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🍂 FALL NEWSLETTER 🍂
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Summer Newsletter
July 13, 2025 A Note from Co-Directors Summer is here, and we hope you’re staying cool and soaking up some well-earned summertime joy! ...


Rewriting Belonging: Disrupting Ableism in Medical Education Through Poetry
Medical education often operates within rigid structures, valuing uniformity and efficiency over individuality and lived experience. For disabled medical students and doctors, our structures of education perpetuate ableist norms and often silence those that challenge established ideas of what it means to belong in medicine.


Categories of Disability in Medical Education: Understanding Documentation and Accommodations
This Access in Medicine video explores the main categories of disability commonly disclosed in medical education. Designed for Disability Resource Professionals, faculty, and institutional leaders, the video demonstrates:
-Common disability categories seen in health professions education
-Types of documentation students may provide to support accommodation requests
-Examples of accommodations frequently used to promote equitable access


Transcript Accuracy of Premedical Medical School Lectures
This talk explores a critical but often overlooked component of educational accessibility: transcript accuracy in pre-recorded lectures.


The Role of Faculty and Administrators in the Accommodation Process
Designed for faculty and academic administrators, this module provides a clear overview of the faculty role in informing and implementing accommodations for students with disabilities.


Docs With Disabilities Initiative Named to Inaugural Forbes “Accessibility 100” List Honoring Global Leaders in Disability Inclusion
The Docs With Disabilities Initiative (DWDI), a program of the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), is proud to announce its selection to the inaugural Forbes Accessibility 100—a global list honoring the 50 individuals and 50 organizations making the most significant impact on accessibility for people with disabilities.


Announcing the 2025-2026 DRP Academy Cohort
Announcing the 2025-2026 DRP Academy Cohort
DWDI Newsletter Spring 2025
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A Message from Lisa Meeks and Justin Bullock, Co-Directors, Docs With Disabilities Initiative (DWDI)
We write today to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to equity-based work, explicitly grounded in anti-ableism and anti-racism. We...
New Resources for Requesting Accommodations on the USMLE Exams: Guide and Webinar Series
New Resources for Requesting Accommodations on the USMLE and NBME Exams: Your Guide and Webinar Series


How do you feel?
We are excited to announce our next Access In Medicine book club event, where we will review and deconstruct How Do You Feel?


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