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Twelve tips for including disability education in undergraduate medical education.

Dorothy W TolchinNethra S AnkamLeslie Rydberg
Published in: Medical teacher (2024)
Disability is a large and growing minority population worldwide. People with disabilities continue to experience health and healthcare disparities. Despite multiple calls to action to provide disability education within undergraduate medical education as a strategy to mitigate ongoing inequities, robust disability education is not routinely provided across medical schools. This article provides twelve tips that any medical school faculty can utilize to integrate meaningful disability education within existing core medical education.
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