Intercultural Excellence at the Larner College of Medicine | January 2026
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“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” — Hippocrates
As we welcome 2026, we celebrate the incredible dedication, resilience, and achievements of our students, faculty, and staff. This year brings new opportunities to advance medical education, research, and patient care while championing better health for all communities.
Together, let’s make 2026 a year of innovation, compassion, and excellence in medicine—where inclusion and advocacy are at the heart of healing.
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1/1- New Year's Day (University Closed)
1/7- Christmas (Eastern Orthodox)
1/19- Martin Luther King Jr. Day (University Closed)
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“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Honoring a Legacy. Inspiring Change.
Since 2014, the Larner College of Medicine has honored the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by reflecting on his call for health justice and fostering dialogue that drives meaningful change. We invite you to join us—alongside leading voices in medicine, public health, and ethics—as we explore and share innovative solutions for advancing equity and justice in health care.
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2026 MLK Health Equity Lecture
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Code Blue! Resuscitating Trust in Medicine
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Trust in health care is declining. Amid falling trust in traditional institutions, the politicization of health, the misinformation crisis and leftover reactions to the pandemic, how can we resuscitate trust in health care to safeguard equitable access to trustworthy health care?
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January 28, 2026
5:30-7:00 pm
MedEd 200 Sullivan Classroom
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| Fleece Tie Blanket Making
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Join OIE for a community service initiative - creating fleece blankets for children receiving medical care at the Golisano Children’s Hospital Specialty Center at UVM Health.
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No sewing skills? No problem! These blankets are a “no-sew” version made by simply tying fleece fringes together. We will provide all materials, and a blanket can be completed in under an hour.
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January 22, 2026
11:00 am -1:30 pm
Med Ed 300
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King? His father, Michael King Sr., changed both of their names after a 1934 trip to Germany, where he was inspired by the life and courage of the theologian Martin Luther, whose challenge to the Catholic Church and stand for religious reform helped reshape Western Christianity.
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Sustainable Medicine: Preventing Burnout & Redefining Success Beyond the White Coat
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Julio Lemos, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology
UVM Larner College of Medicine
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January 20, 2026
5:30 pm
MedEd 100 Larner Classroom
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In December, our academic medical community came together to support neighbors in need. Through your generosity, we collected more than 500 personal care items for COTS!
Your contributions—large and small—reflect the compassion and commitment that define our community.
Thank you for helping us demonstrate what it means to care for one another.
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| National Library of Medicine
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Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy
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AI now analyzes physical traits to identify individuals and infer emotions—a modern parallel to physiognomy, the discredited practice of judging character by appearance.
Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy presents the history of physiognomy and explores its influence on some of today’s technologies.
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| Wear Red for Heart Health
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Show your support on National Wear Red Day by wearing red on Friday, February 6 to help raise awareness about our No. 1 killer of both women and men - heart disease.
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AAMC Group on Student Affairs (GSA)
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The Disability Research and Education in Academic Medicine (DREAM) Research Rounds is part of the DREAM (Meeks) Research Lab and showcases research and teams from around the world focused on disability inclusion and educational interventions in academic medicine.
All sessions are free, open to the community, and will be recorded and made available on our YouTube channel.
Food Insecurity Among Medical Students
January 13, 2026 | 1:00 PM ET
Food insecurity is an often overlooked but deeply consequential barrier in medical education, particularly for students with marginalized identities.
Learn more
Clinical Accommodations Guide - Implementation & Infrastructure - Co-Hosted by the AAMC
January 21, 2026 | 12:00 PM ET
This capstone session of a three-part webinar series translates findings from a national Delphi study into actionable strategies for long-term policy development, institutional planning, and systems-level infrastructure to support disability inclusion in clinical education.
Learn more
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| Redefining Risk Assessment and PREVENT-ing Cardiovascular Disease
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Co-sponsored seminar with the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont and the Dept of Medicine - Division of Hematology/Oncology.
CVRI Visiting Professor, Dr. Sadiya Khan
Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Learn more
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| Teaching Academy Snow Season Educational Retreat
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A two-day, hybrid education retreat featuring a plenary, poster session, workshops, and networking. This event is open to all UVM Larner College of Medicine faculty, students, and staff at all teaching sites in the University of Vermont Health Network and the Clinical Branch Campus/Nuvance Health in Connecticut.
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| UVM Division of Intercultural Excellence MLK Celebration Keynote- The Power of Resistance and Resilience with Rosalyn Pelles
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Join us in person or online on Thursday, January 29 from 4- 5:30 PM for the powerful, national voice for social and economic justice, Rosalyn "Roz" Pelles. A survivor of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, Roz has spent her life advancing Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of justice and equality.
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| Presidential Distinguished Burack Lecture "Disruptive Dualities?: The Transformative Potential of Disillusionment Within a Broken Academy"
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Brit Williams's discussion and Q&A exploring the dualities of how contemporary disruptions and disillusionment within higher education feel bleak and borderline broken, while also offering us renewed opportunities to collaborate and cultivate campus cultures that change lives.
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Led by Dr. Randall Holcombe the tour will give an overview of the four pillars of the UVM Cancer Center and will include an overview of the cancer center funding - including NIH funding, and there will be time for questions and answers with Dr. Holcombe. Spots are limited- registration required.
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Simplify or Stratify? The Debate over Medical School Grading Systems - NEJM
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This feature about the preclinical grading system in a medical school offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting continuation of the five-tier grading system (A, B, C, D, F) and the other recommending implementation of a pass/fail system.
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Deciding Whether to Accept an Unvaccinated Child into a Pediatric Practice
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Expectant parents come to your primary care office for a prenatal visit. The pregnant mother is a 32-year-old woman at 35 weeks’ gestation with her second child. The pregnancy, including prenatal testing and imaging, has been unremarkable.
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From Bandwidth to Bedside — Bringing AI-Enabled Care to Rural America
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Anna, 82 years old, lives alone in a weather-worn farmhouse 2 hours from the nearest hospital. When her artificial intelligence (AI)–enabled scale and smartwatch flagged weight gain and slowed gait, the alert reached her daughter Maria by text. But false alarms, unreliable broadband, and years of fragmented care had eroded Maria’s trust in these technologies.
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Liquid biopsies spark hope for early cancer detection
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More screenings are being developed and used to detect evidence of disease in bodily fluids. But questions remain about reliability and implications for care.
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U.S. medical schools enroll record number of students in 2025
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New AAMC data also show first-time applicants and women drove increase in applications to medical schools.
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Distribution of 400 New Medicare-Supported Graduate Medical Education Residency Positions Marks Milestone in Expanding the Physician Workforce
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today the distribution of 400 new Medicare-supported graduate medical education (GME) positions.
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Top 15 academic medicine stories of 2025
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The growing use of artificial intelligence in medical education. The impact of recent federal actions on student loans and hospitals. Changing vaccine guidance. These were among the most well-read AAMCNews stories of the year.
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