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Question and Answer Session: on Accommodating Students with Disabilities Enrolled in Medical and Health Science Programs

2:00 pm EDT May 21, 2019   |   Organized by: Great Lakes ADA Center

Description

This is a follow-up to the January 15th, 2019 session titled “Accommodating Students with Disabilities Enrolled in Medical and Health Science Programs. There was great interest in the session and a large number of questions were received during and following the Audio Conference. In response, our presenter, Lisa Meeks, will address questions from the January Audio Conference and will respond to questions submitted in advance of this session. If you did not attend the January session please review the archive prior to attending this session.

Questions for Presenters:

  • Can you provide guidance or suggested resources for accommodation requests for students with mental health problems, like depression and anxiety? For example, we've had students request other faculty graders or schedule changes due to anxiety.

  • You have provided some helpful resources regarding best practices in developing technical standards and related processes for medical education programs. Could you provide any guidance or resources for applied healthcare fields (e.g., OT, PT, SLP), whose technical standards might look a bit different?

  • Occupational therapy educational programs are required to facilitate and track student development of professional behaviors. The faculty at my institution are revising our technical standards and could use clarification on the convergence and divergence of technical standards and professional behavior development. Could you offer any guidance on this?

Session Questions

This session is accepting questions from registered users. After you have registered to participate in this session you can submit your questions on your Account Manager page. Please note: the number of questions will be limited and submissions will be closed well before the session starts to provide time to prepare answers.

Registration

  • Required

  • Cost - Free

  • To register please click here - You must have an account and be signed in to complete your registration. For first time users you must create an account. This step is done only once and you will use the same account to register for different sessions throughout the year. After you create an account, you will immediately be able to register for any of our sessions.

  • Continuing Education

    • ACTCP - 1.5 credit hours

    • Certificate of Attendance - 1.5 credit hours




Dr. Lisa Meeks

Dr. Meeks is a researcher with the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Family Medicine and an expert scholar at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Her work is helping shape the future of health science education for students with disabilities. Dr. Meeks served as the principal investigator and lead author on the Association of American Medical Colleges special report: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Action in Medical Education Lived Experiences of Learners and Physicians With Disabilities and is co-founder and current President of the Coalition for Disability Access in Health Science and Medical Education. Meeks' research interests include: Improving access to medical education for learners with disabilities, medical student and resident well-being, disability curriculum in medical education, reducing health care disparities in patients with disabilities, and the performance and trajectory of learners and physicians with disabilities. Her work as been featured recently on NPR, the Washington Post, CNBC, and Slate.

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