Office of Medical Education

• Are you interested in Temporary Employment Opportunities? Please read here for all details... 
• Medical Student Survey. This survey explores attitudes and intentions towards people experiencing homelessness: The data collected in this survey will be utilized to increase statistical power to perform a factor analysis. The factor analysis will reduce the 100-question survey to a shorter, more user-friendly version which reliably captures the breadth of student attitudes. The survey will be published to allow for more rigorous quantification of student attitude change across education on homelessness. No information will be published regarding the identity of participating medical schools. Student responses will be confidential; the only identifiable information shared will be email addresses, which will be used by UCF's Office of Planning & Knowledge Management for gift card distribution. The study team will not, at any point, be able to access student email information. The University of Central Florida College of Medicine is conducting a research study that aims to assess medical students' attitudes toward people experiencing homelessness. The survey will ultimately help evaluate the impact of various interventions on students' perspectives, helping to improve education on homelessness in medical school and promote compassion amongst medical trainees. It takes 30 minutes or less to complete and is fully confidential. Participants will receive a $5 Amazon gift card from UCF’s Office of Planning and Knowledge Management. Questions can be directed to br238062@ucf.edu.
• Alumni Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12-2pm, Office of Medical Communications Graduating soon? Looking to connect with an alum in your specialty? Come to alumni office hours! Come to alumni office hours! The office of Alumni Relations is here to be a resource to you. Michaela McCarthy, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations 
• Student Reimbursement Process Update: effective immediately.  Change in reimbursement process for students. The student reimbursement form has been updated. Going forward please send completed forms with receipts and backup information in one PDF to the general OME business administration email address as indicated on the form. This email address is monitored by several staff members. 
• New/Revised Policies & Procedures: New/Revised Policies & Procedures Approved by the Medical Curriculum Committee Since March 2024 PLEASE REVIEW - New/revised policies approved by the Medical Curriculum Committee since August 2023 have been summarized for your convenience. The LCOM Medical Student Handbook governs expected student roles and responsibilities. All students should be familiar with the content. Questions about any listed policy? Please contact the office listed under “Policy Oversight.”  
• New procedure for ADA accommodations letters:  Starting next academic year (AY 2025-26, August), accommodations letters issued to medical students by UVM's Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) will be active only for the curricular level they are issued for. A meeting with the OAS representative (Dr. Laura Clemmons) will need to occur to determine eligibility for an upcoming curriculum level. As a reminder, at any point during an academic year medical students can pursue ADA accommodation eligibility or submit new or amended ADA letters to OME/Dr. Moynihan. Reach out to Dr. Laura Clemmons for questions or to proactively schedule appointments in anticipation for upcoming curricular levels.  
• Support Local Small Business: Sanju's Beauty Salon, (55 Patchen Rd, South Burlington) Beauty salon discounts for med students! Support a local small business that many medical students have loved and been utilizing the past few years - Sanju Beauty Salon (55 Patchen Rd, South Burlington). She does eyebrow threading, brow lamination, waxing and facials and is a licensed esthetician. She has been incredibly supportive of us from early medical school and just opened her own studio so it would be wonderful to help get the word out about it so other students can benefit. She is giving discounts to Larner students as well! For more details contact Ashwini Sarathy 
• UVM Community Iftar: 3/28, 7-9PM UVM interfaith Center 400 S. Prospect St. Read More here... 
• Persian New Year Event Nowrouz 1404: 3/30, 6-9PM, Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center. Read More Here... 
• Monthly Student Education Committee (SEC) Meeting: 4/1/25 5:30-7:30PM . Read More Here… 
• Dean Zehle Drop In Meeting: 4/2, 12-1PM These drop-ins are provided for students to connect with the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education. We protect student drop-in sessions to ensure our students are able to discuss any arising issues or concerns, and to ensure your dean is always accessible to you.You can secure a 20-minute slot during the provided drop-in hours, using the Dean for Medical Education drop-ins sign-up. 
• Coffee/Tea with Dean Zehle: 4/4, Given Courtyard. 
• 35th edition of the M&T Bank Vermont City Marathon: 5/25. Case sensitive sign up in the link. Please read here... 
• Vermont City Marathon & Relay Registration: 5/ 25, 7:15AM; 20 Lake St, Burlington, VT 05401. Running SIG will be fully sponsoring three, 5-person relay teams for Vermont City Marathon on Sunday, May 25th. Reach out to Jenna Bourdeau or Matthew O’Mara if you have a team and want the chance to be sponsored! Running SIG will be fully sponsoring three, 5-person relay teams for Vermont City Marathon on Sunday, May 25^th. Read More here… 
• Join the Larner COM Class of 2029 Facebook Group: August 1, 2025 .We’re excited to invite you to the Larner College of Medicine Class of 2029 Facebook group. Read More here... 

• Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds/Thomas Roland Lectureship: April 16 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM HSRF 300 "Palliative Care and Radiation Oncology: From Single Fraction to Spirituality: Speaker Information: Tracy Anne Balboni, MD, MPH, FAAHPM Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School Program Director, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program Vice Chair of Education, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute Director, Skeletal (Bone/Spine) Radiation Oncology Light Refreshments Provided .Whitney Feininger, Admin, Hematology/Oncology Division z
• Family Medicine Grand Rounds with Mariana Castells, MD, PhD- “Mast Cell Disease”: UVM Family Medicine is excited to share that Dr. Mariana Castells will be presenting at Grand Rounds on 3/24/25. Read More here... 
• Pediatrics Grand Rounds: 3/26 , 8-9 am, Hybrid Event  Read More here... For more details contact Penny Marchessault 
• Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital - FREE! Education Program Showcase: 4/10 Spots are filling up fast for the FREE Education Program Showcase on Thursday, April 10th from 2-5pm, taking place on the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. This event will explore our diverse healthcare training programs including: Physician Residency and Fellowships. We welcome all interested students and administrators to attend. To register, please visit this website. For more details, contact Julie Dill.

• Inaugural Emergency Medicine Research Symposium: April 10th from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM in Davis auditorium. EM Research Symposium - Research: Start with Why. In person attendance is highly encouraged, but for those of you who cannot join in person, a Teams link will be provided. Debbie MacDonald Department of Emergency Medicine 
• Application Deadline- CVRI Early Career Advisory Committee:3/31.  The CVRI Board of Directors is requesting applications for new members for its Early Career Advisory Committee, which is tasked with identifying and addressing the needs of our Early Career scientists and involving them in CVRI’s cardiovascular-related activities. 
  • If you are an Early Career scientist (PhD and medical students, postdocs, residents, clinical fellows, and faculty within 4 years of their first appointment) interested or involved in cardiovascular-related research, please consider applying for a position on this committee. 
  • If you know Early Career scientists at UVM/UVM MC, please forward this e-mail to them and encourage them to apply.  
  • Successful applicants will join an active committee involved in CVRI activities and benefit from close interactions with their peers and with senior investigators. For more information, contact CVRI-VT@med.uvm.edu  
• UVM Student Research Conference:4/23; 10:30 am – 5:00 pm; Davis Center | Grand Maple Ballroom. Opportunity to showcase your research. Open to any UVM undergraduate, graduate, or medical student, the Student Research Conference, hosted by the Fellowships, Opportunities, and Undergraduate Research (FOUR) Office, showcases hundreds of students' research all day at the Davis Center. This conference is part of UVM Research Week. For more details contact Renee Stapleton. 
• Conference Funding Available: The Burke Foundation Gift is to support registration and travel costs for a medical student of any year in training interested in attending a conference in addiction medicine, substance use disorders and/or mental health. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a paragraph describing how this will help your future career as well as the name/link of the conference and budget for associated costs. Send this information to Halle.sobel@uvmhealth.org

• Application Deadline The Lucey Prize : 4/4. The prize awarded includes $1500 to each level awardee or their team and will be distributed at a Pediatric Grand Rounds May 28, 2025. Read More Here... 
• 2025 Stanley M. Kaplan Essay Award for medical students: Deadline Oct 1, 2025. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500 and two runners-up will be awarded $250 each. Winners will be announced in November 2025. Read More here... 

• Medical Curriculum Committee Representative Election: Submission Deadline 3/30 Apply to be the Medical Curriculum Committee representative for c/o 2028 Read More Here… 
• FMIG Injection Clinic: 4/2, 5:30-7:00 pm in MedEd100 The Family Medicine SIG will be hosting an Injection Clinic on Wednesday, April 2nd from 5:30-7:00 pm in MedEd100. We will be learning and practicing intradermal, intramuscular, and subcutaneous injection technique with faculty! Pizza and cookies provided. If you’re planning on coming, it would be great if you could RSVP to the SignUp Genius link so we can get an estimate on supplies. Hope to see you there! If you have any questions, feel free to contact FMIG Leaders: Isabel Kay, Jessica Fitzgerald 
• Community Activism at Larner: 3/31, 12pm-1pm, MedEdCenter 200 Sullivan Classroom. Want to learn more about how to get involved in our community? Join us for a Vermont Medical Society Wellness Committee event! Physicians from Vermont Medical Society will lead a discussion and offer support for students feeling overwhelmed by changes in state and national policies, particularly those impacting marginalized communities. We will explore current policy efforts, VMS initiatives, and ways for students to get involved, such as writing resolutions. Ashley Sharma, M1 
• Jumpstart VIC Summer Teaching Assistants Needed: Course Runs July 14th - August 1st, 2025. Two paid positions available to help run TBL sessions in Jumpstart VIC: gain teaching skills and brush up on your basic sciences. We have two openings for rising 2nd year medical students to serve as Teaching Assistants for the 2025 Jumpstart VIC pre-matriculation course. The TA position will encompass 4 weeks beginning July 7th and ending August 1st. Your compensation will be $20 per hour for up to 35 hours per week. Dr. Stephen Everse is the course director and will be your functional supervisor. TAs will help design sessions, work with student small groups, and help run online and in-person TBL sessions. It’s a great way to gain teaching skills and brush up on your basic sciences. Jumpstart TA positions are jointly funded by the Offices of Medical Education and Inclusive Excellence. To apply, please send your resume and a message that describes your interest and qualifications for the position to Dr. Karen Lounsbury, Assistant Dean for Pre-clinical Education.

M2 STUDENTS (co2027)

• M2’s co2027 Required Action! Please take a moment to check that your preferred name, pronoun, and contact information are accurately listed in OASIS. If anything is incorrect, please update it through your myUVM account. All students are expected to enter and maintain current information via their myUVM accounts. This data automatically populates OASIS, regularly overwriting previous information. OASIS user information may only be edited through myUVM. Please ensure that your information is intact and correct as you begin your next curriculum level. For more info contact Office of Medical Education. 
• Foundations Committee Representative Election: Submission Deadline 3/30. Apply to be the Foundations Committee representative for co2027. Read more details here... 
• Evaluations Committee Representative Election: Submission Deadline 3/30. Apply to be the Evaluations Committee Representative for co2027. Read More here... 
• Sign Up for Clerkship Reflective Writing!: 4/11, 2025 Want to reflect on your clerkship year as you go? Sign up for a pilot reflective writing program designed to work with your busy clerkship schedule and to help you with specialty decision making and residency applications! This year, PCR is piloting an optional reflective writing program. It will consist of 8 flexible reflection activities that are low-time commitment and designed to help you process your clerkship experiences. This optional pilot is not a part of the PCR-3 curriculum, and the reflections are not graded or shared with PCR faculty. Ultimately, we hope this program will help with specialty-decision making and residency applications. Please email Dr. Sakshi Jasra and/or Sarah Yang '26 to sign up! 
• DEADLINE Given Locker Clean Out ACTION REQUIRED: Please remember to clean out your Given Lockers before the 03/31/25 deadline. Failure to do so before the deadline will result in a $50 cleaning fee. Please contact Beth Stinebring, the OME Administrative Coordinator, with any questions or concerns. 

M3 STUDENTS (co2026)

• M3’s co2026 Required Action! Please take a moment to check that your preferred name, pronoun, and contact information are accurately listed in OASIS. If anything is incorrect, please update it through your myUVM account. All students are expected to enter and maintain current information via their myUVM accounts. This data automatically populates OASIS, regularly overwriting previous information. OASIS user information may only be edited through myUVM. Please ensure that your information is intact and correct as you begin your next curriculum level. For more info contact Office of Medical Education. 
• Advanced Integration Committee Representative Election: Submission Deadline 3/30. Apply to be the Advanced Integration Committee Representative for co2026. Read More Here... 
• Clerkship Committee Representative Election: Submission Deadline 3/30. Apply to be the Clerkship Committee representative for c/o 2026. Read More here... 
• 2026 Global Health Electives: Application Deadline 4/13. Applications for the Global Health Elective can be submitted online. For more information about the program and Global Health sites, please visit our website: https://www.nuvanceglobalhealth.org/ If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Dilyara Nurkhametova Read More Here... 
• Application Deadline -Mildred Reardon Medical Student Scholarship: 4/25 Open for Applications. Do you dream of becoming a Vermont doctor? The Vermont Medical Society’s Education and Research Foundation (VMSERF) is now accepting applications for the Mildred Reardon scholarship, which awards $10,000 to a University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine current third year student committed to practicing medicine in Vermont. The VMSERF offers this scholarship annually to a third year University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine student. The scholarship is made to a student interested in any specialty, with a preference for specialties in high need in Vermont. * The Committee does consider financial need in selecting a candidate and the scholarship is tuition-linked and is paid directly to the College of Medicine towards tuition. Any student in the Class of 2026 may apply regardless of state of residence or of being a recipient of other scholarships, including the AHEC Scholars Medical Student Incentive Scholarship. Applications are currently open for members of the Larner College of Medicine Class of 2026! Please click on the link for instructions on how to apply. For more info email Colleen Magne, VT Medical Society. 

M4 STUDENTS (co2025)

• Application Deadline Howe Award for Excellence in Surgery: Deadline 03/31. Established Harry Howe, MD '52, this award ($1000) will recognize a student for excellence in the field. To be considered submit an essay (<1000 words) on " The Attributes of an Outstanding Physician" along with a brief personal statement. Submit to Lisa Washburn, Surgery Student Coordinator 
• Class of 2025 students eligible to enroll in EMED 9775 Emergency Medicine Bootcamp: 4/7 Two-week residency preparation course opens to all class of 2025 med students. Read More here.. 
• Complete the Graduation Questionnaire!!: Bonus MEGA Prize Drawing! If we can get to 90% completion of the GQ by Match Day, we will draw a BONUS MEGA Prize winner!! That's a $50 gift card to a restaurant or vendor of the winner's choice! Entering is easy. Just complete the survey and forward a copy of your completion confirmation email to StudentCOMServices@med.uvm.edu.  

Have a great weekend!

Kind regards,
Karen

Karen George, MD, MPH (she/her)
Associate Dean for Students
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science
Larner College of Medicine, Office of Medical Education
University of Vermont
Given Courtyard N-100
89 Beaumont Ave.
Burlington, VT 05405 
karen.george@med.uvm.edu