Gold Humanism Honor Society
The
Larner College of Medicine established a chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2005. The purpose of our chapter
is to recognize those students who have demonstrated outstanding personal/interpersonal characteristics in their interactions with fellow students/teachers/staff and/or patients and their families. The selection of students for this honor is obtained
from students within the class using a peer evaluation survey and from members of our faculty and staff.
Approximately 15% of the rising fourth-year class will be inducted. Students are inducted at a dinner during the Honors Night banquet in May. Selection of GHHS students are announced to all students and faculty, indicated in the MSPE, and acknowledged
at graduation. We are very proud of the Class of 2025 inductees,
selected by their fellow classmates and the Class of 2024 GHHS members.
As our students have been highly involved in community service activities, it is particularly likely that those selected for membership in the GHHS will embrace the idea of establishing an ongoing project that will advance the ideals of the Society
in our community.
In addition to the class GHHS members, one student and one faculty member are nominated by the student, faculty, and staff and selected each year as the recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. The 2021 recipients of the award were Dr. Davika Singh, Infectious Disease Professor and Clinician, at our UVM Medical Center, and Dr. Christina Alexandria Dawson, a member of the Larner College of Medicine Class of 2021 and a Pediatrics Resident, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC.