Implementation of a Policy for Accommodations for Physicians With Disabilities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Although physicians with disabilities are underrepresented in medicine, their lived experiences of disability can increase empathy for patients, enrich the learning environment, and improve working conditions. However, they face barriers related to procedures, policies, clinical accommodations, disability and wellness support services, and physical environments as well as cultural barriers that affect their meaningful inclusion and ability to work at their full capacity. Despite national Canadian physician organizations recommending accommodations and inclusive policies and practices, an environmental scan of the top 10 ranked Canadian hospital institutions in April-May 2020 did not identify any existing accommodations policies.The Medical Advisory Committee and senior management team at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) formally endorsed the first position statement in Canada supporting physicians with disabilities in 2021, which led to the establishment of a process to develop and implement an accessibility and accommodations policy for the Department of Medicine (DOM) at TOH. After careful review and an iterative development process, the DOM approved a formal Accessibility and Accommodations Policy in June 2022. The policy ensures physicians are accommodated during the recruitment, interview, and appointment phases. It outlines a process for the development of an accommodation plan, addresses funding for accommodations, protects physicians returning to work following absences due to a disability, and requires exploration of opportunities for physicians to make a meaningful contribution if they cannot practice clinically due to their disability.In this article, the authors discuss the process of developing and implementing the DOM Accessibility and Accommodations Policy, outline the key elements of the policy, and discuss broader implementation of the policy and how they are monitoring its impact. They also discuss the importance and benefits of collecting data on physicians who self-identify as having a disability and, through confidential surveys, focus groups, and interviews, monitoring the impact of accessibility and accommodations policies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.129 | 0.161 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.025 | 0.017 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".