The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) updated the common
core requirements for graduate medical education (GME) programs (effective July 1, 2019) …

Background Graduate medical education (GME) institutions must ensure equal access for
trainees with disabilities through appropriate and reasonable accommodations and policies …

Supporting Clinical Trainees with Disabilities No road map exists to help medical students
with disabilities navigate the wards, and supervisors may challenge students' …

Nearly one-fifth of the US population has a disability, and many of these Americans
experience disparities in the health care they receive. In part, these health care disparities …

The population of people with physical or sensory disabilities is growing, yet they are
underrepresented in the medical and other health professions. At the same time, there is a …

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Efforts to include people with disability as students and practitioners in the health
professions have gained momentum in recent years. However, prevailing technical …

Administrators and faculty in medical, nursing and health science programs are witnessing a
substantial increase in the number of students with disabilities entering their programs …

Purpose Students with disabilities have inequitable access to medical education, despite
widespread attention to their inclusion. Although systemic barriers and their adverse effects …

It has been suggested that “the most dramatic learning can come when it is a peer who is
disabled, rather than a patient.” 1 The sentiment of Shakespeare, Iezzoni, and Groce are …