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Vermont Medicine Magazine

Published quarterly, Vermont Medicine magazine features news and stories about faculty, students, staff, alumni, and the community.

Featured Stories

04-13-2012

Lessons from Doña Paulina

In his prize-winning essay, medical student Peter Cooch reflects on his time spent providing medical care in a small village in the Guatemalan highlands: "For much of that time, I worked as an aide for an elderly Mayan woman recovering from a sizeable ulcer. My friendship with this octogenarian hermit, with whom I share almost no language or cultural background, is among the oddest and most difficult relationships of my life. Yet, for those same reasons, it has been one of the most meaningful."

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Filling the Gap

04-13-2012

Filling the Gap

Three $500,000 NIH Challenge Grants were secured by investigators at the College of Medicine through funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These researchers only had two years to obtain results, but they rose to the challenge to deliver solid and sometimes surprising findings.

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Match Day 2012

04-10-2012

Match Creates March Madness Among Senior Medical Students

Imagine surrendering the fate of your career, after four rigorous years of medical school and multiple interviews, to a highly sophisticated computerized system. While the suspense can be maddening, that’s how Match Day – an annual event involving roughly 16,000 medical students across the country – works. Graduating ...

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