Medical education and disability studies.
The biomedicalist conceptualization of disablement as a personal medical tragedy has been criticized by disability studies scholars for discounting the difference between disability and impairment and the ways disability is produced by socio-environmental factors. This paper discusses prospects for partnerships between disability studies teaching/research and medical education; addresses some of the themes around the necessity of critical disability studies training for medical students; and examines a selection of issues and themes that have arisen from disability education courses within medical schools globally. The paper concludes that providing there is a commitment from senior management, universities are well positioned to apply both vertical and horizontal approaches to teaching disability studies to medical students.
Campbell
Fiona Kumari
FK
School of Human Services & Social Work, Logan Campus University Drive, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Qld 4131, Australia. Fiona.Campbell@griffith.edu.au
D003479:Curriculum; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000193:education*