Accommodating medical school faculty with disabilities.

Reasonable accommodations for medical faculty with disabilities.

An unknown number of medical school faculty have disabilities, and their experiences have generally escaped notice and scrutiny. Although most medical schools offer long-term insurance and extended leaves of absence for disability, relatively few have policies explicitly addressing accommodations for faculty with disabilities as they perform teaching, research, and clinical duties. We discuss a...

Learning from Physicians with Disabilities and Their Patients.

Although progress has been made in diversifying medical school admissions and faculty, this has not extended to physicians with physical disabilities. To improve our understanding of medical students and physicians with physical and sensory disabilities, the authors propose systematically gathering information on the needs and experiences of four groups: physicians who had disabilities before b...

Mr. Peanut goes to court: accommodating an individuals peanut allergy in schools and day care centers under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Underrepresentation of underrepresented minorities in academic medicine: the need to enhance the pipeline and the pipe.

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

Reliabilty and Validity of the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique for Japanese Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Faculty of Medical Science and Welfare Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai, 1 Health Sciences Major, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, 2 Training Center, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Tokorozawa, 3 Research Unit for Nursing, Caring Sciences and Psychology National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Obu, and 4 National Rehabili...