Elevance Health and AADMD Launch Bold Initiative to Broadly Expand Physician Training on the Care of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
01 11월 2023 - 9:00PM
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- Elevance Health is investing $1.42 million to help make IDD
training mainstream in medical schools across the nation through
the NICHE – Medical project.
- Currently, 73 percent of medical students graduate with no
training on how to care for patients with IDD.
- Elevance Health funds for IDD curriculum have already been
awarded to seven medical schools in 2023, and proposals for 2024 –
2025 academic year funding are currently being accepted.
As part of its ongoing commitment to health equity and medical
workforce development, Elevance Health is investing $1.42 million
to support the National Inclusive Curriculum for Health
Education—Medical (NICHE – Medical) community-engaged approach to
Intellectual and Development Disability (IDD) curriculum by medical
schools across the country.
NICHE—Medical was founded by the American Academy of
Developmental Medicine and Dentistry (AADMD) in 2009 to provide
training to medical students on the care of individuals with IDD.
From 2016 – 2023, 20 U.S. medical schools, or about 10 percent of
the nation’s medical schools, were supported by NICHE – Medical in
developing and implementing IDD curriculum. Elevance Health’s
funding and collaboration with AADMD aims to expand IDD curriculum
implementation to reach 25 percent of U.S. medical schools, since
it has been recognized that when 25 percent or more of medical
schools independently adopt a topic within their curriculum, that
topic is likely to be adopted by all medical schools and become a
new educational standard.
"More than half of medical students have no training in caring
for adults with IDD, and education about children with IDD remains
minimal as well," said Dr. Priya Chandan, NICHE – Medical project
director and clinical associate professor in physical medicine and
rehabilitation at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
“However, Elevance Health’s collaboration and landmark funding is
going to accelerate the inclusion of IDD in medical education,
empowering thousands of future physicians across the nation to
equitably and effectively address the needs of patients who have
IDD.”
The purpose of NICHE – Medical is to provide training to medical
students in the field of developmental medicine – the care of
individuals with IDD across the lifespan. The project impacts
medical students’ attitudes, knowledge and skills to address
underlying ableism and impact how future physicians think about
disability. Through a focus on health equity and the social drivers
of health, the project centers people with IDD. It also fosters
conversation and learning regarding issues faced by other
disability and minoritized populations.
With Elevance Health funding and support, AADMD will disburse
grants to 28 medical schools over the next five years to support
IDD curriculum implementation efforts. This will more than double
the number of medical schools that offer training on serving
patients with IDD. Additionally, dozens of scholarships will be
awarded to develop advanced learners who can champion the concepts
of caring for patients with IDD. These advanced learners will have
the opportunity to participate in immersion training that gives
them insightful, hands-on and focused clinical experiences to
prepare them for future roles as medical school faculty.
“Elevance Health has made a bold commitment to improving the
health of humanity through our whole health approach of advancing
health equity, and we can further this mission through innovative
approaches to enhance primary care quality, address medical risks
and close gaps on comorbidities that are overrepresented among
people with IDD,” said Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., Chief Health Officer
of Elevance Health. “We are proud to stand alongside AADMD in one
of country’s most progressive efforts to advance IDD curriculum and
learning, and to proactively support medical schools and providers
as they usher in a new era of informed and culturally competent
care.”
IDD encompasses hundreds of diagnoses, including autism spectrum
disorder, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome. Approximately 6.5
million people in the U.S. have IDD. These individuals have seen
life expectancy dramatically increase, and the number of children
with autism spectrum disorder continues to skyrocket. Elevance
Health’s investments will empower medical schools to keep pace with
these trends by educating medical students to work with patients
with IDD and addressing the underlying ableism that contributes to
the healthcare disparities faced by patients with IDD.
The first round of Elevance Health-funded NICHE—Medical grants
have been awarded to the following medical schools:
- Albany Medical College (NY)
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of
Medicine at University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- New York Medical College (NY)
- Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine (NJ)
- Stanford Medical School (CA)
- UMass Chan Medical School (MA)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (MD)
On Nov. 1, AADMD released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the
next round of grants that will be awarded for the 2024 – 2025
clinical academic year. To learn more about inclusive curriculum,
NICHE—Medical and funding opportunities, visit
www.aadmd.org/niche.
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ABOUT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND
DENTISTRY (AADMD)
The American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry
(AADMD) is a non-profit, membership organization of
interdisciplinary health professionals — including primary
physicians, medical specialists, dentists, optometrists, nurses and
other clinicians — committed to improving the quality of healthcare
for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).
Since 2002, we have led the effort to improve the quality of
healthcare for people with IDD. To learn more, visit
https://www.aadmd.org/.
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