Collection III. Episode 16. "Ethical and Public Health Considerations for Integrating Physicians with Mental Disability into the Physician Workforce"

Title: Ethical and Public Health Considerations for Integrating Physicians with Mental Disability into the Physician Workforce.  Collection III: Disability in health sciences: the need for and benefits of inclusion Authors: Amalia Sweet, Omar Sultan Haque, and Michael Ashley Stein Description:  Sweet, Haque, and Stein's article explores questions of and argues for increased support and inclusion of physicians with mental disability. Grounding their work in the framework of intersectional social justice, the authors examine medical cultural factors, safety questions, and logistics. They conclude that greater representation of and support for mental disability in medicine will increase the quality and culture of medicine. The article outlines unfair, unnecessary, and discriminatory barriers currently faced by physicians and trainees with disability, to show inclusion and engaged support of physicians and trainees with mental disability is an issue of intersectional social justice. Efforts to increase the diversity of the medical workforce often focus on race and gender, skipping over disability as a dimension of diversity. When disability is considered, the extra stigma and incorrect assumptions surrounding mental disability can mean that people with these disabilities are overlooked or even specifically excluded. Meanwhile, the authors demonstrate that medical education, medical culture, and patient care would benefit from greater numbers of physicians with mental disability and are under-served when these people are excluded from practice or not properly accommodated. Producer: Zoey Martin Lockhart, Lisa Meeks Audio Engineer: Jacob Feeman DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2023.24. Journal link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/abs/ethical-and-public-health-considerations-for-integrating-physicians-with-mental-disability-into-the-physician-workforce/B0F4C6CE019E648081F59AD928A15EF2 Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UPF9WaE9qrQmrmywfd465jZHGd8n1uER3AXlL6BdSdw/edit?usp=sharing   Release: Dec 2023   Keywords: Mental Disability Disability Inclusion Patient Care DSM Psychiatric Illness Mental Illness Mental Health Neurodevelopmental Disability Neurodevelopmental Disorders Learning Disabilities Medical culture Culture of Medicine Diversity in Medicine Disclosure Professionalism Competency Clinicians Clients Ableism Disability Education Disability Attitudes Disability Competency Healthcare Training Medical training Care work Chronic Illness Disability terminology Disability studies Medical model Health Sciences Medical Education