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Community College of Vermont and Hospital Pay Students to Take Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. CCV and SVMC anticipate funding 8-10 applicants.

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Learning to become a medical interpreter

CAPD

You’re in the hospital with a serious condition. And not only is there a linguistic gap between you and your medical team, but there is also a cultural barrier that’s preventing you from getting the quality of care you need and deserve. This scenario is common in hospitals and healthcare centers across Massachusetts and the US.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to students who find excellent jobs after graduating from a four-year institution, some EPW alumni are pursuing graduate studies. “I Teneo Linguistics Company, the Agape Clinic and Dallas Children’s Hospital. The students usually report back to us where they are employed.

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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

You might think that the teaching content in a professional vocational degree like medicine – defined by the governing body the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and detailing what a medical student should know as they exit their undergraduate programme and embark on their first day as a junior doctor – would be almost entirely prescriptive.

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Building a Meaningful Microcredential Program

Parchment

Can you help build that volume of alumni that will come work for us, that want to work for us, that want to learn more about our industry, our company. And Arthrex is a leading medical device industry that happens to have their headquarters here in Collier County in Naples, Florida. We have… medical technology.

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Peer Mentorship: A win-win for alumni and students alike

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Being asked specific questions about how to work with stakeholder feedback, or how best to integrate quality assessment templates within a systematic review tool, pulled us back to our own MPH coursework but also those experiences that we’ve now had as alumni. Jasmin Funk Jasmin Funk completed the MPH at the University of Edinburgh in 2020.

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A teamwork approach to longitudinal research in a premed program (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

During the pandemic, students weren’t allowed in the hospital. Competition for medical school admission is intense (with an approximate 40 percent acceptance rate). Promise of poster/publication: A poster or publication is very valuable to their medical school application.