Lisa Meeks:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Introduction Doctors with disabilities exist in small, but measurable numbers. How did they navigate their journey? What were the challenges? What are the benefits to patients and to their peers? What can we learn from their experiences? My name is Lisa Meeks and I am thrilled to bring you the Docs with Disabilities&nbsp;podcast. Join me as I interview Docs, Nurses, Psychologists, OT’s, PT’s, Pharmacists, Dentists, and the list goes on. I’ll also be interviewing the researchers and policy makers that ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession. Today we talk with Dr. Nichole Taylor about what happens when disability is acquired after training and how you can continue to contribute to medicine in a powerful way. Lisa Meeks:&nbsp; I'm so excited, this is our first Docs with Disabilities interview, so we're learning together. I'm thrilled, and as you know, about a year and a half ago I asked if you would be my first interview.&nbsp; I thought that, given your dual roles, you live in two worlds, you live in the UME world and the GME world, and the fact that your disability is a little bit more complicated maybe than others, that you were the perfect person to provide some really well-rounded perspective about what it means to be a doc with a disability, and what it means to work towards greater inclusion of individuals with disabilities in medicine. I'm going to ask you to introduce yourself, and then tell us about your story. Nichole Taylor:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My name is Nichole Taylor, and I am the assistant dean of student affairs at Wake Forest University. I also am the associate residency program director for anesthesiology at Wake Forest. My story was the typical normal story for most med students going through education, and four years of college, and four years of medical school. I did a year of general surgery internship at a pretty rough and tough county hospital, which taught me a lot, and then went on to do my three years of anesthesia residency. If that wasn't enough, I added another year of high-risk OB anesthesia, because I really loved ... I loved patients, and I was ... come from a family of teachers, and it just seemed right for me to land into a big academic center to do my fellowship training.&nbsp; Nichole Taylor:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 2009, I was an attending. I was training residents, I was working with medical students, being in the OR with patients and taking a new learner who was very nervous about making a mistake which was kind of what I lived for, because I enjoyed showing them how to do things safely. I enjoyed watching them grow in that role to confidence. [music] I remember my last case as an anesthesiologist working with Brian, one of my residents, and I started developing this really left-sided heaviness in my arm and leg. Wasn't really sure what it was, and as a typical doctor, didn't really seek a lot of medical attention. Thought it would go away on its own. Just needed another good nights' sleep. That next morning, I woke up, and I was pretty much hemiplegic. It was really difficult to move my left arm and left leg, and so I went to the emergency room. [ambulance sounds] All of these things are going through my head. Like was this a stroke? Was this a brain tumor? What is going on? But something was definitely very serious. It was a different side of medicine than I was accustomed to. It was a different side of medicine than I was accustomed to. After a bunch of tests, an MRI and listening to some of the questions they were asking, I was pretty certain it was multiple sclerosis. Then I was admitted to the hospital. [music] [4:07] Lisa Meeks:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I can't even imagine what that experience had to have been like for you, Like the loss of...

Dr. Nichole Taylor, Assistant Dean of Students Wake Forest School of Medicine

In this three-part series we talk with Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, a Psychiatry resident and researcher at the University of Toronto, and embark on a winding and multi-layered conversation about the barriers in medical education for individuals with disabilities. Within this series, we touch on the unwritten curriculum, student wellness, disability disclosure, and much more from Dr. Stergiopoulos’ perspective as a learner in medical school and residency. Guest Narration by Dr. Joseph Murray

Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA First-Year Psychiatry Resident University of Toronto (Part 1 of 3)

Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA First-Year Psychiatry Resident University of Toronto (Part 2 of 3)

In this three-part series we talk with Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, a Psychiatry resident and researcher at the University of Toronto, and embark on a winding and multi-layered conversation about the barriers in medical education for individuals with disabilities. Within this series, we touch on the unwritten curriculum, student wellness, disability disclosure, and much more from Dr. Stergiopoulos’ perspective as a learner in medical school and residency. Guest Narration by Dr. Joseph Murray &nbsp;

Dr. Erene Stergiopoulos, MD, MA First-Year Psychiatry Resident University of Toronto (Part 3 of 3)

In this podcast Dr. Pratesi discusses her path to becoming an audiologist including her diagnosis, living with and without accommodations and assistive devices, working with disability resources in college, helping others request accommodations in the workplace and finding a way to engage with her passion of theatre and music as a person with hearing loss. Dr. Pratesi thoughtfully reflects on why, as a person with degenerative hearing loss, she makes an empathic and informed audiologist. For episode transcript, go to  MDisability - Transforming Medical Education

Dr. Laura Pratesi, AUD, CCC-A, FAAA, Audiologist, Citrus Hearing Clinic

In this podcast, Dr. Meeks interviews Dr. Marley Doyle, a psychiatrist with a visual disability. Through a recounting of Dr. Doyle’s experiences, they touch on several items including the ethical responsibility to disclose a disability, the difficulties surrounding disclosure, the choice of a specialty that will not impose concerns regarding patient safety, mentorship specific to disability, the critical need for role models, and messaging around disability accommodation. For episode transcript, go to http://bit.ly/mdisability-meded

Dr. Marley Doyle, MD

As a physician-educator and administrative leader with a disability Dr. Nichole Taylor is in a unique position to effect change. In this second part of her interview, Dr. Taylor discusses disclosure, help seeking behavior and the benefit of early identification and accommodation for learners with disabilities. She also discusses how programs who do not have a disability specialist in house can “crowd-source” information about inclusion.

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