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BMC Medical Education BioMed Central Research article Open Access A curriculum to teach medical students to care for people with disabilities: development and initial implementation Andrew B Symons*†1, Denise McGuigan†1 and Elie A Akl†2 Address: 1Department of Family Medicine, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA and 2Department of Medicine and Department of Family Medicine, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA Email: Andrew B Symons* - symons@; Denise McGuigan - dpalermo@; Elie A Akl - elieakl@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 30 December 2009 Received: 16 July 2009 Accepted: 30 December 2009 BMC Medical Education 2009, 9:78 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-9-78 This article is available from: /1472-6920/9/78 © 2009 Symons et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Lack of knowledge and skills, and negative attitudes towards patients with disabilities, may adversely affect the services available to this group and negatively affect their health outcomes. The objective of this paper is to describe the development and initial implementation of a curriculum for teaching medical students to care for patients with d