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Clinical Accommodations and Simulation

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To assist health science education programs in collaborating with students and trainees, this chapter addresses four areas underpinning effective accommodations. First, programs should identify disability resource professionals (DRPs), experts on disability and accommodation laws, and accommodations who can facilitate productive dialogue between the program and student; we provide tools to systematically determine curricular accommodations. Second, we describe techniques for integrating accommodations into a curriculum’s educational formative and summative assessments. Third, healthcare students and professionals with disabilities draw on their expertise to outline specific strategies and accommodations in classroom and clinical contexts, including the operating room and clinical emergencies; these are categorized by disability to facilitate the reader’s rapid reference. Fourth, educators can creatively engage existing clinical simulation labs in the clinical assessment of students with disabilities, determining effective accommodations for the clinical environment, and innovating solutions to clinical barriers for students with disabilities. With these time-tested tools and strategies for identifying and delivering accommodations, drawn directly from expert DRPs and people with disabilities, health science educators can successfully and fully open their programs to people with disabilities as future healthcare professionals.

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  • 28 August 2020

    The book was inadvertently published with an incorrect affiliation of Dr. Lisa M. Meeks in List of Contributors and in chapters 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12. The affiliation is now updated as “Director of MDisability Education” throughout the book proof.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Associate Director Internal Medicine Residency, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Christopher J. Moreland

  2. University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Maureen Fausone

  3. Executive Director, Clinical Simulation Center, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    James Cooke

  4. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

    Christopher McCulloh

  5. School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA

    Maureen Hillier

  6. Cleveland State University, Department of Student Affairs, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Grace C. Clifford

  7. Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Director of MDisability Education, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Lisa M. Meeks

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    Lisa M. Meeks

  2. Solomont School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA

    Leslie Neal-Boylan

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Moreland, C.J. et al. (2020). Clinical Accommodations and Simulation. In: Meeks, L., Neal-Boylan, L. (eds) Disability as Diversity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46187-4_10

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