Disability Ethics and Justice in Clinical Education

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Fisher Colloquium, Hariri Building Georgetown University


This interprofessional live course provides continuing education to physicians and nurses. Disability Ethics and Justice in Clinical Education brings together disability bioethics, clinical education, and disability justice to examine how healthcare education can prepare learners to recognize and challenge ableism while advancing more ethical, equitable, and person-centered care. Through an innovative combination of simulation, lived experience, and spoken word poetry, the presenters will explore disability as both an ethical and justice issue and invite participants to critically examine the assumptions, language, and practices that shape the care of disabled people. Participants will consider how healthcare and clinical education can function as sites of both oppression and liberation, while learning practical approaches for integrating disability perspectives and lived experience into educational practice.

1. Explain key frameworks for understanding disability, including medical, social, and political models, and distinguish disability rights from disability justice while recognizing their intersections and synergies.
2. Identify how ableism manifests in healthcare and clinical education, including through assumptions about quality of life, agency, language, medicalization, pity, infantilization, and inspiration, as well as its intersection with racism and other systems of oppression.
3. Describe how lived experiences of disability, including the use of standardized patients, community engagement, and creative approaches such as spoken word poetry, can deepen disability consciousness and strengthen clinical education.
4. Analyze healthcare and clinical education as non-neutral spaces that can perpetuate or disrupt oppression, and apply principles of disability ethics and justice to promote more equitable practice.
5. Evaluate the use of simulation and other experiential approaches for developing disability competencies, including strategies for assessing effectiveness and recognizing potential challenges and pitfalls.

This event is complimentary for internal MedStar Health and Georgetown University associates, as well as external nurses. The registration fee for external physicians wishing to claim CE credit is $70.

Only external physicians wishing to claim Continuing Education credit need to register here.

• Internal MedStar Health or Georgetown University attendees: Complimentary

• External Nurses who will claim CE credit: Complimentary

• External Physicians who will claim CE credit: $70

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by MedStar Health and Georgetown University Berkley School of Nursing. MedStar Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation

	This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
	Nurses: This activity is approved for 2.00 ANCC contact hour(s). Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	Physicians: MedStar Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	American Board of Surgery (ABS): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
	American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS): Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s Continuing Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABTS credit.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Physician (2.00 hours), ABS CC (2.00 hours), ABTS CC (2.00 hours), Interprofessional Continuing Education (2.00 hours), Nurse - ANCC (2.00 hours), Other Learner or Non-Physician (2.00 hours)

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MedStar Health adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

Individuals in a position to control the content of this CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships listed below have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

The following Planning Committee members have reported no relevant financial relationships: Adam Visconti, MD, MPH | Roberta Waite, EdD, RN, PMHCNS, ANEF, FADLN, FAAN

The following Speakers have reported no relevant financial relationships: Laura Guidry-Grimes, PhD, HEC-C  | Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD, RN

The following Moderator has reported no relevant financial relationships: Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD