Posts that are topical for incoming or current fourth-year medical students.
“I came to medical school feeling like I had two competing identities: the professional and the comedian. Instead of asking me to choose between them, this community showed me how to be both authentically.” Hometown: Originally Morristown, New Jersey, but her family moved to Vermont in 2013.Where will you be doing your residency?: NYU Grossman […]
A New Audience to Have in Stitches: From Comedy to Surgery Read More »
H. James Wallace, M.D.’88 is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at The Robert Larner M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and bagpiper.
In the following blog post, Wallace describes his time as the official bagpiper for the annual Match Day celebration.
The Bagpipe Residency Read More »
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.
Mending Hearts in Jamaica: How I Rediscovered My Why Read More »
