Schweitzer Fellowship

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career

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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.

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Perspectives on Homelessness: With and Without the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Raghav Goyal ’22 is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life who first conducted a project involving Burlington’s homeless community during his second year of medical school. He shares his perspective on life in the homeless community, as well as an interview with Ronni Pearlman, a community member with a lived experience of homelessness who volunteers for several organizations in Burlington.

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Supporting Rural Vermonters in a Weekly Needle Exchange Program

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From The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program
Katrina Thornburgh looks forward to her weekly trips to Franklin County in the Vermont Cares mobile outreach van. Thornburgh, an Albert Schweitzer Fellow and medical student at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, is part of an effort to expand mobile syringe services in communities such as St. Albans, Enosburg, and Swanton in northwestern Vermont.

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