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Medical Care at Student Health

Student Health Services provides primary care at the University of Vermont using a primary care model for health care designed to increase your access to comprehensive, patient-centered care and resources to help you thrive inside and outside the classroom. 

All students can use Student Health Services, regardless of their health insurance. You do not need to have health insurance through UVM to use Student Health Services and most care is covered by the Student Health fee. Care not covered by the student health fee are usually testing or immunizations that require additional supplies or engagement with outside services – these are noted by “(additional fee)” below.

Counseling and Psychiatry Services (CAPS)

Counseling and Psychiatry Services (CAPS) offers mental health services and resources to all UVM degree-seeking students and other UVM students who have paid the health fee. Counseling services are offered free of charge in locations across campus.

To learn how to schedule an appointment for any of the below services, please visit our homepage uvm.edu/health.

Center for Health and Wellbeing Services

Medical Care at Student Health

General Medical Services

  • Care coordination for medical diagnoses and injuries
  • Illness and injury management
  • Appointments with Doctors (MD, DO), Physician Assistants (PA) or Nurse Practitioners (NP)
  • Respiratory nebulizer treatments (for chronic or viral induced asthma) (additional fee)
  • Skin biopsies to test for abnormal changes in skin (additional fee)
  • Inserting or removing stitches
  • Laboratory services (additional fee)
  • Wart removal
  • Wound care

​Allergy Clinic

Behavioral Health

  • Sleep consultations
  • Stress management consultations
  • Substance use consultations
  • Nicotine Cessation (support in creating a plan to quit using nicotine products)

Cancer Prevention and Screening

  • HPV vaccine and immunization (additional fee)
  • Pap smears (recommended for all those with a cervix and who are over 21)
  • Breast exams and mammography referrals
  • Testicular Exams

Diagnostic Testing 

  • Strep Testing (additional fee)
  • Pregnancy Testing (additional fee)
  • UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) Testing (additional fee)
  • Anemia (Iron) Testing – Hemoglobin finger stick (additional fee)
  • HIV Testing (additional fee)
  • Blood Sugar Testing – Glucose finger stick (additional fee)
  • Mononucleosis Testing (additional fee)
  • Tuberculosis (TB) Testing (additional fee)
  • COVID-19 Testing (additional fee)

Disordered eating

Gender Affirming Care

  • Ongoing clinical care, including laboratory monitoring (additional fee)
  • Beginning or continuing the use of prescription hormones (additional fee)
  • Referrals to specialists knowledgeable about gender transitions, including referrals for surgery, voice therapy, sperm or egg preservation, and hair removal
  • Full-spectrum sexual health care

Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching

  • Having trouble implementing daily habits to support your wellbeing? Talk to our coach!

Nutrition and Dietician Services

  • Sorting through conflicting nutrition advice
  • Learning to eat for health and well-being
  • Forming a more positive relationship with food
  • Plant-based diets
  • Eating for athletic performance
  • Modifying your diet for disease prevention
  • Selecting food on and off campus

Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Confidential screening and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV 
  • Prescription and management of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention
  • Evaluation and treatment of pain, rashes, lumps, lesions, etc. on your penis, vulva, or anus. 
  • Evaluation and treatment for issues related to menstruation.
  • Evaluation following unwanted sexual experience or assault.
  • Evaluation and treatment plans if you are experiencing pain during sex, erection issues, or other concerns related to sexual functioning.
  • Pregnancy testing (urine) (additional fee)
  • Nonjudgmental discussion of pregnancy options, including referrals to abortion services
  • Short Acting Contraception Prescribing (Birth control pill, patch, ring, shot, etc.)
  • Emergency Contraception (Plan B & Ella)

Vaccinations

  • Annual Flu Shot (additional fee)
  • MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) (additional fee)
  • TDap (Tetanus, Diptheria, Pertussis) (additional fee)
  • Gardasil (HPV vaccine series) (additional fee)
  • Hepatitis B (additional fee)
  • Menactra (Meningitis) (additional fee)

Counseling and Psychiatry Services (CAPS)

Individual Counseling

  • Relationship challenges
  • Exploring new or developing identities
  • Feeling sad or irritable
  • Body image concerns
  • Adjusting to college life
  • Grief and loss
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Recovery
  • Family stress and support
  • And many more topics!

Embedded Counselors at Identity Centers on Campus at the Prism Center, Mosaic Center for Students of Color or Women and Gender Equity Center

Let’s Talk drop-in counseling sessions at Living Well in the Davis Center.

Group Counseling – learn more about group counseling topics here.

Psychiatry services at CAPS (result in an additional fee to the student bill.)

Case Management

Urgent Services for Immediate Concerns

Health Promotion at Living Well in the Davis Center – The Hub for CHWB

Come to living well to:

  • Schedule an appointment with Student Health
  • Schedule an appointment at CAPS
  • Schedule an appointment for Integrative Wellness and Health Coaching
  • Schedule an appointment for Nutrition Services
  • Learn about education and outreach opportunities
  • Learn about recovery resources on campus and drop-in recovery counseling information
  • Get stickers
  • Get affirmation cards
  • Safer sex supplies
  • COVID-19 test kits
  • Hang out by a full-spectrum light knows as a “happy light” for vitamin-D
  • Book time in the massage chair
  • Schedule an event in the Living Well Studio
  • Attend a BASICS meeting with Tom Fontana
  • Integrative Wellness Coaching
  • Sit in the massage chair
  • Hang out in the space

Also stay tuned for many events throughout the academic year such as:

  • sexuality education, 
  • therapy dogs or service dogs in-training,
  • workshops about substance use,
  • bystander intervention,
  • yoga; and
  • many more!