Integrating Disability Education into the Preclinical Neurology Curriculum

Melanie Zhang; Shane Stone; Gurasees Bajaj; Mallika Patel; Leslie Rydberg

doi:10.1007/s40670-024-02170-1

Integrating Disability Education into the Preclinical Neurology Curriculum

Melanie Zhang, Shane Stone, Gurasees Bajaj, Mallika Patel, Leslie Rydberg^*

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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Abstract

Medical school curricula often lack specific disability educational content. This project, driven by medical students, identified specific disability-centered educational learning points that could be integrated into existing preclinical neurology content as part of an integrated disability curriculum.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1275-1277
Number of pages	3
Journal	Medical Science Educator
Volume	34
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-024-02170-1
State	Published - Dec 2024

Funding

Special thanks to the Disability Advocacy Coalition in Medicine (DAC-Med), Northwestern Chapter; the additional medical students who worked on this project, Agnes Donnelly and Sarah Libfraind, class of 2023; the Feinberg preclinical curriculum directors, Drs. Yusra Cheema and James Walter; and the Neuroscience Module curriculum leaders, Drs. Stephen VanHaerents and Karan Dixit.

Keywords

Disability
Inclusion
Integration
Medical Education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Medicine (miscellaneous)
Education

UN SDGs

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