Core Competencies on Disability: Guiding Principles and Values
Video: Core Competencies on Disability: Guiding Principles and Values
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Susan Havercamp, PhD
The first roundtable will provide an overview of the Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education. Developed in partnership with people with disabilities, disability experts, health educators, and health care providers, these are the skills and attributes essential to providing quality health care to patients with disabilities.
Learning Objectives
After completing this training, attendees will:
- Recognize and describe the health disparities that exist for disadvantaged groups, including people with disabilities.
- Tell how Americans with disabilities experience barriers to routine clinical and preventive services and public health and wellness initiatives.
- Summarize how inadequate knowledge and limited skills in diagnosing, treating, and providing care to people with disabilities play a role in perpetuating health care inequalities for this population.
- Identify how the Core Competencies define standards for disability training to improve health care for people with disabilities.
- List some of the ways health care professionals may underestimate the capabilities, health, and quality of life experienced by people with disabilities.
- Analyze how values held by healthcare providers impact high quality healthcare for people with disabilities.
This event will be offered in English with ASL interpretation and live transcription.