Race and Disability Characteristics and Accommodation Disparities on the USMLE Step 1.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Ensuring access to accommodations on high-stakes examinations is crucial for ensuring equal opportunity for medical students with disabilities (MSWD).

Objective

To examine the associations between gender, race and ethnicity, disability type, timing of disability diagnosis, and access to specialized disability resource professionals (DRPs) with accommodation requests and approvals on the US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study of MSWD who graduated between 2020 and 2023 was conducted across 9 US MD-granting medical schools. Variables included deidentified student data (ie, gender, race and ethnicity, disability type, and timing of diagnosis, either before or after matriculation) and presence

SUBMITTER: Nguyen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12485634 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature