Nethra Ankam
Biographic Data
| ID | 7720934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nethra Ankam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nethra |
| FAMILY NAME | Ankam |
| SIGNATURE | ANKAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thomas Jefferson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1619-0200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Moving Forward Together
As a form of discrimination, ableism impacts access to and the experience of clinical care for patients with disabilities as well as the daily experiences of learners and clinicians with disabilities. Ableist beliefs and practices conflict with physicians’ professional responsibilities and legal obligations to provide care that is nondiscriminatory and accessible. An actionable pedagogical approach within medical education is needed to prepare a …
Twelve tips for including disability education in undergraduate medical education
Disability is a large and growing minority population worldwide. People with disabilities continue to experience health and healthcare disparities. Despite multiple calls to action to provide disability education within undergraduate medical education as a strategy to mitigate ongoing inequities, robust disability education is not routinely provided across medical schools. This article provides twelve tips that any medical school faculty can util…
Intolerance of uncertainty and attitudes towards persons living with disabilities in medical students
Introduction Patients living with a disability experience an illness trajectory that may be uncertain. While navigating clinical uncertainty has been well-researched, health professionals’ intolerance of uncertainty for patients living with disabilities has yet to be explored. We examined the relationship between medical students’ intolerance of uncertainty with their attitudes towards people living with disabilities to better inform curricular e…
The implementation of a required book club for medical students and faculty
More medical schools are incorporating wellness activities and the medical humanities into their curriculum. Finding implementable programming that is feasible and enjoyable is challenging. Both student participants and faculty who might facilitate programs are busy with clinical and educational responsibilities. Book club discussions in general are an activity that bring people together and expose groups to literature. In medical education, info…
Exploring How Case-Based Learning Addresses Disability
Purpose: In response to the health care inequities faced by people with disability laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, Doebrich et al propose the importance of a disability-conscious medical education that engages with critical disability studies (CDS). 1 CDS is an academic field driven by people with disabilities that resists ableism and positions disability as a cultural, social, political, and historical identity arising from human variation. …
Preparing Medical Students for Uncertainty in Clinical Practice
Uncertainty abounds in the clinical environment. Medical students, however, are not explicitly prepared for situations of uncertainty in clinical practice, which can result in students’ anxiety and impact their well-being. To address this gap, we aimed to provide recommendations that would better inform a curriculum that prepares students to acknowledge and navigate uncertainty in clinical practice. We sought to: (1) capture students’ general sel…
Towards a medical school curriculum for uncertainty in clinical practice
Uncertainty abounds in the clinical environment. Medical students, however, are not explicitly prepared for situations of uncertainty in clinical practice, which can cause anxiety and impact well-being. To address this gap, we sought to capture how students felt in various clinical scenarios and identify programs they found helpful as they worked through uncertainty in their clerkships to better inform curriculum that prepares them to acknowledge…
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Preparing Medical Students for Uncertainty in Clinical Practice
Uncertainty abounds in the clinical environment. Medical students, however, are not explicitly prepared for situations of uncertainty in clinical practice, which can result in students’ anxiety and impact their well-being. To address this gap, we aimed to provide recommendations that would better inform a curriculum that prepares students to acknowledge and navigate uncertainty in clinical practice. We sought to: (1) capture students’ general sel…
Towards a medical school curriculum for uncertainty in clinical practice
Uncertainty abounds in the clinical environment. Medical students, however, are not explicitly prepared for situations of uncertainty in clinical practice, which can cause anxiety and impact well-being. To address this gap, we sought to capture how students felt in various clinical scenarios and identify programs they found helpful as they worked through uncertainty in their clerkships to better inform curriculum that prepares them to acknowledge…
Exploring How Case-Based Learning Addresses Disability
Purpose: In response to the health care inequities faced by people with disability laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, Doebrich et al propose the importance of a disability-conscious medical education that engages with critical disability studies (CDS). 1 CDS is an academic field driven by people with disabilities that resists ableism and positions disability as a cultural, social, political, and historical identity arising from human variation. …
Intolerance of uncertainty and attitudes towards persons living with disabilities in medical students
Introduction Patients living with a disability experience an illness trajectory that may be uncertain. While navigating clinical uncertainty has been well-researched, health professionals’ intolerance of uncertainty for patients living with disabilities has yet to be explored. We examined the relationship between medical students’ intolerance of uncertainty with their attitudes towards people living with disabilities to better inform curricular e…
The implementation of a required book club for medical students and faculty
More medical schools are incorporating wellness activities and the medical humanities into their curriculum. Finding implementable programming that is feasible and enjoyable is challenging. Both student participants and faculty who might facilitate programs are busy with clinical and educational responsibilities. Book club discussions in general are an activity that bring people together and expose groups to literature. In medical education, info…
Twelve tips for including disability education in undergraduate medical education
Disability is a large and growing minority population worldwide. People with disabilities continue to experience health and healthcare disparities. Despite multiple calls to action to provide disability education within undergraduate medical education as a strategy to mitigate ongoing inequities, robust disability education is not routinely provided across medical schools. This article provides twelve tips that any medical school faculty can util…
Moving Forward Together
As a form of discrimination, ableism impacts access to and the experience of clinical care for patients with disabilities as well as the daily experiences of learners and clinicians with disabilities. Ableist beliefs and practices conflict with physicians’ professional responsibilities and legal obligations to provide care that is nondiscriminatory and accessible. An actionable pedagogical approach within medical education is needed to prepare a …
Medicine (7 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Curriculum (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (3 works) · Medical model of disability (3 works) · Ableism (2 works)