Second-Year

Posts that are topical for incoming or current second-year medical students.

The Importance of Laboratory Literacy

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.