Expanding the numbers of physicians with disabilities would facilitate patient-centered care for those who need similar accommodations.

For reasons of medical ethics, medical schools should embrace functional technical standards that focus on the capabilities of students with disabilities.

Introduction to the October 2016 issue on health professionals with disabilities.

Medical school technical standards should be revised to be more inclusive of applicants with disabilities to diversify the physician workforce.

The meaning of “disability” has shifted with US public policy changes over time. People with disability are protected under civil rights law, and open questions remain about whether and when policy-level interventions and reasonable accommodations create equal opportunity.

A mandatory faculty course on dyslexia is recommended to prevent bias against and misunderstanding of medical students who have this condition.

The student-faculty run Crimson Care Collaborative is a model of team-based patient care that is nonhierarchical and interprofessional.

Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity.

Massachusetts legislation limiting supply of first-time opioid prescriptions creates opportunity for interprofessional collaboration on drug policy.

Interprofessional collaboration is a vital part of medical education. When a medical student resists learning from a nurse-midwife on a rotation, how should an academic medical faculty member respond?