HEALTH: Assessment tools for measuring students' ability to care for patients with disabilities and preliminary outcomes

2012

Susan M. Havercamp
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Adolescents and adults with physical and developmental disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care in part due to provider negative attitude, limited knowledge, and stated discomfort. In this presentation, a novel comprehensive educational module that is incorporated into a required primary care clerkship is briefly described. Quantitative validated assessment tools that had to be created and adapted for this module are described, and preliminary results of this assessment with more than 250 students to date are reviewed. Our data show that this module favorably improves students? knowledge, attitudes, and comfort with patients with disabilities, especially with patients who have the most severe impairments.

assessment, medical students, training, disparities, health care

Conference presentations and posters presented

Professionals, Students

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