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.
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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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Finlay Pilcher is a medical student in the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Class of 2024 and a 2021-2022 VT/NH Schweitzer Fellow.
In the second of a two-part series, Pilcher explores how her experience trying, and by some measures, failing to improve Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Lamoille County, Vermont reinforced her choice to leave her job as a geotechnical engineer (six years ago) to pursue a career in medicine.
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career Read More »
