Clinical placements
- Other support
- Assessments
- Clinical placements
- Avoidance of immuno-suppressed patients.
- Placements arranged close to student's home.
- Car parking.
- Placements with good transport links or which are otherwise easy to access.
- Taxis to placements.
- Rotations in more manageable order.
- Additional coaching and mentoring.
- Opportunities to sit down.
- Additional support for students in finding placements that meet their requirements.
- Buildings made accessible for wheelchair users and others with mobility impairments.
- Checking of lighting and obstacles.
- Alternative learning opportunities where placements cannot be made accessible.
- An electric scooter for getting around a hospital.
- Replacement sets of wheels for entry to the operating theatre.
- Training of work placement providers in disability equality and how to work with disabled students.
- Increased supervisory support.
- Slowing of ward rounds, help in carrying notes.
- Arrangements made to make sure that disabled people can take personal assistants or assistive technology with them where necessary.
- Amplified stethoscopes.
- Compatibility of patient records, x-rays and test results with the individual's software magnification programmes.
- Flexible working hours.
- Adjustments to working hours, for example reduced hours, reduced day time on-call duties, fewer or no night time duties or weekend calls.
- Adjustment made to duties, for example no crash calls for wheelchair users.
- Part-time placements.
- Extra time and time out.
- Time off to fit treatment schedules, therapy and out-patient appointments.
- Placements modified to allow attendance at signing and lip reading classes in the evening.
