Creating Disability-Competent Medical Students Via Community Outreach |
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| Authors: | Cara Theoret Richa Patel Loka Thangamathesvaran Roshni Shah Sophia Chen Christin Traba |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA;2. Center for Advancing Population Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA;3. Section of Health Systems Research and Policy, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA;1. Department of Endocrinology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China;2. Department of Urology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China;1. Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Medical Director, Disease Control Division, Deputy Commissioner, Westchester County, Department of Health, NY;3. Professor of Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA;4. General Internist, San Diego, CA;5. Clinical Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL;6. Family Physician, Los Angeles, CA;7. Chief Medical Officer, Watts Healthcare Corporation, Los Angeles, CA;8. Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Director, Marion County Public Health Department, Indianapolis, IN;9. Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Division Chief, Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ;1. Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA;2. Union Diagnostics and Clinical Services, Lagos 220005, Nigeria;3. Department of Radiology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 220005, Nigeria;4. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA |
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| Abstract: | IntroductionMedical students often have limited exposure to providing care to physically and cognitively disabled patients. To address this gap, Involvement with Disability Education and Advancement (IDEA) was started in 2015 at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS). The organization provides NJMS students the opportunity to visit a school dedicated to disabled students and lead educational sessions on health topics.Materials and methodsWe conducted a survey study in 2018 to compare comfort levels between IDEA members and non-members in eliciting information from and providing medical attention to nonverbal, cognitively impaired, and physically disabled patients. The survey-based study utilized yes/no questions, and a Likert scale questionnaire to determine IDEA member and non-member comfort levels in working with various disabilities. Statistical analysis was performed using SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1; p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results and discussionA total of 56 responses (19 members, 37 non-members) were analyzed. Regardless of IDEA membership, medical students of all years perceived themselves to have more comfort caring for physically disabled than cognitively impaired or nonverbal patients. IDEA members also recorded higher comfort levels with eliciting information from cognitively impaired patients and lower comfort levels with providing medical attention to physically disabled patients.ImplicationsIDEA members may have increased comfort interacting with cognitively impaired individuals due to their regular experience and lower levels of comfort providing medical attention to physically disabled patients due to awareness of complex problems specific to the population. The current results warrant continued data collection and further evaluation. |
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| Keywords: | Disabilities Medical education Pediatrics Medicine |
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