| Unit name | Teaching Disability Equality in Clinical Practice |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MEDIM0215 |
| Credit points | 15 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Greenwood |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Medicine |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
All health professionals come into contact with disabled people in their practice, but few have had the opportunity to learn appropriate ways of relating to and dealing with disabled people in the professional context. Most training for health professionals does not include integrated instruction on disability issues. An audit of the meaning of disability amongst medical course organizers, for instance, revealed that very few are familiar with the Social model of disability and that there is no consistency in how disability is taught throughout the medical undergraduate programme.
This course will allow participants to examine their own, the institutional and societal views of disability; gain a basic understanding of the Disability Discrimination Act and how this applies to Healthcare and to examine their own teaching practices. Clinical educators will then understand the need for Disability Equality in clinical practice, so that health professionals can be taught with a consistent philosophy and language throughout their whole curriculum.
Many of the tutors will be disabled and therefore will have their own unique expertise to bring.
The Unit will develop students’ ability to:
This is a 15 Credit Unit and therefore requires 150 hours work to be associated with it. This will be achieved as follows: 15 hours contact time during the two study days plus 135 hours study to include background reading, researching and writing the assignment, and any 1:1 tutorial time with tutors.
The principle teaching and learning methods will include the following:
An assignment comprising 3,000 words.
Provisional deadlines: within 3 months of the first study day for a Unit.
The assignment for this Unit will be a work-based project based on recognising barriers to Disability Equality within their own workplace and teaching, and reflecting on ways to overcome them. The student will critically appraise practices within their own area of work, drawing on important issues from the education literature and showing evidence of their own reflection on these issues as they occur in professional life. The assessment product will be in the form of either:
