ProductUpdated on 6 February 2024

Inclusion of topics concerning developmental disabilities into the medical curriculum of future doctors

Johannes Fellinger

Head of the Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language at Hospital St. John of God

Austria

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The Johannes Kepler University, based in Linz, Austria, has designed a curriculum of developmental medicine to train future doctors in the needs and rights of persons with disabilities. Modules such as developmental medicine and determining developmental profiles ensure that doctors have the skillset to provide adequate medical support to persons with disabilities. Between 2014 and 2022 all 600 medical students of the faculty have been taught this new curriculum.

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