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► Students recently shadowed nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center, in order to gain an understanding of what their jobs entail and reinforce the critical role each member of the interprofessional health care team plays in patient care.

Class of 2022 Students to Attend Cultural Awareness Conference on Opioid Use Disorder

On Wednesday, February 20, all first-year medical students will be joining advanced practice nursing students and pharmacy students at the annual Cultural Awareness Conference, titled “Opioid Use Disorder: What is Our Role in Building a Humanistic Response?” During this half-day program, attendees will hear from both individuals who have been personally impacted by the opioid crisis, as well as health care clinicians and community responders. Attendees will examine the physiologic, societal, financial and cultural factors that contribute to the opioid crisis, what is being done in Vermont, and what we can do to support our patients and our community. This event is invite-only.

►Save-the-Date! Class of 2019 Match Day will take place on Friday, March 15th at 11:45 am in the Hoehl Gallery. More info to come.

Smith Examines Providers’ Confidence Level with Medical Cannabis Prescribing

The third-year Community Health Improvement Project requirement in the family medicine clerkship aims to train students to identify a health-related issue within the community in which they’re completing their rotation, determine public health costs associated with the issue, propose a way to address the issue, and report their results back to their preceptors.  

In December 2018, Danielle Smith ’20 was two weeks into her six-week family medicine rotation and hadn’t yet selected a community health project topic. Then, a series of serendipitous events pointed her in the perfect direction, starting with a Family Medicine Ground Rounds presentation by W. Stephen Faraci, Ph.D., founder and chief scientific officer at CYTA Therapeutics, Inc. in Lowell, Mass., called “Medical Marijuana: Overview and Potential Use for Family Medicine Doctors.”

With her interest piqued, she made a mental note to do more research on the topic and returned to her rotation. Find out what happened next here.

►Explore Ethical Dilemmas on Global Health Diaries

On the blog: "I Hope to Someday Be a Good Doctor"

Katie Callahan ’21 shares insights from her Global Health Elective experience in Uganda in her blog post. She says, "I am a fast-paced, fast-talking, fast-moving kind of person who loves efficiency and efficacy – characteristics that could not be more different than the cultural norms in Uganda." Read her full reflection.

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SIG Highlight: Relax and Unwind with the Yoga SIG

The UVM Yoga Student Interest Group will be hosting a series of student-run yoga classes to help medical students relax, unwind, and get a bit of exercise in between study sessions. The Yoga SIG aims to help students take care of their physical and mental health by offering free sessions on the medical campus throughout the upcoming weeks. For more information on upcoming events please visit the COM Student Services Calendar or contact Lauren Lauren Bougioukas or Malla Keefe.

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