The Prevalence of Disability Health Training and Residents With Disabilities in Emergency Medicine Residency Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Individuals with disabilities experience significant health care disparities due to a multitude of barriers to effective care, which include a lack of adequate physician training on this topic and negative attitudes of physicians. This results in disparities through inadequate physical examination and diagnostic testing, withholding or inferior treatment, and neglecting preventative care. While much has been published about disability education in undergraduate medical education, little is known about the current state of disability education in emergency medicine (EM) residency programs.

Methods

In 2019, a total of 237 EM residency program directors (PDs) in the United States were surveyed about the actual and desired number of hours of disability health instruct

SUBMITTER: Sapp RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8053000 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature