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Despite experiencing higher rates of physical and mental health conditions compared with the general population, people with intellectual disability face inequitable access to healthcare services. Improving education of healthcare professionals is one way to reduce these inequalities.

To determine how intellectual disability content is taught within Australian nursing schools.

A two-phase audit of Australian nursing curricula content was conducted using an interview and online survey.

Nursing schools Australia-wide providing pre-registration courses.

For Phase 1, course coordinators from 31 nursing schools completed an interview on course structure. Teaching staff from 15 schools in which intellectual disability content was identified completed an online survey for Phase 2.

Methods used to teach intellectual disability content and who taught the content were …