Creating Accessible Online Content for Health Professions Education.

In 2021, nearly 6% of learners studying medicine disclosed disabilities, which was more than double that of 2015.1 Learners seek accommodations for visual, hearing, mobility, and learning disabilities, as well as chronic health conditions. Strategies for supporting accessibility align with best practices for audiovisual and instructional design; however, they are not consistently used in online education.

Proactive Approaches for a Wheelchair User in Pediatric Residency: A Case Study for Disability Inclusion.

Objective: Despite encountering many barriers to inclusion, people with disabilities are entering residency training in increasing numbers. However, the increase in representation among people with physical disabilities remains low, and published case studies and accommodations processes for wheelchair users in pediatric residency are absent in the literature. To support the inclusion of residents with physical disabilities in residency, we outline a proactive approach to the accommodations process and inclusion of a resident with a physical disability in pediatric residency.

"We Need a Seismic Shift": Disabled Student Perspectives on Disability Inclusion in U.S. Medical Education.

Purpose: Students with disabilities have inequitable access to medical education, despite widespread attention to their inclusion. Although systemic barriers and their adverse effects on medical student performance are well documented, few studies include disabled students' first-person accounts. Existing first-person accounts are limited by their focus predominantly on students who used accommodations.

Internal Medicine Program Directors' Perceptions About Accommodating Residents with Disabilities: A Qualitative Study.

Background: While 26% of US adults are disabled, only 3.1 to 9.3% of practicing physicians report having a disability.

The Impact of Disability on Medical Care.

The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss the diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.

Responding to the ripple effects of sexual harassment: an emergency management framework.

Sexual harassment in academia is endemic driven by gender-based inequalities and sustained through organizational tolerance, and its impact extends beyond the primary victim(s). Applying principles of emergency management provides a framework for institutions to balance their obligations to the primary victim(s) while also acknowledging the need to restore the well-being and culture of secondary victims.

Informed Inclusion Model: Medical Student Wheelchair User in an Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship.

Students with physical disabilities are underrepresented in medicine, driven in part by ableist beliefs about the ability of individuals with disabilities to complete procedure-based or surgically oriented clerkships, including obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn). There is a growing commitment to disability inclusion by medical and specialty training associations. Yet published case studies and accommodation protocols for medical student wheelchair users navigating an Ob/Gyn clerkship are absent in the literature.

Aspiring to Disability Consciousness in Health Professions Training.

Lack of disability-competent health care contributes to inequitable health outcomes for the largest minoritized population in the world: persons with disabilities. Health care professionals hold implicit and explicit bias against disabled people and report receiving inadequate disability training. While disability competence establishes a baseline standard of care, health professional educators must prepare a disability conscious workforce by challenging ableist assumptions and promoting holistic understanding of persons with disabilities.

Barriers to Disclosure of Disability and Request for Accommodations Among First-Year Resident Physicians in the US.

Importance: Ensuring access to accommodations is critical for resident physicians and their patients. Studies show that a large proportion of medical trainees with disabilities do not request needed accommodations; however, drivers of nonrequests are unknown.

Objective: To assess the frequency of accommodation requests among first-year resident physicians (ie, interns) with disabilities and to identify possible drivers of nonrequest for needed accommodations.

Compassionate Off-Ramps: The Availability of Terminal Master's Degrees in US Medical Schools.

Medical students who underperform or find they are not a "good fit" for medicine have limited options. A terminal master's degree represents an exit alternative that recognizes students' completed coursework and acknowledges their commitment to the medical sciences. Although medical educators have called for the creation of such programs, termed "compassionate off-ramps," the prevalence of degree offerings in US programs is unknown.

AMPK Activation Restores Salivary Function Following Radiation Treatment.

Head and neck cancers represent a significant portion of cancer diagnoses, with head and neck cancer incidence increasing in some parts of the world. Typical treatment of early-stage head and neck cancers includes either surgery or radiotherapy; however, advanced cases often require surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy. Salivary gland damage following radiotherapy leads to severe and chronic hypofunction with decreased salivary output, xerostomia, impaired ability to chew and swallow, increased risk of developing oral mucositis, and malnutrition.