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On December 2, 2007, first year rehabilitation residents will participate in a one day "Disability Curriculum for Health Professionals" sponsored by the Office of the Provost, New York University. This program is building on the work that the NYU School Of Medicine Disability Curriculum Group has done for the first year medical students, and is supported by the newly created New York University Council for the Study of Disability.
Interdisciplinary educators collaborate with professionals with disabilities; using experiential and multimodality instructional techniques, this curriculum supports effective health care for people with disabilities by creating an opportunity for Rehabilitation Medicine trainees to acknowledge and examine their own attitudes which may interfere with seeing a person as a whole, rather than just seeing their disability, recognize internal resources that allow people with disabilities and their caregivers to lead full and satisfying lives, be able to describe and define the facilitative rather than curative, treatment-focused role of health professionals caring for the people with disabilities, and acquire a body of basic knowledge necessary for provision of meaningful care for people with disabilities.
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