Orozco Almario, Inmaculada ConcepciónCotán, AlmudenaMel Olaizola, Lucía Van DerCortés Vega, María Dolores2024-07-092024-07-092024Orozco Almario, I.C., Cotán, A., Mel Olaizola, L.V.D. y Cortés Vega, M.D. (2024). What strategies did graduates with disabilities in Health Sciences use to persist and not drop out their studies?. Disability & Society, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2368558.https://hdl.handle.net/11441/161222This article analyses the difficulties that 16 graduate with disabilities from 8 Spanish universities in the area of Health Sciences experienced during their academic career. It also shows how they overcame these difficulties, as well as their insight into their own resilience. This qualitative study used semi-structured and individual interviews. The results showed that the difficulties, the strategies to deal with them, and the opinions of the participants about their resilient characteristics are multiple and relate to both external and internal factors. The results reveal that participants’ voices from these Health Sciences degree contain useful strategies for the ­university community to promote the academic success of students with disabilities for the benefit of all students.application/pdf23 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Academic successGraduates with disabilitiesBarriersResilienceHealth sciencesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2368558