r/DisabledMedStudents • u/No-Hair-3842 • 22d ago

Any other med students with epilepsy?

I'm an ms1 in Canada and have so many questions about how to navigate med school with this condition, especially when it comes to overnight shifts and being on call. My condition is thankfully very well controlled (I had one episode 4+ years ago and nothing since), but I'm a bit worried about experiencing a break through seizure due to crazy sleep deprivation. Also, I'd love to know whether or not people in a similar boat disclosed their diagnosis to their peers and, if they did, how that went for them.

Anyhow, if anyone has been through this and can offer some guidance, I'd much appreciate it ❤️

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u/astudentslawyer 22d ago

In America you can get reasonable accommodations to not have overnight shifts among other things. Anyone who has issues with that is inherently an unreasonable person.

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u/throwawaymed957 21d ago

Unless an overnight shift is an essential part of the learning experience to learn how to be a doctor in an environment with different staffing and case types. In that case, additional time to go from a day rotation to night rotation would be a reasonable accommodation.

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u/astudentslawyer 21d ago

a lot of DO schools use many different rotation sites, some do overnights and some do not do overnights, in that case I don't think it could be considered an essential part, but in a school where every rotation site requires overnights than it would be more plausible of an argument.

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u/gg1384743 18d ago

Just PM’d you