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  • Hands-On Learning: Medical Students Work with Patients Early in Curriculum
    September 1, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz
    Larner students work with real patients in the first year of medical school. In Doctoring in Vermont, a course that pairs students with physicians in the community, they provide direct patient care and practice history-taking and examination skills. First-year students also shadow nurses in the hospital, investigate social determinants of health, and do clinical work in community settings.
  • Dr. First Talks ‘First’ Aid with Adirondack Daily Enterprise
    August 31, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 31, 2024) In a column on injury prevention for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Lewis First, M.D., M.S., professor and chair of pediatrics, explains how to put together a family first aid kit.
    Read full story at Adirondack Daily Enterprise
  • Leffler Quoted in Valley News Article on Vt. Health Insurance Costs
    August 28, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 28, 2024) Stephen Leffler, M.D.’90, president and COO of the UVM Medical Center, was quoted by the Valley News in an article on Vermont’s ever-escalating health insurance prices.
    Read full story at the (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) Valley News
  • Dombrowski Comments to Seven Days on UVM’s Research Buildup
    August 28, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 28, 2024) Kirk Dombrowski, Ph.D., vice president for research and economic development at the University of Vermont, spoke with Seven Days about the university’s efforts to secure its future by building up its research.
    Read full story at Seven Days
  • UVM Cancer Center Trainee Spotlight – Deena Snoke, Ph.D.
    August 28, 2024 by Katelyn Queen, Ph.D.
    In a new publication in the Journal of Cachexia and Sarcopenia of Muscle, post-doc Deena Snoke, Ph.D., shares her research findings that lung cancer patients experience a 20 percent reduction in muscle fiber size after two months of conventional treatment despite no measurable changes in muscle at the whole-body or whole-tissue level.

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