Global Health

a medical student monitors a childs heartbeat

Mending Hearts in Jamaica: How I Rediscovered My Why

Althea Tapales is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine.

In the following blog post, she reflects on having recently returned from volunteering at a one-week medical mission in Jamaica working with a team who completed 15 congenital cardiac surgeries for children, and the impact it had on her.

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Karena Nguyen

Connecting Generations at Cho Ray: A Global Health Experience in Vietnam

Karena Nguyen, M.D.’25, is a Larner alumna and internal medicine intern at the University of California–San Diego.

In the following blog post, she reflects on the profound connection created by sharing an experience at Cho Ray Hospital, where her father served there as a child. This moment transformed a long-held dream into reality, reinforcing the emotional impact of her global health rotation as a medical student in Vietnam.

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