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The Importance of Laboratory Literacy

First-Year, Medical Education, Research, Second-Year

Jordan Franco is a medical student in the UVM Larner College of Medicine Class of 2025.

In the following blog post, Franco writes about the importance of laboratory literacy as a key component of health literacy.

During the summer of 2022, Franco worked alongside Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Mark Fung, M.D., Ph.D., with whom he conducted research on health literacy.

Dario Vanegas Betancur, Class of 2025 medical student, poses outside of the Medical Education Building concourse on the UVM Larner Med Vermont campus.

When It Starts to Come Together: Doctoring in Vermont

First-Year, Medical Education, Second-Year

Dario Vanegas is a medical student in the UVM Larner College of Medicine Class of 2025. In the following blog post, Vanegas writes about his experience in the Vermont Integrated Curriculum course – “Doctoring in Vermont.”

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What I Learned About Bodily Autonomy and Privilege Through Donating My Eggs

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Elise Prehoda is a medical student in the Class of 2024 at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. She is also a recent egg donor.

In the following blog post, Prehoda writes about how she initially learned about egg donation, her decision-making process when considering donation, and the things she wishes she knew about along the way.