Advocacy

WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) provides comprehensive web accessibility solutions. Explore articles about web accessibility as it intersects with a variety of topics.

These resources are designed to provide broad support to educators in creating accessible learning environments for students.

This timeline attempts to delineate key events around institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, community/independent living, disability rights and disability justice, as they took place in Canada and the United States since the 1800s. 

For some students, the demands of a clinical environment reveal unexpected disability-related issues that might not have required accommodations in the past.

This document has been created to provide instructors with information about accommodating students with disabilities.

Framework and resources to change the design of the learning environment rather than change the learner.

Resources that support equitable, inclusive, accessible teaching and learning.

Serves as a reference for linguistic microaggressions and everyday, casual ableism.

Navigating a career can feel complicated or confusing. For trans and nonbinary people, there can be additional barriers in place which make the process even more complex.

In this conceptualization of health inequity, we have limited the potential for disruptive action to end these enduring patterns.

An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.

These modules provide an introduction to unconscious bias, how it manifests in typical processes and procedures, and how academic units might adopt more inclusive practices by considering these dynamics.

This report provides an accounting of current and future actions to address and dismantle anti-Black racism at Temerty Medicine, with a particular focus on the MD Program and Postgraduate Medical Education.

This video charts the history of antisemitism from its origins until today. It tackles the hard questions about different and changing forms of antisemitism, persistent anti-Jewish stereotypes, the complex racial position of Jews in contemporary America, and the precise line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism.

This article explores how inclusion, diversity and equity should be defined and operationalized within medical education.

This study explores medical students’ perspectives on the key features of ideal supervisor responses to microaggressions targeting clerkship medical students.

This guide outlines specific expectations for how occupational therapists (OTs) can provide services that are culturally safer while upholding the human rights of all clients and the people that OTs work with. These expectations apply to all OTs. Those in macro-level roles, such as leading and teaching, will be especially influential in actioning this work.

This review provides an outline of practical recommendations regarding the supervision and management of struggling learners up to the remediation phase.

This review provides a repertoire of literature-based interventions for teaching/learning, faculty development, and research purposes.

This website offers guidelines, resources, information and ways to report Learner Mistreatment.

Introduces Unity Health's CARE Framework to guide responses to microaggressions and mistreatment in the moment.

This website offers a collection of documents and resources related to Learner Mistreatment.

Learn more about microaggressions and their impact.

This article outlines 6 steps to follow when writing and sharing a land acknowledgement.

Explore articles related to physician health and wellness.

Tips, dos and don'ts for managing your inbox and outbox.

This article explores the concept of self-care as it relates to equity work.

Learn about a simple strategy you can practice today to help when feeling stressed or overwhelmed. By using your five senses, you will be able to increase your awareness of your environment and, in the process, regulate both your emotional and physical reactions.

This video explores the difference between practicing gratitude and comparing oneself to others.