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How Should Medical Schools Respond to Students with Dyslexia?
AMA J Ethics
October 2016
Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity, and a physician-scientist (specializing in developmental behavioral pediatrics), and the author of Overcoming Dyslexia (Knopf, 2003), and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
We examine the dilemmas faced by a medical student with dyslexia who wonders whether he should "out" himself to faculty to receive the accommodations entitled by federal law. We first discuss scientific evidence on dyslexia's prevalence, unexpected nature, and neurobiology. We then examine the experiences of medical students who have revealed their dyslexia to illustrate the point that, far too often, attending physicians who know little about dyslexia can misperceive the motives or behavior of students with dyslexia.
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