eMagazine March 2023

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OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine Global Health Narrative Medicine Class March 2023 Highlights Reviews GH Narrative Reflections Hispanic and Latinx Voices Global Local Voices of Ugandan Students Nursing Division Women’s Health Education Written by Andrea Green, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Global Health in Department of Pediatrics at UVMLCOM In December 2021, I offered a four-week reading elective on the topic of Global Health Narrative Medicine. Themes of the course were explored through a mixture of fiction and memoir complemented with journal articles. At the end of each reading, students wrote a short reflection on the assigned reading and its accompanying articles. A range of topics was made available to students who had the option of choosing six core readings and their accompanying journal articles. On the next page is a reflection from Micaila Baroffio’ 2023, one of the students who participated in this course in 2022. Innovation and Technology Our Beautiful Planet Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Article of the Month You’re Invited Photo News Calendar Global Health Family Resources Previous Issues of the eMagazine Cima Sedigh (Ice coat) 14 GH Narrative continued on next page >>

OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Enduring Global Health eMagazine March 2023 Written by Micaila Baroffio MD Candidate, Class of 2023 The Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont Highlights Reviews GH Narrative Reflections Hispanic and Latinx Voices Global Local Voices of Ugandan Students Nursing Division Women’s Health Education Innovation and Technology Our Beautiful Planet Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Article of the Month You’re Invited Photo News Calendar Global Health Family Resources Previous Issues of the eMagazine they say, within ourselves we carry a small cemetery we visit, from time to time to pray here, the mother a silver nimbus stilled, restrained battered, not battering scarlet bonds severed floating freed, finally here, the father a statue snow crested, fallen bloom blooming through alabaster cracks the son, witnessed, facade crumbling here, the brother an old oak strangled from the inside, thorned needles creeping tumor pressing, pressing invading, insistent inevitable here, the child a willow blossom drawn from its branch, into riffle, tide, torrent of voices, howling willow mourning blossom drowning gravestones all here, enduring. 15

OUR PEOPLE,<br />

OUR MISSION<br />

Global Health<br />

<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />

Global Health<br />

Narrative Medicine<br />

Class<br />

<strong>March</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

Highlights<br />

Reviews<br />

GH Narrative<br />

Reflections<br />

Hispanic and Latinx Voices<br />

Global Local<br />

Voices of Ugandan<br />

Students<br />

Nursing Division<br />

Women’s Health Education<br />

Written by Andrea Green, MD<br />

Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Global Health in<br />

Department of Pediatrics at UVMLCOM<br />

In December 2021, I offered a four-week<br />

reading elective on the topic of Global Health<br />

Narrative Medicine. Themes of the course were<br />

explored through a mixture of fiction and memoir<br />

complemented with journal articles. At the end of<br />

each reading, students wrote a short reflection<br />

on the assigned reading and its accompanying articles. A range of topics was<br />

made available to students who had the option of choosing six core readings<br />

and their accompanying journal articles.<br />

On the next page is a reflection from Micaila Baroffio’ <strong>2023</strong>, one of the students<br />

who participated in this course in 2022.<br />

Innovation and Technology<br />

Our Beautiful Planet<br />

Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />

Can Be<br />

Article of the Month<br />

You’re Invited<br />

Photo News<br />

Calendar<br />

Global Health Family<br />

Resources<br />

Previous Issues of<br />

the <strong>eMagazine</strong><br />

Cima Sedigh (Ice coat)<br />

14<br />

GH Narrative continued on next page >>

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