Medical Student Life

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

Community

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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Commencement Address by Francis Mtuke, M.D.’22

Fourth-Year, Medical Alumni, Medical Education

On Sunday, March 22, 2022 Francis Mtuke, M.D.’22, delivered the student address at the Larner College of Medicine Commencement Ceremony. It was the second time he’s given a commencement address; the first time was at his graduation from Texas A&M University in 2017. Dr. Mtuke will be starting his anesthesiology residency program at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington in June.

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Celebrating the Year of the Tiger

Community, Office of Intercultural Excellence

In this post, medical student members of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association at the Larner College of Medicine—Karena Nguyen, Dennis Dea, Jiayi Luo, William Hsu, and Megan Zhou—write about the importance of celebrating Lunar New Year, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased violence against Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

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