Speaker:
Dorothy W. Tolchin, MD, EdM
Director of Disability Education, Harvard Medical School
Director of Medical Student Education for the Department of PM&R,
Harvard Medical School/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/MassGeneral Brigham
Description:
Join us for an engaging webinar with Dr. Dorothy Tolchin, an expert in disability education for healthcare students and clinicians. She will discuss the current landscape of disability education in undergraduate and graduate medical education, share strategies for delivering competency-based stakeholder-driven disability education, and prompt participants to consider opportunities to advance inclusive clinical care, research, and education.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe the need and rationale for including disability education within routine medical education.
- Identify three leading edges in the field of disability-sensitive medical education.
- Discern opportunities to add a disability lens to one’s own teaching, research, and practice.