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ADVANCES IN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages 31-39Publisher
DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.2147/AMEP.S13253
Keywords
medical education; learning disabilities; dyslexia; Asia
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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.
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