Medical Schools' Willingness to Accommodate Medical Students with Sensory and Physical Disabilities: Ethical Foundations of a Functional Challenge to 'Organic' Technical Standards
| Autor: | Alicia R. Ouellette, Ben Case, Michael D. Fetters, Philip Zazove, Michael McKee, Maureen Fausone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Health (social science)
Students Medical education Population Technical standard Disability Evaluation Social Justice Pedagogy Health care ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Humans Disabled Persons School Admission Criteria Justice (ethics) Schools Medical Medical education education.field_of_study Education Medical business.industry Health Policy Beneficence Social Discrimination Social justice Organizational Policy Issues ethics and legal aspects Work (electrical) ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY business Psychology Medical ethics |
| Zdroj: | AMA journal of ethics. 18(10) |
| ISSN: | 2376-6980 |
| Popis: | Students with sensory and physical disabilities are underrepresented in medical schools despite the availability of assistive technologies and accommodations. Unfortunately, many medical schools have adopted restrictive "organic" technical standards based on deficits rather than on the ability to do the work. Compelling ethical considerations of justice and beneficence should prompt change in this arena. Medical schools should instead embrace "functional" technical standards that permit accommodations for disabilities and update their admissions policies to promote applications from qualified students with disabilities. Medical schools thus should focus on what students with disabilities can do, rather than what they cannot do, because these students further diversify the health care profession and improve our ability to care for an expanding population of patients with disabilities. |
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