Comments on: Medical student’s dyslexia battle with exam MCQs http://medicaleducator.co.uk/medical-students-dyslexia-battle-with-exam-mcqs.html Medical students - get help passing and revise for your medical student exams with our multi choice questions (MCQs/EMQs), videos, podcasts and downloads. Free resources give it a trial! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: James B http://medicaleducator.co.uk/medical-students-dyslexia-battle-with-exam-mcqs.html/comment-page-1#comment-2 James B Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:35:23 +0000 http://medicaleducator.co.uk/blog/?p=3#comment-2 This was posted by one of our administrators: I think this represents quite a difficult issue. One of the challenges facing doctors is part of the "real world" testing: if people struggle with words, figures and phrases in terms of medication dosing and administration this potentially leads to serious health risks. Imagine the consequences of administering adrenaline either by the wrong route (e.g. IV instead of IM in a given clinical situation) or misreading a dose when checking a patients medication. Clearly the balance between... 1.) Accommodating disability and 2.) Fitness to practice ...is a very fine line This was posted by one of our administrators:
I think this represents quite a difficult issue. One of the challenges facing doctors is part of the “real world” testing: if people struggle with words, figures and phrases in terms of medication dosing and administration this potentially leads to serious health risks.

Imagine the consequences of administering adrenaline either by the wrong route (e.g. IV instead of IM in a given clinical situation) or misreading a dose when checking a patients medication. Clearly the balance between…
1.) Accommodating disability and
2.) Fitness to practice
…is a very fine line

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