Residency

“What Gets You Up in the Morning?” The 2014 Family Medicine Congressional Conference #FMCC2014

Written by Sarah Manning ’17
From lobbying on Capitol Hill to learning more about federal priorities for residency training, the 2014 Family Medicine Congressional Conference was a whirlwind of activity. I attended with fellow UVM College of Medicine student Jen Makrides, representing Vermont and the College alongside medical students and physicians from 47 states.

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What is the “Mind?” Treatment of Psychiatric & Physical Illness in Children

Written by George “Bud” Vana ’14
The Hasbro Partial Hospitalization Program is a medical-psychiatric program for children and adolescents. Patients there need to have both a chronic medical issue with a diagnosis as well as a psychiatric problem which could benefit from a temporary stay at this integrated program. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect; I didn’t know how the discussions of patients’ multifaceted treatment might go, and I did not know who exactly these patients might be. But many of the patterns in patients who came to the partial hospitalization program made sense.

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