Intellectual disability health content within medical curriculum: an audit of what our future doctors are taught

BMC Medical Education

Table 2 Discipline areas of medicine and specific topic areas covered within compulsory intellectual disability content

	Schools N	Units N
Discipline Area^a
Paediatrics	9	11
Other^b	6	7
General Practice	4	7
Psychiatry	3	5
Women’s health	2	2
Other specialist medicine^c	1	8
Sexual health	1	1
Emergency Medicine	1	1
Topic Area^d
Clinical assessment skills	9	27
Clinical management skills	9	21
Ethics and legal issues	8	20
Chronic and complex health issues	8	17
Interdisciplinary team work	8	12
Preventative health	7	10
Disability and health care systems	6	20
Human rights issues	6	16

^aSix compulsory units were offered which covered two or more discipline areas
^bIncludes: Disability studies, human development, professional development, societal aspects of intellectual disability
^cIncludes: cardiovascular, endocrinology, genetics, head and neck, musculoskeletal, neurosciences, obstetrics, rehabilitation
^d28 units were offered which covered two or more topic areas
N.B. Data from one school was unavailable

ISSN: 1472-6920