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Health and Disability Challenges Postgraduate education

A personal view

Elizabeth Manero Lay member Education and Training Advisory Board

Two sides of a coin

• 1. NHS Providers are not always the most

understanding and non stigmatising places to receive postgraduate education and training

• 2. Patients are not always the most

understanding and non-stigmatising people, especially perhaps when they are anxious about their condition

Patients – the extra challenge?

• Patients are entitled to make certain

assumptions about doctors caring for them

• These gives them confidence that disabled

doctors in training will be able to care for them as well as those in training without a disability

• The NHS, the GMC and education providers have

a responsibility to both the affected doctors in training and the patients whom they care for, to make these assumptions reality.

Assumptions

• This doctor in training has been assessed as able to

fulfill their role

• Doctors will not have been asked to operate in a

way they are unable to do

• Any reasonable adjustments needed both for their

training and their practice, have been made

• They are provided with the support they need to

do the job.

• Someone is responsible for making sure this is so

and continues to be so.