Supporting medical students with learning disabilities in Asian medical schools

dc.creator	Md. Anwarul Azim Majumder
dc.creator	Sayeeda Rahman
dc.creator	Urban JA D&rsquo;Souza
dc.creator	et al
dc.date	2010-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:20:55Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:20:55Z
dc.identifier	1179-7258
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/baf2116e10984f7e9b51ca26bca7c09b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/20254
dc.description	Md. Anwarul Azim Majumder1, Sayeeda Rahman2, Urban JA D&rsquo;Souza3, Gad Elbeheri4, Khalid Bin Abdulrahman5, M Muzaherul Huq61,2Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, Bradford, UK; 3School of Medicine, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; 4Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching, Kuwait; 5College of Medicine, Al-Imam University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 6Centre for Medical Education (CME), Mohakhali, Dhaka, BangladeshAbstract: Learning disabilities (LDs) represent the largest group of disabilities in higher education (HE) institutes, including medical schools, and the numbers are continuing to rise. The worrying concern is that two-thirds to half of these students with LDs remain undiagnosed when they start their undergraduate education and may even graduate without having their disabilities diagnosed. These students struggle with their academic abilities, receive poor grades and, as a result, develop lower perceptions of their intellectual abilities than do those students without LDs. All these ultimately hamper their professional practice, employment, and career progression. Appropriate and adequate educational policies, provisions, and practices help students to progress satisfactorily. In Asian countries, public and professional awareness about LDs is low, supportive provisions are limited, legislations are inadequate, data are scarce, and equal-opportunity/widening-participation policies are not implemented effectively in the HE sector. This article discusses the issues related to LDs in medical education and draws policy, provision, and practice implications to identify, assess, and support students with LDs in medical schools, particularly in an Asian context.Keywords: medical education, learning disabilities, dyslexia, Asia
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Dove Press
dc.relation	http://www.dovepress.com/supporting-medical-students-with-learning-disabilities-in-asian-medica-a5452
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1179-7258
dc.source	Advances in Medical Education and Practice, Vol 2010, Iss default, Pp 31-39 (2010)
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
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dc.subject	Medicine (General)
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dc.title	Supporting medical students with learning disabilities in Asian medical schools
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