Lab/Clinical Accommodations
Equal access for students with disabilities: The guide for health science and professional education
This chapter taken from Equal access for students with disabilities: The guide for health science and professional education provides both an overview of accommodations for didactic, labs, and clinical setting and specific examples of how to accommodate students. This resource may be helpful for faculty who teach/coordinate labs, internships, practicums or other hands-on experiential learning.
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Chapter 5: Accommodations in Didactic, Lab, and Clinical Settings
Meeks, L. M., Serrantino, J., Jain, N. R., Laird, E. P., Booth, A., Clifford, G. C., O'Connor, C., & Thierfeld-Brown, J. (2021). Accommodations in didactic, lab and clinical settings. In Equal access for students with disabilities: The guide for health science and professional education (pp. 101–151). Springer.
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Clinical Accommodations Guide
This guide provides an overview of determining and implementing reasonable accommodations in undergraduate medical education (UME). Built on a foundation of 75 vetted accommodations currently in use at U.S. medical schools, it offers consensus-based language for communicating about accommodations. Additionally, the guide clarifies the process for determining clinical accommodation and supports a deeper understanding of clinical accommodations currently in use.