduate medical students. The authors' pioneering educational approach included disabled patient panels, forum theater (a form of Theater of the Oppressed), visual art, and a field trip to an integrated school educating disabled and non-disabled children. Transcript Keywords:
2023-05-0210 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection II. Episode 9. "Integrating Disability Into Health Sciences Curricula: Implementation, Recommendations, and the Need for Disability Content in Health Sciences Education."In Research and Resource Rounds Episode 9, we review Improvements in Students' Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities With or Without Semi-Structured Community-Based Interactions. The article describes and presents the results of a study in which the three authors tested the effect of a baseline curriculum and of an enhanced curriculum on doctor of physical therapy students' attitudes towards people with disabilities. Two student cohorts from the University of Texas El Paso's doctor of physical therapy program participated in the study which measured attitudes using two common measures: first, Attitudes Toward Disabled People or ATDP-A and the Multidimensional Attitudes S...
2023-04-1113 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection II. Episode 8. "Integrating Disability Into Health Sciences Curriculum"EPISODE 8 This article shares the findings of qualitative interviews investigating university health science educators' perspectives on and approaches to disability education at a New Zealand university. All participants reported that disability training was not a standard component of their field's curriculum. Instead, these educators incorporated piecemeal disability content where possible. The authors identify six "perceived advantages" of fore-fronting lived experience in materials and techniques used to teach health science students about disability embodiments and care. Interviewees argued that disability training material should appear regularly in the standard 4-year curriculum, perhaps as part of cultural competency lessons that...
2023-03-0710 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection II. Episode 7. "What Should We Teach about Disability?"This is the first episode of our second collection, Integrating disability into health sciences curricula: implementation, recommendations, and the need for disability content in health sciences education, we cover the 2021 article, "What Should We Teach about Disability? National Consensus on Disability Competencies for Health Care Education" published in the Disability and Health Journal by Havercamp, Barnhart, Robinson, and Whalen Smith. The authors describe the necessity of widespread and consistent disability training across interprofessional health education, an umbrella that encompasses medicine, nursing, social work, and psychology—among other disciplines. Taking up their own imperative, the authors propose a set...
2023-02-0915 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection I. Episode 6. "COVID-19 and the Need for Disability Conscious Medical Education, Training, and Practice."Episode 6 of Research and Resource rounds discusses the paper, "COVID-19 and the Need for Disability Conscious Medical Education, Training, and Practice." published in the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, as part of our collection disability in the health sciences: key arguments and issues at stake, language, and history. Article: Doebrich, Adrienne, Marion Quirici, and Christopher Lunsford. 2020. "COVID-19 and the Need for Disability Conscious Medical Education, Training, and Practice." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 13 (3): 393–404. https://doi.org/10.3233/PRM-200763. Authors: Doebrich, Adrienne, Marion Quirici, and Christopher Lunsford. Transcript Keywords: Disability Consciousness...
2023-01-1011 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection I. Episode 5. "Racialized Disablement and the Need for Conceptual Analysis of 'Racial Health Disparities" by Desiree ValentineEpisode 5 of Research and Resource rounds discusses the paper, "Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of "racial health disparities," published in the journal Bioethics, as part of our collection disability in the health sciences: key arguments and issues at stake, language, and history. Article: Racialized Disablement and the Need for Conceptual Analysis of 'Racial Health Disparities.' Author: Desiree Valentine Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12979. Transcript Keywords: Racialized Disablement Medical Racism Racial Health Disparities Disability terminology Disability...
2022-12-2111 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection I. Episode 4. "Prevalence of Disability among Medical Trainees and Physicians"In Episode 4 we review the prevalence of disability among individuals across the continuum of medical training and practice and data from three recently published studies that break down disability in medical school, residency, and among practicing physicians. Keywords: Disability Prevalence; Data, Medical Education, DocsWithDisabilities Transcript
2022-11-3009 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection I. Episode 3. "The Evolution of Disability Language: Choosing Terms to Describe Disability" by Erin E. Andrews, Robyn M. Powell, and Kara AyersThe authors enumerate a series of models used to conceptualize disability and the terminology associated with each model. They provide in-depth explorations of person-first and identity-first language, recommend avoiding euphemisms, and argue against the language restrictions imposed by some style guides. Article: "The Evolution of Disability Language: Choosing Terms to Describe Disability" by Erin E. Andrews, Robyn M. Powell, and Kara Ayers. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2022.101328 Key Words: Disability terminology, Disability language, Disability studies, Social model, Medical model, Health Sciences, Medical Education Transcript: https://docs.google.com/docu...
2022-11-1115 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection I. Episode 2. "Disability and the Training of Health Professionals" by Tom Shakespare, Lisa I. Iezzoni, and Nora E. GroceIn Episode two we review the thought provoking commentary: "Disability and the Training of Health Professionals" by Tom Shakespare, Lisa I. Iezzoni, and Nora E. Groce (Lancet, 2009). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)62050-X. The authors argue that equitable treatment of disabled patients is an issue of human rights that can only be achieved by improving disability education in health sciences education. They write that the topic of disability must be increased across the health sciences, from educational training to infrastructural adjustments and the representation of people with disabilities among health sciences professionals and students.
2022-09-2110 min
DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource RoundsCollection I. Episode 1. "An Introduction to DWD Research and Resource Rounds"The new Research and Resource Rounds are introduced: These mini-casts will provide an overview of literature and resources relevant to disability inclusion in the health sciences. Each short episode will review critical commentaries and research articles in 15 minutes or less. The podcast presents selected literature in themed "collections" listed in the podcast.
2022-09-1405 min