INTS 771DA Intersession: (Dis)ability

Credits: 2
Nearly every single patient presents to our clinics and hospitals with an acute or chronic experience of disability. While most often, clinical management of disease is focused on the explicit aim of reduction or elimination of disability, limited time is spent exploring the assumptions and consequences of this aim. In this course, students will explore our cultural understanding of disability within medicine, map out the outcomes of disease (biological or functional difference) in the context of the societies in which we live, and learn how to engage with disability justice as healthcare professionals. This course will equip students with the knowledge and practical skills to meet the needs of all our patients, inclusive of patients with intersectional identities who experience disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence. Course goals have been adapted from the Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education’s Disability Core Competencies. This course has been co-created by current and past students and faculty with disabilities at OHSU. It is grounded in the principles of disability justice established by Sins Invalid.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit
Also offered as: INTS 771DR