--- title: Five Best: Med Schools Can Help Students With Disabilities description: Medical schools can do better for aspiring doctors with disabilities, the satellites of the tomorrow could run on air and more. canonical: https://time.com/5199190/medical-schools-can-do-better-for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-14T16:00:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:00.622Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Med Schools Can Help Students With Disabilities og:description: Medical schools can do better for aspiring doctors with disabilities, the satellites of the tomorrow could run on air and more. og:url: https://time.com/5199190/medical-schools-can-do-better-for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Med Schools Can Help Students With Disabilities twitter:description: Medical schools can do better for aspiring doctors with disabilities, the satellites of the tomorrow could run on air and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Medical Schools Can Do Better for Aspiring Doctors with Disabilities by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 14, 2018 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 14, 2018 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Medical schools can do better for aspiring doctors with disabilities.**](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/13/593213404/for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities-many-medical-schools-come-up-short) By Elana Gordon at _NPR_ **2\.** [**The satellites of the tomorrow could run on air.**](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/03/07/satellites-run-on-air/#.WqiF9X8pCaM) By Bill Andrews in _Discover_ **3\.** [**What if the world doesn’t need Washington anymore?**](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/13/rex-tillerson-out-new-secretary-of-state-pompeo) By Parag Khanna in _Politico_ **4\.** [**Did the perpetrators of a genocide enlist Facebook in their cause?**](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43385677) By the _BBC_ **5\.** [**By sending health workers into the community, this nonprofit made dramatic progress in reducing childhood deaths.**](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2018/03/12/backed-by-a-band-of-philanthropists-nonprofit-makes-dramatic-progress-in-reducing-childhood-deaths/#2ff04343237e) By Kerry A. Dolan at F_orbes_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5199190/medical-schools-can-do-better-for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5199190/medical-schools-can-do-better-for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities/"},"headline":"Medical Schools Can Do Better for Aspiring Doctors with Disabilities","datePublished":"2018-03-14T16:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:00.622Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5199190/medical-schools-can-do-better-for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","facebook","United States","satellites","disabilities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5199190/medical-schools-can-do-better-for-aspiring-doctors-with-disabilities/","name":"Medical Schools Can Do Better for Aspiring Doctors with Disabilities"}}]}] ```