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

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.

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Remolding Trauma & Pain: A Reflection on Psychiatry

Medical Education, Third-Year

Jake Ermolovich is a Class of 2024 medical student at the UVM Larner College of Medicine. Having recently finished a clinical clerkship rotation in psychiatry, he wrote a reflection about the six weeks he spent at Champlain Valley Physician’s Hospital in Plattsburgh, New York and the lessons he will take from it into his future rotations.

Patient Interviews: Conversations That Often Have Little to Do with Medicine

First-Year, Medical Education

Chellam “Chellie” Nayar is a medical student in the University of Vermont (UVM) Larner College of Medicine Class of 2025. In November 2021, Nayar rode the elevator to the fourth floor of the UVM Medical Center’s Miller Building, on her way to interview one of her first patients.