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Changing Attitudes: A Teaching Initiative in the Medical School
Author(s) -
May David,
Phillips Stan,
Miller Jenny,
Linton Pam,
Forbes Jim,
Culross Grace
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1994.tb00128.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , task (project management) , psychology , medical education , medical school , learning disability , pedagogy , medicine , developmental psychology , political science , management , law , economics
In this paper we describe an innovatory teaching programme for medical students which is designed to promote more positive images of people with learning disabilities (L.D.). The programme involves small groups of medical students working in partnership with equal numbers of people with L.D. on a specific task of mutual interest. In educational terms, the programme was highly successful; students enjoyed the experience and found it both interesting and relevant to their medical studies. At the end of the programme students had acquired a greater respect for the abilities of people with L.D. and were more positively inclined towards them and their rights as citizens. However, the evidence also suggested that they continued to regard people with L.D. as somehow qualitatively different from non‐handicapped people — less able, more dependent and child‐like.