Posts that are topical for incoming or current first-year medical students.
Kiana Heredia is a medical student in the Class of 2024 at the UVM Larner College of Medicine. As an undergraduate pre-medical student slogging through basic science courses in physics, chemistry, and more, Heredia found herself questioning her career choice. In this blog post, Heredia describes that experience and what eventually led her back to a career in medicine.
Early on in my illness a friend sent me a meme.
“How do medical students get sick; can’t they just open a textbook and cure themselves?” it asked.
Although it wasn’t that simple, I learned a lot from the process of trying to discover what was wrong with me…I was getting a crash course on the art of medicine from the patient perspective, with my medical bill jokingly serving as the cost of tuition.
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The UVM-Med Outdoor Orientation, or U-MOO, is an optional camping trip offered to incoming first-year students at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. In this post, medical student Jake Ermolovich reflects on his experience as a leader of the trip in August 2021.
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