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Population Health

Session Name: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians as Disability Educators in Medical Schools: Rationale and Strategies for Success

3 - Disability Education in the United States: Landscape, Approaches, and Barriers

Friday, October 21, 2022

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM ET

Speaker(s)

Leslie Rydberg, MD

Associate Professor
McGaw MC of NW University NW Med Schl/RIC
Chicago, Illinois

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Dr. Rydberg (presenting second of the five faculty presenters) will provide an overview of the landscape of disability education in the U.S., including barriers to inclusion of disability content within medical school curricula and pedagogical approaches to providing content that trains medical students to care for patients with disabilities of all types. She will use an interactive didactic approach, including polling and Q&A.