DocsWithDisabilities Research and Resource Rounds

Aug 15 2023 16 mins 1

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Title of Featured Article: ‘I Can Understand Where They’re Coming From’: How Clinicians’ Disability Experiences Shape Their Interaction With Clients. (2020)

Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion

Authors: Alfiya Battalova, Laura Bulk, Laura Nimmon, Rachelle Hole, Terry Krupa, Michael Lee, Yael Mayer, and Tal Jarus

Description: This is the first of sister-episodes exploring perceptions of disabled clinicians from a range of specialties. The article featured in this episode, 13, draws on the experiences of clinicians and trainees with disabilities via analysis of qualitative interviews. The authors find that clinicians’ insider, experiential knowledge of living with disability or chronic illness—and of navigating health care as a person with disability—facilitates better care to disabled and chronically ill clients for several reasons: improved rapport; deeper listening, understanding, and empathy; and an understanding of barriers to good care that exist inside and outside of healthcare that is grounded in professional and person experience. Precise concordance of diagnosis or experience did not appear to be necessary. This paper suggests that the experiences of disability and chronic illness that motivate professional medical trainees to engage in educational disability advocacy are themselves experiences that provide professionally valuable expertise.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320922193.

Journal link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1049732320922193

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ckx2wzDejugQTRFP88cGaBk4mG1yN7gW/edit

Release: August 2023

Keywords:

Disclosure

Professionalism

Competency

Ableism

Disability Education

Disability Attitudes

Disability Competency