Debunking 'essential functions': how programs misuse them, ADA rights, and accommodations that allow disabled residents to train effectively.
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Avoid call scheduling pitfalls for disabled residents: get accommodations early, give concrete limits, and inform schedulers to protect health and training.
Explore how duty hour violations harm residents with limitations, increasing health events and risks, evidence, causes, and actionable program fixes.
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Disability Accommodations
Workplace Injury and Illness in Residency: Risk Data for Disabled Trainees
Data-driven review of workplace injury and illness risks for disabled residents in residency: identify hazards, quantify elevated risks, and plan accommodations
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What Happens to My Loans If I Get Disabled During Residency or Early Career?
What happens to student loans if you become disabled during residency? Learn TPD discharge, private loan risks, and practical steps to protect your finances.
Disability Accommodations
The Wrong Way to Talk About Disability During Residency Interviews
Learn how to discuss disability in residency interviews: avoid oversharing, balance limits with competence, and disclose strategically to protect your candidacy.
Disability Accommodations
Program Attrition Among Residents With Documented Disabilities: Trends
Explore program attrition trends among residents with documented disabilities, causes, data gaps, and actionable steps programs can take to improve retention.
Disability Accommodations
Structured Script: How to Tell Your PD You Need New Accommodations
Scripted, stepwise guide for residents to request new disability accommodations from their program director, with templates, lines, and pushback plans.
Disability Accommodations
What Happens if I Can't Meet 'Essential Functions' Even With Support?
If you can't meet essential functions even with reasonable accommodations, learn legal rights, likely outcomes, and next steps for trainees and clinicians.
Disability Accommodations
How Many Trainees Use Disability Accommodations? What the Numbers Show
Data-driven look at disability accommodations for medical trainees: how many students and residents disclose, use supports, and where access fails.