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Medical Schools' Willingness to Accommodate Medical Students with Sensory and Physical Disabilities: Ethical Foundations of a Functional Challenge to "Organic" Technical Standards.

AMA J Ethics

October 2016

Professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, where he is also co-director of the Department of Family Medicine, co-director of the University of Michigan Mixed Methods Research and Scholarship Program, co-editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and founder and director of the Japanese Family Health Program.

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.

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