11 students to date have participated in a Special Olympics volunteer event as part of the study. After completing the event, 10 students reported improved knowledge of healthcare barriers faced by IWCD and improved knowledge of needs of family members of IWCD. 8 students reported improved ability to demonstrate respect to IWCD. 5 students reported improved comfort level in interacting with IWCD. 9 students reported an increased likelihood that they would ask friends and colleagues not to use the word 'retarded' as a negative descriptor (I consider this an important measure of how willing medical students are to advocate for this population in daily life). Students provided qualitative written and verbal feedback that demonstrated that they felt inspired and moved by the events. All students surveyed would like formal teaching in this subject, implying that they think this population will be a small but historically underserved portion of their patient population no matter what residencies they choose to pursue.

Epilepsy affects 1% of youth and is associated with neurocognitive and psychosocial comorbidities, increased risk of mortality, and poor health-related outcomes. Health disparities in children and youth with epilepsy (CYE) have been understudied. A Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium is conducting a scoping review to systematically assess the literature and highlight the gaps in access to clinical care and management of pediatric epilepsy. The methodology for this review is presented. In conducting a peer-reviewed assessment of the scope of health disparities in pediatric epilepsy, we learned that developing the methodology for and conducting a comprehensive scoping review with multiple contributors resulted in a time-intensive process. While there is an evidence to suggest that health disparities do exist in CYE, very few studies have focused on these disparities. Disparity results are often not included in key elements of articles, lending them to be underemphasized and underrecognized. Preliminary conclusions inform several important research considerations.