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Population Health

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

2 - Rationale for Disability Education and Rationale for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians as Disability Educators

Friday, October 21, 2022

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM ET

Speaker(s)

Nethra S. Ankam, MD

Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Dr. Ankam (presenting first of the five faculty presenters) will provide the rationale for explicit disability education for medical students and the rationale for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physicians as advocates for and providers of disability education. She will use an interactive didactic approach, including polls and Q&A.