It's Never Too Late To Help Others
Helping others is not only beneficial for those who are helped, but also gives happiness to those who help. Helping others is one way to expand social networks and strengthen relationships with others.
- About MSDCI
Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness unites and empowers medical students through advocacy, mentorship, education, and community building while using our collective power towards advancing the improvement of health care for the disabled community.
- History
MSDCI National is founded by Zainub Dhanani at Stanford University School of Medicine in 2019.
MSDCI National is joined by 10+ institutional chapters over the course of two years. The inaugural “Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine” is initially postponed due to COVID, but virtually attended in June. MSDCI National is one of their sponsors.
MSDCI National holds a resident panel in August 2021 to provide support and information to students with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses applying to residency.
Zainub Dhanani, MSDCI National Director at the time, and Sandy Carpenter, MSDCI National Associate Director at the time, give a presentation in January 2022 to the National Council on Disability (NCD), on MSDCI’s recent advocacy efforts to formally integrate disability training in the standards of accreditation for US medical schools as determined by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
MSDCI National begins the year hosting a Fireside Chat with Dr. Justin Bullock, MD, MPH, a nephrology fellow who has undergone mental health barriers and hopes to create safe environments in medicine for sharing.
Members of MSDCI National leadership -Zainub Dhanani, Ifeoma Ikedionwu, and Nora Newcomb – are awarded the 2024 Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader award to further the mission of MSDCI
- History
Founded in 2019, MSDCI unites and empowers medical students with disability and/or chronic illness through advocacy, mentorship, education, and community building while using our collective power towards advancing the improvement of healthcare for the disabled community. Through partnerships and alliances with disability organizations, disability researchers, and our chapters, we are committed to increasing disability inclusion and representation in healthcare.
MSDCI includes healthcare trainees with disabilities and chronic illnesses as well as their allies. We welcome medical students and allied health professionals of all backgrounds and intersectional identities. We strive to promote social justice and health equity in all of our endeavors.
MSDCI is actively opposed to ableism and prejudice and discrimination of any kind. Members are expected to be respectful, empathetic, and just. All members of MSDCI are responsible for upholding and protecting a respectful space for students with disability and/or chronic illness.
Founded in 2019, MSDCI unites and empowers medical students with disability and/or chronic illness through advocacy, mentorship, education, and community building while using our collective power towards advancing the improvement of healthcare for the disabled community. Through partnerships and alliances with disability organizations, disability researchers, and our chapters, we are committed to increasing disability inclusion and representation in healthcare.
MSDCI includes healthcare trainees with disabilities and chronic illnesses as well as their allies. We welcome medical students and allied health professionals of all backgrounds and intersectional identities. We strive to promote social justice and health equity in all of our endeavors.
MSDCI is actively opposed to ableism and prejudice and discrimination of any kind. Members are expected to be respectful, empathetic, and just. All members of MSDCI are responsible for upholding and protecting a respectful space for students with disability and/or chronic illness.
Founded in 2019, MSDCI unites and empowers medical students with disability and/or chronic illness through advocacy, mentorship, education, and community building while using our collective power towards advancing the improvement of healthcare for the disabled community. Through partnerships and alliances with disability organizations, disability researchers, and our chapters, we are committed to increasing disability inclusion and representation in healthcare.
MSDCI includes healthcare trainees with disabilities and chronic illnesses as well as their allies. We welcome medical students and allied health professionals of all backgrounds and intersectional identities. We strive to promote social justice and health equity in all of our endeavors.
MSDCI is actively opposed to ableism and prejudice and discrimination of any kind. Members are expected to be respectful, empathetic, and just. All members of MSDCI are responsible for upholding and protecting a respectful space for students with disability and/or chronic illness.
Founded in 2019, MSDCI unites and empowers medical students with disability and/or chronic illness through advocacy, mentorship, education, and community building while using our collective power towards advancing the improvement of healthcare for the disabled community. Through partnerships and alliances with disability organizations, disability researchers, and our chapters, we are committed to increasing disability inclusion and representation in healthcare.
MSDCI includes healthcare trainees with disabilities and chronic illnesses as well as their allies. We welcome medical students and allied health professionals of all backgrounds and intersectional identities. We strive to promote social justice and health equity in all of our endeavors.
MSDCI is actively opposed to ableism and prejudice and discrimination of any kind. Members are expected to be respectful, empathetic, and just. All members of MSDCI are responsible for upholding and protecting a respectful space for students with disability and/or chronic illness.
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- MSDCI’s Letter to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education
Dear Liaison Committee on Medical Education,
We write to you urgently as healthcare trainees committed to increasing disability inclusion and representation in allied health education and the practice of medicine itself. We are members of Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI), a national student-led organization for students with disabilities and chronic illness and their allies with chapters in medical and other health professional schools across the country. As the National Council on Disability (NCD) has previously brought to your attention in multiple correspondences (1,2), the lack of training for treating people with disabilities (PWD) in medical education is a significant barrier to quality healthcare for PWD and contributes to the marked health inequities experienced by this demographic (3,4). These disparities have been exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has revealed undercurrents of ableism in medicine and strong bias against PWD among physicians (4). We write to express our concern that ableism and its effects remain
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Helping others is one way that can be done to help others who are in need. Helping others can be done in simple ways.
- A Simple Way to Make a Fairer World
Helping others is one way that can be done to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life of others, and I feel very happy to be able to participate in this activity.
