The Beacon Institute’s Teddy Bear Clinic is a free educational workshop for children. This clinic serves two purposes: to help children become more comfortable with visiting medical facilities and teach children about how to describe their illness or injury symptoms to their parents and medical professionals. We often partner with local medical students and professionals to help us facilitate this educational experience in order to provide a meaningful and medically accurate experience.
During our Teddy Bear Clinic, children get the opportunity to:
- dress up like doctors / nurses
- receive a new teddy bear to take through the clinic, the teddy is theirs to keep
- learn about describing symptoms of illnesses or injuries
- measure their height, weight, and temperature
- perform an “x-ray” of their teddy bear
- learn about types of treatments for common symptoms/illnesses (applying a cast, wrapping a bandage, administering a vaccine, etc.)
- learn advice on how to approach getting a “shot” since it is the #1 fear of children that visit a doctor
Parents bringing their children to the Teddy Bear Clinic 
Nursing students assist the children with getting vital signs of their bear 
Students measured the height of their bears 
Children learn to use stethoscopes to listen to their hearts during the Teddy Bear Clinic 
Board Member Ana de Souza takes a photo with nursing students of Trenholm State Community College 
This child’s teddy had a “broken bone” so they are putting a cast on the bear 
Children are paired with a nursing students to check vital signs 
Students measured the weight of their bears 
This child is taking an “X-Ray” of their bear to look for broken bones 
This child is checking his bear’s temperature 
Students wrote the symptoms their bear was experiencing 
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