Expanding Diversity Efforts to Include Learners with Disabilities: Opportunities and Benefits
This activity has been archived and credit is no longer available.
In this presentation, Dr. Lisa Meeks discusses the challenges that patients and learners with disabilities face due to harmful stereotypes, lack of access, and lack of inclusion. She shares trends and best practices to address these barriers to care and education.
This Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research Grand Rounds session took place on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 12:00 P.M. and has been approved for CME and Ethics Credit.
Activity Information
This activity has been archived and credit is no longer available.
Needs Statement
Physicians, residents, fellows, medical students and other healthcare providers across practice areas encounter health care equity issues such as health disparities, social determinants of health, cultural/linguistic competencies, and social justice. The series aims to broaden the awareness of learners in these topic areas provide strategies to address these issues as they arise.
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
- Recognize the barriers to healthcare for patients with disabilities.
- Acknowledge the deficiency in disability-informed patient care.
- Distinguish the disparate health outcomes for patients with disabilities that result from lack of access and information.
- Describe potential pathways for disability-informed healthcare through contact theory.
- Describe trends for disability inclusion across the medical education continuum.
- Apply best practices for disability inclusion in medical education and training.
Target Audience
Professional Categories
- Physicians
- Medical Students
- Fellows
- Residents
- Nurses
- Other Health Professionals
Specialties
Interest Groups
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Accreditation/Credit Designation
Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Baylor College of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity has been designated by Baylor College of Medicine for 1 credit of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.
Activity Director
Term of Approval
June 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. Original release date: June 1, 2021.
Disclosure Policy
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. BCM is committed to sponsoring CE activities that are scientifically based, accurate, current, and objectively presented.
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, BCM has implemented a mechanism requiring everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity (i.e., directors, planning committee members, faculty) to disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests (drug/device companies) and manage/resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. Individuals must disclose to participants the existence or non-existence of financial relationships at the time of the activity or within 24 months prior.
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BCM does not view the existence of financial relationships with commercial interests as implying bias or decreasing the value of a presentation. It is up to participants to determine whether the relationships influence the activity faculty with regard to exposition or conclusions. If at any time during this activity you feel that there has been commercial/promotional bias, notify the Activity Director or Activity Coordinator. Please answer the questions about balance and objectivity in the activity evaluation candidly.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
Disclosures
The following individual(s) has/have reported financial or other relationship(s) with commercial entities whose products/services may relate to the educational content of this activity:
Presenter
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Lisa Meeks, Ph.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan Medical School
Disclosure:
Nothing to disclose.
Activity Director
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Jean L. Raphael, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Disclosure:
Nothing to disclose.
Planning Committee Members
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Toi Blakely Harris, M.D.
Professor and Associate Provost
Baylor College of Medicine
Disclosure:
Nothing to disclose.
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Michelle A. Lopez, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Disclosure:
- Research Support: Merck
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Erik D. Malmberg, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Disclosure:
Nothing to disclose.
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Jean L. Raphael, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Disclosure:
Nothing to disclose.
Health Topics
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