RESOURCES
Below is a list of compiled resources pertaining to students with disabilities, patients with disabilities,
disability justice, and disability narratives.
These resources are continually updated by MSDCI members.
If you would like to add a resource, please contact msdcinational@gmail.com or reach out directly to the MSDCI Director of Advocacy and Education.
disability justice, and disability narratives.
These resources are continually updated by MSDCI members.
If you would like to add a resource, please contact msdcinational@gmail.com or reach out directly to the MSDCI Director of Advocacy and Education.
Students With Disabilities
- MSDCI’s Guide to Student Accommodations in Medical School
- MSDCI’s Guide to Creating a Chapter (on team drive)
- Disability as Diversity: A Guidebook for Inclusion in Medicine, Nursing, and the Health Professions. Editors: Lisa M. Meeks & Leslie Neal-Boylan. Published 2020.
- Equal Access for Students with Disabilities: The Guide for Health Science and Professional Education. Lisa M. Meeks, Neera R. Jain, & Elisa P. Laird. Published 2021.
- Docs with Disabilities Podcast, University of Michigan / Stanford / University of Colorado
- Docs with Disability and Chronic Illness Panel, University of Michigan
- Both Sides of the Stethoscope Podcast
- Confronting the Invisible. Olivia Larner. TedX.
- Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses. Non-profit organization serving Deaf and hard-of-hearing healthcare professionals and students.
- Society for Healthcare Professionals with Disabilities. Online supportive community, provide disability-related resources and tools for healthcare professionals.
- Society for Physicians with Disabilities. Group within the Society for Healthcare Professionals with Disabilities. Online supportive community.
Twitter:
- @MSDCINational: Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness
- @Disabled_Docs: Future Docs with Disabilities
- @dac_med: Disability Advocacy Coalition in Medicine
- @PreMedDisabledS: Pre-Medical Disabled Student Association
- @amphltweets: AMPHL
- @HsmCoalition: Coalition on Disability Access in Health Science Education
- @DocsWith: DocsWithDisabilities Initiative
- @bsotstethoscope: Both Sides Of The Stethoscope
- AMA Disability Issues Committee
- Disability Consciousness Series: Regular virtual meetings on disability-consciousness led by pediatric physiatrist at Duke. Contact christopher.d.lunsford@duke.edu.
Patients With Disabilities
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Learn about Disability and Health.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: COVID-19 information and resources: People with disabilities.
- World Health Organization: Disability.
- Healthy People 2030: People With Disabilities.
- World Institute on Disability: Access to Medical Care: Training Tools for Health Care Providers, Disabled Patients, and Advocates on Culturally Competent Care and Compliance with Disability Law. Published 2011.
- Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education (ADCHE). Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education. Published 2019.
- National Council on Disability. Website.
- The Institute for Exceptional Care: National Roadmap for Disability-Inclusive Healthcare. Website
- Major reports
- Office of the Surgeon General. Call to Action. Published 2005.
- Institute of Medicine. The Future of Disability in America. Published 2007.
- National Council on Disability: The Current State of Health Care for People with Disabilities. Published 2009.
- Health disparities
- People with Disabilities as an Unrecognized Health Disparity Demographic. Authors: Gloria L. Krahn, Deborah Klein Walker, & Rosaly Correa-De-Araujo. Published 2015.
- Medical equipment
- National Council on Disability: Enforceable Accessible Medical Equipment Standards: A Necessary Means to Address the Health Care Needs of People with Mobility Disabilities. Published 2021.
- Use of Accessible Weight Scales and Examination Tables/Chairs for Patients with Significant Mobility Limitations by Physicians Nationwide. Authors: Lisa I. Iezzoni et al. Published 2021.
- Access to Subspecialty Care for Patients with Mobility Impairment: A survey. Authors: Tara Lagu et al.Published 2013.
- Ensuring Access to Health Care for Patients with Disabilities. Authors: Tara Lagu, Christine Griffin, & Peter K. Lindenauer. Published 2015.
- Physician Attitudes
- Physicians’ Perceptions of People with Disability and their Health Care. Authors: Iezzoni et al. Published 2021.
- US Physicians’ Knowledge About the Americans with Disabilities Act and Accommodation of Patients with Disability. Authors: Iezzoni et al. Published 2022.
- More Than Ramps: A Guide to Improving Healthcare Quality and Access for People with Disabilities. Authors: Lisa I. Iezzoni & Bonnie L. O’Day. Published 2006.
- May be accessed via your institution here.
Disability Justice
- Anti-Ableist Medical Education: Meeting the Challenges. Authors: Liz Bowen, Emily Cleveland-Manchanda, Peppar EP Cyr, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Susan Havercamp, Kristi Kirschner, Rebecca Kronk, Lisa M. Meeks, Peter Poullos, Zoie Clarise Sheets, Dorothy W. Tolchin, Stephanie Pham Van, Silvia Yee, and Erike Parens. Published 2024.
- COVID-19 and the need for disability-conscious medical education, training, and practice. Authors: Adrienne Doebrich, Marion Quirici, and Christopher Lunsford. Published 2020.
- National Council on Disability. Quality Adjusted Life Years and the Devaluation of Life with Disability. Part of the Bioethics and Disability Series. Published 2019.
- Talila A. Lewis.Blog. Working Definition of Ableism.
- Leaving Evidence. Mia Mingus Blog. Select posts.
- I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. Stella Young, Ted Talk. YouTube.
- Our Fight For Disability Rights – and Why We’re Not Done Yet. Judith Heumann. Ted. YouTube.
- Disability and Work: Let’s Stop Wasting Talent. Hannah Barham-Brown. TedXExeter. YouTube.
- How Much Do You Know About Intellectual Disabilities? Matthew Williams. TedXVancouver. YouTube.
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Directors: James Lebrecht & Nicole Newnham. Netflix. Released 2020.
- A disability history of the United States. Author: Kim E. Nielsen. Published 2012.
- Enabling Acts: The hidden story of how the Americans with Disabilities Act gave the largest US minority its rights. Author: Lennard J. Davis. Published 2015.
- Being Heumann: An unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist. Author: Judith Heumann. Published 2020.
Disability Narratives
- Special Books for Special Kids: Normalizing the Diversity of the Human Condition. YouTube.
- Squirmy & Grubs. YouTube.
- Disability Not Invisibility: My experience with Chronic Illness. Vicky Potter. TEDxFSU.
- My Learning Disability: A Love Story. Chandni Kazi. TEDxBerkeley
- Access is Love podcast. Alice Wong.
- Disability Visibility Project.
- Positive Exposure.
- Harvard Medical School “Unconditional” publications. Platform for digital publications dedicated to increasing visibility, representation, and advocacy for students who have experienced or are currently living with illnesses, health conditions, or disabilities.
- Disability Visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century. Author: Alice Wong. Published 2020.
- Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally. Author: Emily Ladau. Published 2021.
- Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law. Author: Haben Girma. Published 2019.
- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. Author: Sunaura Taylor. Published 2017.
- Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Author: Eli Clare. Published 2017.
- A Body, Undone: Living on after great pain. Author: Christina Crosby. Published 2016.
- Feminist Disability Studies. Author: Kim Q. Hall. Published 2011.
- Too Late to Die Young: Nearly true tales from a life. Author: Harriet McBryde Johnson. Published 2005.
- Sight Unseen. Author: Georgina Kleege. Published 1999.
- Waist High in the World: A life among the non-disabled. Author: Nancy Mairs. Published 1996.