Table 1.

Characteristics of Students with Disabilities and Participating Medical Schools^a

	Students (N=1547)
Student characteristics	No.	Percent
Students receiving accommodations	1512	97.7
Type of disability
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder	522	33.7
Learning disability	333	21.5
Psychological disabilityb	310	20.0
Deaf or hard of hearing	34	2.2
Visual impairment	46	3.0
Mobility disability	39	2.5
Chronic health issue	202	13.1
Other functional impairmentc	61	3.9
School characteristicsd	Schools (N=89)
Public ownership (vs. private ownership)	51	57.3
School region
Central	20	22.5
Northeast	26	29.2
Southern	29	32.6
Western	14	15.7
Financially integrated with parent university (vs. other)e	75	84.3
Community-based school (vs. not)f	14	15.7

^aData are reported for 89 of 91 responding schools (97.8%) that reported complete data for disability type. Gender information (not shown in table) was complete for 86 of 91 responding schools (94.5%); among these schools, 648 (43.3%) students with disabilities were male and 849 were female (56.7%).

^bPsychological disabilities included the following: adjustment disorder, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorder, cognitive disorder, schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder, and other psychological disability.

^cOther functional impairment included non-mental health related disorders that do not fall into one of the prescribed categories of disability, but that result in a functional impairment for the student and render them eligible for accommodations and protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act; an example would be loss of a limb resulting in the need for assistive technology but that does not cause mobility issues or chronic health issues.

^dSchool characteristics are from the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Organizational Characteristics Database.

^eFinancial integration with parent university refers to a medical school for which budget and financing are subject to parent university authorization. This is in comparison to free-standing medical schools or those that are financially autonomous.

^fA community-based medical school relies on community hospitals or clinical facilities to achieve their educational mission rather than a traditional academic medical center hospital and received full accreditation in 1972 or later (after the "community-based" movement in medical education).