Nearly three percent of medical students in the United States have a disability, a number far higher than ever anticipated. This finding un...
Nearly three percent of medical students in the United States have a disability, a number far higher than ever anticipated. This finding underlines the need to reduce stigma and improve housing for these soon-to-be doctors.
January 9, 2017
Handicap - such as ADHD, disabilities and mobility problems to get to - maybe more common in medical students in the United States esteem than ever, according to a new report. But the stigma - and housing sometimes too short the needs of students - emphasize the need for further research and interventions to improve the disability, the authors say.
The researchers conducted their published report in the December -. 6 issue of JAMA, interviewed managers of disability of 89 medical schools in the United - States, whose task is to identify the students with disabilities and to help Administrators reported that about three percent of students - more than 1,500 in total - have been identified as having a disability. Previous studies on the subject had been between 0.3 and 0.6 percent of the disability of medical students.
ADHD, learning disabilities and mental disorders were the most common, affecting 33.7, 21.5 and 20 percent of students with disabilities. Mobility, sight, hearing and disabled were less frequent; has been reported in each case by less than 3 percent of respondents with disabilities.
An encouraging 98 percent of students with disabilities were given housing, according to the report, although less than half of the schools (40 percent) aims to help students with disabilities during clinical teaching. While test-taking accommodations (most commonly used by students) may be useful to clinical accommodation, level the playing field for students with disabilities in medical situations in the real world.
Given the stigma of mental and neurological disabilities, the researchers suggest that the rate of disability among medical students can still be reported.
"It is not known how many medical students have disabilities were updated previous estimates and psychological, learning and performance has not been studied in chronic," the authors write . "Given the stigma surrounding mental illness, it is plausible that these disabilities are underrepresented." They also recognize that the results do not extrapolate to other countries in the medical schools.
the high rate of housing but - more to increase the general representation of doctors aspiring disabled - encourages researchers. The high rate of ADHD and learning disorders, in particular, underlines the need to specifically focus on disability and medical students can do, be accommodated in the future.
"The preponderance of students with ADHD, learning disabilities and mental disorders, suggests that they should be included in future research efforts, such as studies, the evaluation adequately accommodated student performance subtypes of disabilities" -they write.
