Project Details
Towards Healthcare Parity for Floridians with Disabilities: Teaching Core Competence in Disability to Healthcare Providers
Description
This project will teach core competence in disability to professionals and paraprofessionals in Florida to build the capacity of health care providers to respond to the health care needs of individuals with disabilities. We will work with faculty members in the department of medicine at University of South Florida to enhance their clinical curriculum to provide disability training to 600 students enrolled in the 3rd year of medical school and to measure the growth in knowledge, aptitude, comfort and attitude in providing treatment to individuals with disabilities. In addition, we will disseminate the field-tested core competence in disability curriculum and implementation guide to other interested programs for integration into their clinical training. We also propose to work with the Florida Area Health Education Center Network to provide continuing education training on disability to 500 health care providers over the five years of this project. These training initiatives will expose students to disability issues and build core competence in intellectual, sensory, and physical disabilities.