HEALTH - Promoting Positive Attitudes toward Patients with Disability
Project Description:
In overcoming obstacles to true empathy, clear communication, and understanding, we can improve healthcare quality. We hope to produce physicians who are better able and more willing to meet the needs of patients with disabilities. To help us kick off the Lead. Serve. Inspire. curriculum, we propose an innovative project to introduce students in the College of Medicine to Positive Exposure, helping them to recognize prevailing negative attitudes and assumptions about disability while introducing a more accurate and optimistic view of PWD.
Positive Exposure is an innovative arts organization that promotes human dignity for people with differences through creative arts productions and exhibitions. Positive Exposure provides eye-opening multi-media presentations to challenge stigmas and assumptions often associated with PWD. Its director, photographer and renown speaker, Rick Guidotti, is featured in various TEDx conferences available online, and he has traveled the world to spread the innovative messages of Positive Exposure. He has been said not only to change the minds and hearts of audiences, but he has also bolstered the confidence of people who were born with genetic differences. A grand rounds with Rick Guidotti and a gallery exhibition of his photographs would capitalize on the strengths of the Health Promotion Healthcare Parity Program and the Lead. Serve. Inspire. curriculum to promote positive attitudes and quality healthcare for PWD.
Keyword(s):
education, medical students, disabilities, disparities
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees, Continuing Education/Community Training
Area of Emphasis
Health-Related Activities, Other - Cultural Diversity
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities, General Public
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
None
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Single-County
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
