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CLASS INFORMATION
Class of 2023
- THIS WEEK - Regalia Distribution: Starting the week of 05/08, Medical Communications is hosting times where graduating members of the class can pick up their regalia for the Graduation Ceremony, outside Given Courtyard S100...
- THIS WEEK - Senior Week - Sign-Up! May 15th to May 19th.
Sign up for Senior Week events is live via University Tickets! All events are free to the class of
2023 and open to any who started out as the class of 2023 or joined the class this past year!
- THIS WEEK - UVM Larner College of Medicine Class of 2023 Honors Night: 05/15, 4-6pm, Main Street Landing, 60 Lake St, Burlington, VT (RSVP required).
- THIS WEEK - Greetings from LCOM Alumni President: Hope to see you at Commencement! "...I am sending this note to encourage you to attend our LCOM ceremony and the UVM Commencement Ceremony in the morning. The morning ceremony is where your degree is conferred to you by President Garimella, so you should be there..."
- THIS WEEK - Commencement Event Safety Communications Updates: If you are working at or attending commencement celebrations and ceremonies, take a moment to review safety communication channels, including the new safety information portal—with an anticipated launch of May 15...
- THIS WEEK - co2023 Sunday Afternoon Ceremony - IMPORTANT INFORMATION: All graduating members of the Class of 2023 who are planning to attend the Larner Class of 2023 Medical Student Ceremony Sunday afternoon, please thoroughly review this important event information...
- Graduating Soon? Congrats! Please don't forget to do the following before dropping mic and dancing off into the sunset...
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Class of 2024
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Class of 2025
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Class of 2026
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WEEKLY UVM Larner Med FYIs
- THIS WEEK (and beyond) - Hills Building & Carrigan Drive Construction Notice: Please review this construction notice impacting Carrigan Drive and Hills/Rowell buildings between 4/17/23-6/9/23...
- The University’s annual heating plant shutdown will occur between *May 21-26 (Sunday-Friday)*: The availability of heat, hot water, steam, air conditioning, cage washing, and autoclaves are impacted by this shutdown. We
highly recommend users power down any equipment connected to building steam the night prior to the building’s scheduled shutdown. Please visit this site to better understand the shutdown’s impact by date by building.
Questions or concerns? Contact UVM SOS.
- UPCOMING - UVM Offices Closed May 29: 05/29, all day.
UVM Offices, including the Office of Medical Student Education, are closed in observance of Memorial Day. Offices will re-open Tuesday, at 8am. Please plan accordingly, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.
- Call for Student Stories! The #DocsWithDisabilities Podcast is currently working on a special project on disability disclosure, and wants to hear from you!...
- Social Justice Coalition (SJC) Newsletter - May! May's Updates & Upcoming Events! SJC wants to make sure to keep you all updated with what is going on! Check out our monthly updates,
and our calendar with upcoming events!
- FEEDBACK WANTED - EdTech Student Advisory Group: We want your feedback on how you use technology in your education...
- Larner Leadership Update - Interim Chair of Family Medicine: We are pleased to announce that Laura W. McCray, M.D., M.C.S.E., will become Acting Chair and then Interim Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, beginning May 15, 2023...
- Larner-VT OME Staffing Updates:
- New Member of the Medical Student Services Team: Please join us in welcoming Calvin Colburn to the OME. Calvin will be working with the Student Services team to provide administrative support to the team and our medical
students. Calvin comes to us with 6 years of previous experience working in customer support, student tutoring and social media admin.
- OME Departure - Jeff Rector: We are sad to announce that Jeff Rector will be leaving the Office of Medical Education. Luckily he will be staying close as he joins the UVM Cancer Center. We would like to thank Jeff
for his contributions to the Clinical Simulation Lab and wish him well with his future endeavors. Jeff's last day was Friday May 12, 2023.
- New Member of Admissions Team: Please join us in welcoming Ellen Tetrick to the Office of Medical Education, as the new Admissions Office Medical Student Admissions Support Coordinator...
- OME Departure - Katarina Khosravi: We are sad to announce that Katarina Khosravi has left OME. Please join us in thanking Katarina for all of her contributions to the Admissions Team, and we wish her well with her future
endeavors. Katarina’s last day was May 5, 2023.
- OME Departure - Kylie Sigrist: We are sad to announce that Kylie Sigrist will be leaving OME. Please join us in thanking Kylie for all of her contributions to OME, as our incredible front desk representative. We wish her
well with her future endeavors. Kylie's last day will be May 18, 2023.
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COMMUNITY WELLNESS
Be sure to review this section for any announcements regarding student wellness! If you ever have any questions about this section, it's postings, or any wellness topics, please do not hesitate to contact our Director of Student Well-being, Dr. Lee Rosen or
reach out to one of your Larner College of Medicine Wellness Committee representatives.
Do you have any suggestions on the ways the Wellness Committee can address the wellbeing needs of the LCOM community? You can provide them anonymously via the Wellness Committee digital suggestion box!
We will monitor responses every few weeks.
THIS WEEK:
- The ADA National Network presents "Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace"*: 05/16 @2pm, Virtual (free; registration required). Learn
what Mental Health First Aid is and how it prepares you to manage mental health challenges. The workshop will provide an over of training, and introduce an action plan for managing mental health challenges.
UPCOMING:
- MURPH Challenge: 05/27, 8-11am, UVM Track, UVM Athletic Campus, Burlington, VT. Join the Military Medicine SIG to to complete the MURPH Challenge to promote comradery, remember the fallen, and encourage healthy living...
- The Poetry Experience*: 05/27, 1-3pm, Fletcher Free Library (Pickering Room), Burlington, VT. Looking for a space to be creative and share poetry? Check out The Poetry Experience at the Fletcher Free Library for a local writing
and sharing space! Check out this link for specific meeting dates...
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LCOMcares - WAYS TO HELP/VOLUNTEER
We are sharing opportunities and needs in the State of Vermont. The University of Vermont has not vetted or researched these opportunities and cannot warrant or recommend one opportunity over another. It is your sole responsibility to thoroughly evaluate
any volunteer organization or opportunity before engaging. Consider the following opportunities independently and carefully after looking into the organization and their safety practices.
UPCOMING:
- VCM Med Tent Volunteering - Come be a medical volunteer for the Vermont City Marathon! 05/28, all day. Vermont’s premiere sporting event is expecting approximately 4200 runners and will need lab personnel, EMTs, Paramedics, ATs, PTs, RNs, PA/NPs, and MD/DOs as well as non-credentialed volunteers for our medical team...
- Volunteers Needed - Abenaki Culture and Wellness Fair: 06/24, 10am-3pm, Swanton Village Green Park. Abenaki Nation will have their Annual Culture and Wellness Fair on 6/24 with Abenaki crafts and stories as well as health and
wellness tables. We’re looking for volunteers, preferably with clinical experience, to help run the event...
ADDITIONAL WAYS TO LCOMcare:
- Looking for chaperones for natural resource camp July 14-16 / will pay*: UVM Extension 4-H in collaboration with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife hosts a Natural Resources Management Academy for youth entering grades 7-10 every
summer. This year the program will take place Friday, July 14 (arrive at 5 pm) through Sunday, July 16 (leave at 1 pm). We are looking for a few adults over 21 to chaperone the event...
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UNIVERSITY OPPORTUNITIES & UPCOMING EVENTS
UVM always has a TON of event opportunities flying around. The list below was hand-picked/designed for our medical student community (also check out the Larner Medical Student Activities Calendar anytime for the latest and greatest list of events). Students may also explore the UVM Bored? Calendar for even more opportunities open to all UVM students...
THIS WEEK:
- MON, May 15:
- TUE, May 16:
- WED, May 17:
- Pediatrics Grand Rounds - “Safety and Efficacy of Proton Pump Inhibitors in Preterm Infants with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease”: 05/17, 8-9am, UVMMC Davis Auditorium / via Zoom.
- MMG Seminar - "What Viruses do to Infect You!” 05/17, 9:30-10:30am, via Zoom.
- RBP Seminar - "New Concepts and Tools to Study Lipid Peroxidation, Ferroptosis and its Inhibition”: 05/17, 11am-12pm, HSRF 300 / via Zoom.
- Dermatology SIG - Melanoma May Speaker: 05/17, 12-1pm, MedEd300.
Join the Dermatology SIG for catered lunch and a session on how to identify benign and malignant skin lesions with our guest speaker Dr. Dennis Beatty.
- UVM Biomedical Engineering Research Conference: 05/17, 12-1pm, HSRF 400.
This interdisciplinary research conference is intended to bring together the rich pool of faculty and students participating in BME-related research here at UVM.
- CVRI Journal Club - "Deciphering the super relaxed state of human β-cardiac myosin and the mode of action of mavacamten from myosin molecules to muscle fibers": 05/17, 12-1pm, HSRF 400.
Lunch provided.
- Pathology Grand Rounds Presentation: 05/17, 1-2pm, HSRF 400 / via Zoom.
- Social Justice Coalition (SJC) Monthly Meeting! 05/17, 5:30-7:30pm, MedEd206 / via Zoom.
SJC is having our May Monthly Meeting May 17th! Please pop in on Zoom or come join us in MedEd 206 as we discuss what we are working on, hear questions, and come up with new projects. Food will be provided!
- THU, May 18:
- VCIID RIP Seminar - "Sera and Monoclonal Antibodies from Children as Serological Tools to Assess the Antigenic Differences between Norovirus GII.17 genetic clusters”: 05/18, 9-10am, HSRF 300.
- Optional Anatomy Review Session: 05/18, 12-1pm, MedEd300.
This module is intended to cover content that is relevant to remaining preclinical coursework, Step 1, and clinical rotations. The topic of this module is the upper limb and brachial plexus anatomy, pathology, and clinical correlations.
- Career Development Workshop - CVRI Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professor - "Integrating Academic Scholarship, Biotech Entrepreneurship and Personal Life in One Lifetime": 05/18, 12-1pm, HSRF 400 (Zoom available on request).
- FRI, May 19:
- Students / Dean Zehle Coffee/Tea/Cocoa Invitation: 05/19, 7:30-8:15am, Given Courtyard - Outside N100.
Come and join Coffee and/or Tea on Dean Zehle! Stop by to have a chat, catch up, share a story; whatever you’d like to talk about – or simply feel free to grab a beverage and head off to start your day!
- May Monthly MSST Meet - Coffee/Tea and Breakfast Yummies: 05/19, 7:30 - 9am, outside the Larner-VT OME Suite (Given Courytard N100).
Join us for a morning social in collaboration with Coffee/Tea with the Dean! Your Medical Student Services Team will be on hand to meet you and answer any questions you have. Light grab & go breakfast items will be available while
supplies last.
- Medicine Grand Rounds - CVRI Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professor - "Myosin, The Exquisite Nanomachine: Basic Mechanisms to Therapies": 05/19, 8-9am, UVMMC Davis Auditorium / Via Zoom.
- VCIID Seminar - "Effective strategies for teaching microbiology and immunology": 05/19, 9-10am, via Zoom.
- You're invited to The Endies! - Larner Medical Student End of Year Banquet & Celebration: 05/19, 6-10pm, ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, 1 College St, Burlington, VT 05401. Medical students attend for free
($10/guest ticket). Join us for a beautiful night of food, beverages, great music, and dancing as we celebrate the class of 2023...
- SAT, May 20 - Sun, May 21: No UVM/UVM Larner Med community events posted for these days.
UPCOMING:
- APPROACHING NOMINATION DEADLINE - 2023 Imbasciani Health Equity Lecture-Speaker Nominations: 05/22 nomination deadline. This lectureship aims to bring experts to the College of Medicine who address topics that prepare future physicians for providing competent medical care and prevention services that are specific to LGBTQ populations...
- VCCBH Seminar - "An Introduction to Olink® Proteomics: New Technology in the Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health" (rescheduled): 05/23, 11am-1pm, HSRF 200 (RSVP requested for lunch count).
- Pediatrics Grand Rounds - “Cases From the Wards”: 05/24, 8-9am, UVMMC Davis Auditorium / via Zoom.
- Gender Equity Education Series - Safety in all its Forms - "Anti-Oppression Facilitation Skills: Removing Barriers to Participation and Disagreement": 05/24, 12-1pm, via Zoom.
- MURPH Challenge: 05/27, 8-11am, UVM Track, UVM Athletic Campus, Burlington, VT. Join the Military Medicine SIG to to complete the MURPH Challenge to promote comradery, remember the fallen, and encourage healthy living...
- Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust Awards Program for Coronary Heart Disease Research: 05/29 pre-proposal deadline.
Applications examining the intersection of coronary heart disease and/or congestive heart failure and COVID-19 or similar viral illnesses are highly encouraged to apply.
- Our Voice - Discussion on Neurodivergence and Disability: 05/31, 12-1pm, UVMMC Davis Auditorium. A new medical narrative series that involves a monthly discussion with people from a certain background, culture, and/ or community sharing their lived experience and their community's interactions with the western health care system...
- Call for Proposals - 2023 UVM-UVMMC Health Equity Summit: 06/16 submission deadline.
The University of Vermont and the University of Vermont Health Network are excited to announce that they are accepting proposals for the 2023 Health Equity Summit, Closing the Margin: Avenues to Health Equity. This regional Summit will take
place Monday, October 30, 2023.
- Summer Statistic Workshops: Random Chats about Data: June 22, Howe Library;
July 20, Dana Health Sciences Library;
August 17, Howe Library - all at noon.UVM Libraries will offer Statistical Software Support and Consulting workshops in June, July and August.
DROP-IN MEETINGS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE:
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STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES (Scholarships, Awards, & Finance FYIs)
Our Medical Student Financial Services begin with prospective students and continue through the curriculum
to commencement. We advise students on various aspects such as financing their medical education, loan debt management matters, and financial wellness. Please do not hesitate to reach out to the Assistant Director of Medical Student Financial Services, Ryan Gates,
with any questions.
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ARTS & PUBLICATION
UPCOMING:
- The Poetry Experience*: 05/27, 1-3pm, Fletcher Free Library (Pickering Room), Burlington, VT. Looking for a space to be creative and share poetry? Check out The Poetry Experience at the Fletcher Free Library for a local writing
and sharing space! Check out this link for specific meeting dates...
- Academic Medicine - Call for Letters to the Editor From Trainees - Mentorship Matters: Submit your letter one week only between June 12 and June 16.
Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for its Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, fellows, and trainees in other health professions on the topic of why mentorship has mattered in your professional journey.
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