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Connecting the Docs: Creating a Network Department

November 11, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz

Many people note that a silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it forced people to collaborate remotely, accelerating innovations in teamwork and problem-solving. This is evident within the UVM Children’s Hospital and the pediatrics department at the Larner College of Medicine.
Medical Students’ Project Improves Rural Health Care Access

November 10, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz

During their first year of medical school, Class of 2025 medical students Lindsay Aldrich and Richard Vuong won a competitive fellowship from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to develop an idea: They envisioned bringing the doctor’s office to new mothers and infants in rural regions of Vermont via a mobile health clinic.
Larner Medical Students Go Global

November 8, 2024 by Margie Brenner

Since the Global Health Program’s inception, more than 120 medical students from the Larner College of Medicine have participated—most recently: Uganda (Sarah Chiavacci ’27, Annie Lindholm ’27, and Ben Sebuufu ’27); Vietnam (Martin Briche ’27, Max Pendleton ’27, Curtis Plante ’27, and Eunice Suberu ’27); and the Dominican Republic (Arya Kale ’27 and Estefania “Stefa” Obando ’27).
Zigmund Featured in WVNY Story on Lung Cancer Screening

November 7, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(NOVEMBER 7, 2024) A North Country man says lung cancer screening saved his life, WVNY-TV reported. Beth Zigmund, M.D., associate professor of radiology, a diagnostic radiologist with the UVM Cancer Center said only 10 percent of Vermonters at high risk of cancer are being screened.
Read full story at WVNY-TV
Medical Students Host Underrepresented in Medicine for ‘Look at Larner’

November 4, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz

Pre-med students visited the University of Vermont October 25–26, 2024, for the fourth annual “Look at Larner,” a two-day event for aspiring medical students from populations underrepresented in the profession of medicine.

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