Collection III. Episode 17: 'Being on Both Sides': Canadian Medical Students' Experiences With Disability, the Hidden Curriculum, and Professional Identity Construction."

09/02/2024 16 min
Collection III. Episode 17: 'Being on Both Sides': Canadian Medical Students' Experiences With Disability, the Hidden Curriculum, and Professional Identity Construction."

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Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion This collection features studies and testimonials that  examine the current state of disability representation among health sciences students and professionals and that demonstrate how the presence of disabled healthcare practitioners and trainees benefits both patients and clinicians/trainees. Key works in this emerging literature are gathered in this cluster that includes qualitative studies, the results of quantitative data analyses, and personal testimonials. Title of Featured Article: Being on Both Sides': Canadian Medical Students' Experiences With Disability, the Hidden Curriculum, and Professional Identity Construction Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion Authors: Erene Stergiopoulos, Oshan Fernando, and Maria Athina Martimianakis  Article Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29794527/ Episode Link:  https://bit.ly/DWDI_RR_17   Description: Stergiopoulos', Fernando's, and Martimianakis' research article investigates how medical discourses shape the conceptualizations of the prototypical "good medical student" and "good patient" roles as featuring mutually exclusive characteristics. They explore how disabled medical students' experiences during training and professional identity construction are shaped and hold complexity as students navigate positions in both these roles—as both patients and medical trainees. The authors drew on critical discourse analysis to analyze text and interviews, developing codes informed by academic work on the Hidden Curriculum and professional identity construction. Results show that the dominant portrayals of the "good student" and "good patient" roles, robustly and vividly constructed by medical discourse, are juxtaposing and mutually exclusive.   Producer: Zoey Martin Lockhart, Lisa Meeks Audio Engineer: Jacob Feeman Transcript Release: Feb 2024   Keywords: Medical students; Patient role; Wellbeing; Medical School; Disability Inclusion; Patient Care DSM; Psychiatric Illness; Mental Illness; Mental Health; Disclosure; Ableism; Medical Education  Learning Disabilities; Medical culture; Culture of Medicine; Diversity in Medicine; Disability Education  

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