Care of patients with disabilities: an important and often ignored aspect of family medicine teaching.

(Fam Med 2006;38(1):13-5.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Sweety Jain, MD, of the Sacred Heart Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Allentown, Pa, discusses how office-based teachers can teach learners to interact with and provide compassionate care to patients with disabilities. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www. stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to williamh@bcm. tmc.edu. William Huang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098-3915. 713-798-6271. Fax: 713-798-7789. Submissions should be no longer than 3–4 double-spaced pages. References can be used but are not required. Count each table or figure as one page of text.