Wheelchair service provision education for healthcare professional students, healthcare personnel and educators across low- to high-resourced settings: a scoping review.
Yohali Burrola-MendezSureshkumar KamalakannanPaula W RushtonSelsabil-A BouzianeEdward Mark GiesbrechtRonald Lee KirbyRosemary Joan GowranDavid Francis RusawTomasz TasiemskiMary R GoldbergMarco TofaniJessica P PedersenJonathan L PearlmanPublished in: Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology (2022)
Limited information has been published about the integration of wheelchair content into the curricula of professional rehabilitation programs. Efforts to build international partnerships, improve the quality and currency of training programs and build resources that can assist educators in the integration of wheelchair-related content into professional rehabilitation programs should be prioritized.Implications for RehabilitationThis is the first review that examined and synthesized the current state of wheelchair service provision education for rehabilitation students and personnel across low- to high-income countries.Findings from this review indicate that there is limited information about the integration of wheelchair-related content into professional rehabilitation programs.Efforts to build international partnerships, standardize wheelchair service provision content and evaluation and integrate training into professional rehabilitation programs worldwide should be prioritized.