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September 12th DREAM Research Rounds on Ableism in Medicine

  • 1.  September 12th DREAM Research Rounds on Ableism in Medicine

    Posted 08-26-2023 01:35:00 PM

    Hi Colleagues,

    I'm encouraging you to sign up for this talk and to share with your communities, faculty, and leaders and importantly your students. Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, University of Auckland, and current DocsWithDisabilities Initiative advisory committee member, Dr. Neera Jain joins us to talk about her research.

     Title: The Capability Imperative: Revealing Ableism in Medical Education

     Date: September 12th 6 pm EST (this is to allow for an international audience and student participation)

    If you've never heard Dr. Jain speak about disability inclusion trust us, you are in for a treat! 👏 

    On the heels of her keynote address at 
    Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) she presents the September Disability Research in Academic Medicine (#DREAM) Research Rounds. (For more on DREAM go to this link: https://www.docswithdisabilities.org/dream-consortium).

    The talk will be recorded and posted alongside our other DREAM research rounds here: https://www.docswithdisabilities.org/research-rounds

    Captioning and ASL are always provided and will be included in the recording.
    Register here: 
    https://bit.ly/DREAM_Jain

    This is a an essential talk for all MedEd programs hoping to create #Accessible training for future #DocsWithDisabilities. Be sure to join us!



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    Lisa M. Meeks, PhD, MA
    Associate Professor
    Learning Health Sciences
    Family Medicine
    University of Michigan Medical School
    Executive Director, Docs With Disabilities Initiative
    Host, DocsWithDisabilities Podcast
    Website: https://www.docswithdisabilities.org
    Email: meeksli@med.umich.edu
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