The learning-disabled medical student.
Developmental pediatricians are being consulted by medical school promotion committees with regard to the course of action to be taken with learning-disabled medical students experiencing academic difficulties. Faculty attitude, a difficulty understanding the nature of learning disabilities, appears to be a major contributor to poor medical school performance on the part of learning-disabled adults. Utilizing the sequential-simultaneous information processing model as a simplified introduction to learning disability patterns, the authors argue that recommending intensive remediation of rote spelling and writing skills in students engaged in graduate education represents both a waste of time and a further emotional trauma to these young professionals.
Accardo
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Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri.
Haake
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Whitman
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B
D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*