Medical students may participate as volunteers in the interview day process for incoming students on Tuesdays and Thursdays, September to March. First & Second year students meet with applicants for Q & A periods between 11:40 a.m. and noon, give a short tour of the medical school and take the applicants to lunch in the Given Cafeteria, complete with meal tickets provided by the Medical Alumni Association. The Admissions Office will post sign-up sheets in early September for these sessions; get involved if you can. Also, first- and second-year students are needed to host applicants overnight; please contact the Admissions Office if you are interested (E215 Given Building, 656-2154).

Volunteering time and services to various organizations is a wonderful way to stay in touch with the community at large, especially during the first year and a half of school. The SMILE DOCs program and Ronald McDonald House offer opportunities for community involvement; many on-campus clubs are already actively involved in assisting these organizations. The Community Health Center provides health care at no or minimal cost - volunteers may be able to glean some clinical experience. Also, the United Way maintains a clearinghouse of opportunities and volunteers at nonprofit organizations.

The Anesthesiology Student Interest Group raises students' awareness about the field by presenting a range of events throughout the year. Previous events include faculty panels, informal resident Q&A, guest lectures, clinical skills practicum, and journal club. The group facilitates faculty shadowing opportunities and residency advising for interested students.

The Autism Student Interest Group will be provide resources to encourage awareness about current issues in Autism and facilitate interaction between medical students and children with Autism in the community.

Students interested in ethical issues in medicine, public health, research, and health care meet to review articles and discuss topics.

Our aim is to improve the health of under-served populations, especially the Latino Migrant Farm Worker community, while providing students with valuable clinical and cultural experiences. We are be able to coordinate volunteer experiences with the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury, and the NoTCH clinics in Franklin county dealing especially with Latino Migrant Farm Worker health. The group is currently looking for new directions to continue serving under-served populations in a meaningful way.

Our group focuses on the relationship between alternative medicine practice and allopathis medicine. We organize events, speakers, and journal reviews to increase understanding and collaboration between these different approaches to healing and medicine.

Our broad goals related to EHR education and training, advocacy for EHR best practices at FAHC and around Vermont and the US, and creating a structured and open place for dialogue about the ramifications of EHR for health in terms of medical staff and patient communication and relationships.

EMIG provides students with access to IV, suturing, splinting, and ultrasound clinics. Our group is connected with EM research going on at UVM as well as an ongoing journal club. We also provide students with access to shadowing and attending schedules at Fletcher Allen Emergency Department.

The goal of this group is to increase awareness with issues surrounding environmental health through creating a network of interested faculty members, medical students, physicians, and environmental scientists and student from the Rubenstein School. We currently organize monthly film screening of documentaries relating to the environment.

We host a yearly casting clinic, suturing clinic, injections clinic and several speakers about family health oriented issues and interests.

The purpose of the Gay Straight Alliance is to foster a nurturing and supportive environment for transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, and ally students, and to ensure all students have the skills and resources to become skilled health care providers for people of all genders and sexual orientations.

The GH SIG aims to educate the students about important issues affecting the practice of medicine internationally and here at home with the refugee population. We host speakers, collaborate with other organizations, organize film screenings and update the resource guide to encourage student learning and participation in summer research and fourth year abroad rotations

We provide a platform for information exchange to increase awareness of current and future health care issues impacting local, national, and global arenas (education), while providing opportunities for students to become directly involved in healthcare policy debate (advocacy). In the past, we have brought in speakers, hosted journal clubs, and discussion groups.

Hockey team comprised of UVM COM hockey players. Play on Friday nights during the Fall and Spring and play in a league in the winter. Play Dartmouth medical college once a year in the Specimen's Cup.

The Internal Medicine Interest Group is dedicated to providing information and clinical opportunities to students interested in a career in diagnosing and treating adults. We organize panels with Internal Medicine subspecialties and try to align them with the curriculum (i.e. Infectious disease panel during A&D). We also put on an annual Heart and Lung Sounds workshop to give students a time to practice their auscultation skils as well as interact with pulmonary care and cardiology faculty.

The marathon team is a group of students lead by 3 first year captains that train to run either the relay, half, or full Vermont City Marathon. In addition to training, the team works to raise money for research. The last 4 years the money has gone to Neuroblastoma research here at UVM. This year we will again extend the opportunity to research programs at UVM and Fletcher Allen to partner with the Marathon Team. We try to encourage members to raise at least 250 dollars, which allowed us to donate nearly 28,000 dollars to research efforts last year.

The Medical French Student Interest Group will provide resources to encourage and spread the knowledge of the French language in a medical setting, and allow medical students become comfortable with the language and the healthcare in Canada and other French-speaking countries (i.e. France, Haiti, Francophone Africa, etc.)

The Medical Spanish Interest Group aims to help students to develop a basic competency with medical Spanish. We meet once a month during lunch to go over Spanish vocabulary related to the clinical skills we are learning at the time, run through mock patient encounters, and answer general questions. Group members come from a variety of backgrounds, and all levels are welcome!

Working closely with faculty, SIGN organizes clinical skills sessions, social activities and unique opportunities for students interested in Neurology. We are looking forward an exciting year with the new class!

A student interest group devoted to the field of Neurosurgery. Interested students will be given the opportunity to work more closely with attendings and residents in the OR and clinic to more fully experience the complex field and develop an understanding of what a career in neurosurgery entails.

WWe are interesting in learning more about the fields of Obstetrics and Gynecology from healthcare providers at Fletcher Allen and in the community.

A student interest group devoted to the field of Neurosurgery. Interested students will be given the opportunity to work more closely with attendings and residents in the OR and clinic to more fully experience the complex field and develop an understanding of what a career in neurosurgery entails.

The Orthopaedic Surgery Interest Group (OSIG) is designed to help those students who are interested going into orthopaedics learn more about specialty and gain access to resources that will help them apply for residency. We expose students to basic procedures of the field with our suture clinic and splinting clinic. We hold sessions to educate students on the application process and how to optimize chances of matching in orthopaedics. Most events are in junction with the Surgery Interest Group, such as the suturing and knot-tying sessions. Other events like the splinting clinic are hosted only by OSIG. Plans continue to host a Journal Club to expose students to evidence-based medicine and how to critically assess the literature in orthopaedics.

The purpose of the OHNS is to help students: explore the field of Otolaryngology and learn about the vast spectrum of opportunity available in this career choice gain exposure to Otolaryngology by attending talks from ENTs whose specialties reflect the diversity of the field learn about the process of applying to otolaryngology residencies introduce students to research and shadowing opportunities within the department.

Our goal is provide education about palliative care, and to get students involved with actively learning about it. Our main event is the Palliative Care week, which is held annually in January. We are trying to work with Drs. Ramsay and McVeigh to expand our work to include trips to the VT Respite House to encourage interactions between students and patients.

We are a group of students interested in the field of Pediatrics. We hold activities centered around connecting with pediatrics faculty members and physicians as well as learning skills associated with treating and interacting with pediatric patients and populations. Our goal is to provide learning and networking opportunities to foster interest and connections within the field.

A group dedicated to assisting students find the best and most effective ways of learning class material through the use of technology and other techniques.

The goal of this group is to increase student awareness and interest in the areas of Physiatry (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) and Sports Medicine. Activities will be determined based on student interest and may include athletic taping workshop, subspecialty discussions, physician shadowing, volunteer work with adaptive sports groups, presentations on various injuries and treatments, and workshops to improve musculoskeletal and neuromuscular examination skills,.

The goal of the Radiology Student Interest Group (RSIG) is to serve as liaison between College of Medicine students and Fletcher Allen's Department of Radiology by providing broad academic and pre-professional support. Throughout the year, RSIG hopes offer various radiographic skills labs, opportunities for career counseling, Step I imaging prep while providing a convenient way for interested students to learn more about upcoming or active academic and clinical opportunities within the Department of Radiology..

Schweitzer Fellows work on developing and organizing a community service project of their own choice and design. Each individual or pair of students develops a project and works to identify and address an unmet health need in the community. The goals of the program is to provide direct service, encourage professional development, change the culture of professional schools to directly address disadvantaged communities, and support program alumni in lifelong community service.

SmileDocs is a program run by first and second year medical students that matches groups of 4-6 medical students with local elementary school classes. The medical students visit classrooms and teach students about the anatomy and physiology of the human body using models and actual pathology specimens that illustrate diseases. Students also learn about maintaining the health of their body systems through nutrition and exercise. Lessons include the musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, pulmonary and nervous systems or a series of lessons on medical professionals and nutrition. The medical students visit the same classroom four times each semester for an hour. Smile Docs is well known in the community and past participants have greatly enjoyed the program.

Sun Salute Yoga Interest Group offers weekly introductory yoga classes for medical students at a nominal fee. Given the nature of the stress level experienced by an average medical student, it is very important to not only encourage medical students to excel academically, but to encourage the critical skill of taking care of oneself-both mentally AND physically! With a theme for every class, the practice provides an opportunity to exercise in both a self reflective and focused way to counterbalance the rigors of academic life.

The Surgery Interest Group (SIG) was formed in 1996 and is comprised of a group of medical students interested in learning more about careers in surgery. The SIG plays an important role in allowing students to gain insight into what the life of a surgeon is like and what it takes to become a surgeon from both an academic standpoint as well as a personal standpoint. One of the strengths of the SIG is the support from all the attending surgeons at FAHC. This has enabled the group to host quarterly journal clubs covering a wide breadth of surgical specialties. Journal club also provides a unique opportunity for medical students to interact with attendings and conversely allows attendings to provide personal insight to their surgical expertise and meaningful clinical experiences. Through journal club and other surgical skill clinics hosted by the SIG, students are able to interact with the surgical faculty and create contacts for operating room and other clinical shadowing. Ultimately the SIG hopes to assist students in finding appropriate mentorship from the faculty of the surgery department for inspiration and guidance to a future career in surgery. Mission Statement: Promote surgery as a professional career for medical students.

We're a cooking club that meets once a month to learn how to cook a few dishes from one of our fellow classmates. Come join us on a culinary world tour! In the past we have done an Ethiopian night, Cuban night, and a New American night.