Episode 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 launc...
Jun 16, 2025•21 min
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 liter...
Sep 10, 2024•17 min
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 qu...
Feb 09, 2024•16 min
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 ju...
Dec 31, 2023•16 min
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 ...
Oct 10, 2023•17 min
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, "...
Aug 30, 2023•11 min
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 f...
Aug 15, 2023•16 min
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, D...
Jun 24, 2023•12 min
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 vari...
Jun 16, 2023•8 min
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 Op...
May 02, 2023•10 min
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 physic...
Apr 11, 2023•14 min
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 techn...
Mar 07, 2023•10 min
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 c...
Feb 09, 2023•15 min
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 Prac...
Jan 10, 2023•11 min
Episode 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...
Dec 21, 2022•12 min
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...
Nov 30, 2022•9 min
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: “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:...
Nov 11, 2022•16 min
In 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 scienc...
Sep 21, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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.
Sep 14, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 1
