Proposal for a Required Advanced Clerkship in Chronic Disease and Disability for Medical Students

Attitudes of Nurses Toward Children With Disabilities: The Attitudes of Nursing Students Toward Children With Disabilities: An Experimental Design

“…This pilot course was offered at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2008 as part of curriculum restructuring to better prepare medical students to meet the health care needs in the 21 st century. This is only one of a handful of medical schools that require courses on chronic illnesses in this country focused on the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for future medical practitioners [29]. Researchers' results in this research support the premise that there are increasing numbers of children and adults with chronic illnesses and disabilities that future physicians are not prepared to care for appropriately.…”

“…This new curriculum content on disability included an attitudinal pre and post survey to measure the goal of instilling the "appropriate" attitude in students towards medical care for the disabled. The didactic and clinical curriculum spanned four years of medical student's exposure to the needs of the disabled from a patient [29]. This pilot course was offered at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2008 as part of curriculum restructuring to better prepare medical students to meet the health care needs in the 21 st century.…”

Disability Attitudes in Health Care

“…Furthermore, communication with disabled or chronically ill patients is necessary across all medical specialties and is not limited to rehabilitation. 4 As such, medical education has a vital role in developing and strengthening an empathetic and humanistic approach to the care of this patient population for all future physicians.…”

Patients as Teachers, Medical Students as Filmmakers: The Video Slam, A Pilot Study

“…12 At Johns Hopkins, an elective rotation combines simulations, group discussions, and clinical experiences to increase awareness of biases regarding patients with chronic illness, to increase student insight, and to improve team communication. 13 Evaluation of these programs is usually through interviews, focus groups, or questionnaires. Initial results have provided some support that such programs can successfully teach students important approaches to working with chronically ill patients and, in some cases, can enhance empathy and positively affect trainees' approaches to patient care.…”