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Collection II. Episode 12. "ADEPT-CARE: A pilot, student-led initiative to improve care for persons with disabilities via a novel teaching tool"


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Title: ADEPT-CARE: A pilot, student-led initiative to improve care for persons with disabilities via a novel teaching tool

Collection II: Integrating disability into health sciences curricula: implementation, recommendations, and the need for disability content in health sciences education 

Article: “ADEPT-CARE: A pilot, student-led initiative to improve care for persons with disabilities via a novel teaching tool.” (2023)

Authors: Lydia Smeltz, Sandra Carpenter, Lauren Benedetto, Nora Newcomb, Dana Rubenstein, Tonya King, Christopher Lunsford, and Ami L. DeWaters. 2023.

Description: This article describes the student-led development and piloting of a didactic tool intended to assist medical trainees’ and providers’ capability and confidence when interacting with disabled patients in clinical environments. ADEPT-CARE is a mnemonic for which each letter corresponds to a distinct dimension of clinical process or behavior that experts recommend following when interacting with disabled patients. The tool was introduced to a group of first-year medical students. While their feelings of competence in treating disabled patients did not change after a 15-minute asynchronous video training on the ADEPT-CARE protocol–possibly due to the small sample size–the student participants did endorse the utility of the protocol.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2023.101462.

Journal link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1936657423000298

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ww_U_TbTpjPwaovW3E2vQTagK5E04x53/edit

Release: June 2023

 

Keywords:

Disability Education

Disability attitudes

Disability Competency

Healthcare training

Medical training

Care work

Chronic Illness

Disability terminology

Disability studies

Social model

Medical model

Health Sciences

Medical Education

 

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