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Medical Students New To Intellectual Disability
Medical Students New To Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disability is:
- A significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information, to learn new skills (impaired intelligence), with
- A reduced ability to cope independently (impaired social functioning);
- which started before adulthood, with a lasting effect on development.
Intellectual disability does not include all those who have an intellectual or learning difficulty, which is more broadly defined in education legislation.
The above definition is taken from the UK Government White Paper published in 2,000 in 'Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century'.
Please note that throughout the website we use intellectual disability or intellectual disabilities, terms that are increasingly recognized throughout the world. The terms commonly used in the UK are learning disabilities or learning difficulty and, in North America, developmental disability, mental retardation and mental handicap.
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People with Down's Syndrome At All Ages: Some Tips for Family Physicians
- General practitioners will be called upon to provide medical care to people who have Down's syndrome through their lives and in some cases unfamiliarity with the syndrome may compromise the quality of that care.
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Top Ten Tips For Effective Consultation
- It is important to know who has intellectual disabilities in Primary Care. There are ways of identifying someone without embarrassing them. These tips may be helpful from the moment the person with intellectual disabilities contacts the GP. People with intellectual disabilities need to have sufficient time to allow them to speak for themselves.
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Clinical Communication
- The General Medical Council consider effective and sensitive communication to be one of the "essentials of basic clinical method". "Doctors must be good listeners if they are to understand the problems of their patients and they must be able to provide advice and explanations that are comprehensible to patients and their relatives".
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Letter to the Prime Minister
