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A national coalition of medical school disability student groups. Acct expresses opinions of MSDCI National #DocsWithDisabilities #DisabledDocs #MedTwitter

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Medical Student with Disability and Chronic Illness unites and empowers medical students through advocacy, mentorship, education, and community building.

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Help build community for medical trainees with disabilities and chronic illnesses! We’re recruiting physician Pod Leaders to help lead our mentorship groups. Medical students and premeds are also encouraged to apply as mentors and mentees! Apply using the links or QR codes above
Graphic titled “Your Experience Can Make a Difference” recruiting physicians with disabilities or chronic illnesses to become MSDCI Pod Leaders. Pod Leaders guide virtual group sessions for pre-medical and medical students with similar experiences, sharing perspective, offering guidance, and building community. Commitment: at least one virtual pod session per six-month cycle. Benefits include making medicine less isolating, sharing practical guidance, and supporting the next generation with a flexible time commitment. Pre-medical and medical students with disabilities or chronic illnesses can also apply for roles. Questions: mentorship@msdci.org.

ALT Graphic titled “Your Experience Can Make a Difference” recruiting physicians with disabilities or chronic illnesses to become MSDCI Pod Leaders. Pod Leaders guide virtual group sessions for pre-medical and medical students with similar experiences, sharing perspective, offering guidance, and building community. Commitment: at least one virtual pod session per six-month cycle. Benefits include making medicine less isolating, sharing practical guidance, and supporting the next generation with a flexible time commitment. Pre-medical and medical students with disabilities or chronic illnesses can also apply for roles. Questions: [email protected].

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Contribute to knowledge about our #DisabledMedicalStudents community! Take our member's anonymous, online, 15-30 min thesis survey: ⭐️ uic.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo… More info below! #DocsWithDisabilities #DisabledDoctors #MedTwitter
Zoey Martin-Lockhart@Zoey_betaMay 11
Hey all! Please consider sharing your experiences navigating medicine with disability/chronic illness the anonymous survey for my Epidemiology MS thesis (and Anthropology PhD) 💫tinyurl.com/MedDisabilitySur… Details below! 1/3
Recruitment graphic for an anonymous research survey. The headline reads "Share your experiences navigating medicine with a disability or chronic illness." A section titled "The survey" lists four bullets: takes 15–30 minutes; is anonymous, with all questions optional; includes an opt-in drawing for $50 gift cards; approved by the UIC IRB (Protocol #2022-03460-MOD002). A section titled "Eligibility" reads: folks along the MD/DO track with disability/chronic illness (self-identified). At the bottom, a teal "Take the Survey" button shows the link tinyurl.com/MedDisabilitySurvey26, next to a QR code labeled "About me & my research."

ALT Recruitment graphic for an anonymous research survey. The headline reads "Share your experiences navigating medicine with a disability or chronic illness." A section titled "The survey" lists four bullets: takes 15–30 minutes; is anonymous, with all questions optional; includes an opt-in drawing for $50 gift cards; approved by the UIC IRB (Protocol #2022-03460-MOD002). A section titled "Eligibility" reads: folks along the MD/DO track with disability/chronic illness (self-identified). At the bottom, a teal "Take the Survey" button shows the link tinyurl.com/MedDisabilitySurvey26, next to a QR code labeled "About me & my research."

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"We hope that the success of our programs helps show how structured peer support and proactive administrative collaboration are instrumental in fostering a truly inclusive medical school culture." -Adrienne Lodise,BS, MPH, MS3, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
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#MSDCIConference
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"[Our disability care elective] is helping, basically, to address and understand both needs and the existing ableism in clinical practice and also trying to apply communication and care strategies that actually work [...]"
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[...] for patients and take the needs of people with disabilities into account." -Jeffery Truong, MPH, MBS and Alicia Knickerbocker, BS, MS3 students at Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine #MSDCIConference
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“This is not about working harder. It is about Access. Systems. and Safety.” - Kruti Desai, BA, MS3 #MSDCIConference2026
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“Adaptive fitness helps to foster connections for individuals with different experiences and help them seamlessly integrate fitness into daily life”. -Ramya Nissankula, BS, MS3 at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine #MSDCIConference2026
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“We can’t fix the whole system, but we can do our best to ensure that the care offered to patients with disabilities does not exacerbate current inequities.” -Alexandria Kemp, MS3, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo #MSDCIConference2026
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“DM3P is a place where members can see and think through a whole plethora of possible paths. It’s this collective wisdom that serves as a nutrient for support”. -Zoey Martin-Lockhart, MA, PhDc, University of Illinois Chicago #MSDCIConference2026
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“If you have something you’re comfortably publicly disclosing, it’s incredible to share your story and use a structured framework to help develop lasting change.” - Gianna Minuto, B.S. & Joseph Pastore, B.S., MS2s #MSDCIConference2026
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“A disability services office is not an emergency room. The process takes time and is not retroactive. However, there is no true deadline to request equitable access.” - Jen Prosceo, MS, ADACC #MSDCIConference2026
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“Many Deaf women every year get a Pap smear, but there's no universal sign for Pap smear or uterus… It's a big learning curve developing these signs. Not every individual who signs would know words like the supraspinatus but this vocabulary is designed for medical professionals”
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“The quality of health care of the Deaf community is low. Physicians aren’t able to spend the time explaining things."
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"The general problem for physicians is they aren’t taught how to effectively communicate with patients through interpreters.” - Ellie Warren B.S., MS1 #MSDCIConference2026
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“Policy moves slowly, much of it behind the scenes, but there are many opportunities to use your voice, and the impact goes farther than you might think.”
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“Representatives do respond very well to how their policies impact the communities people are a part of. Being able to communicate that to our representatives does a lot more than people think.” - Annika Agrawal, BS, MS2 #MSDCIConference2026
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“Disability has historically been seen as a problem to be solved and cured in medicine… what if we didn’t view disability as a deficit to be filled or a problem to be solved but as a source of pride and connection?"
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"Disability is not inherently negative.” - Arden Parrish, BS, MS1 at University of Michigan School of Medicine #MSDCIConference2026
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