Second-year students Melissa Bezner and Tammy Burgunder designed the project to give medical students clinical experience and exposure to disabled children. This year, Team Special Olympics is giving more than 300 youngsters free physicals at public schools. We want to give every disabled child in Baltimore the opportunity to participate in the Special Olympics. Natalie Irvin, Brent Pimentel and Julie Vering, seniors, began developing the service project last summer, during the community medicine rotation of their family practice clerkship. The project has no start-up fees, and family practice faculty supervise the students' care.
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Natalie, Brent and Julie did something big and manageable. FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department .