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College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Updated Fall 2020

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Required talking points

  • CNHS majors include...

    • Nursing

    • Exercise Science

    • Communication Sciences and Disorders

    • Medical Laboratory Science

    • Medical Radiation Science

    • Health Sciences

  • CNHS health students will do work at the UVM Medical Center

    • It is a Trauma 1 medical center -- the only one in VT and the largest north of Boston!

    • Clinicals, internships, and shadowing are built into the curriculum for each major; most CNHS majors have several

    • Simulation Lab: high-fidelity simulation patients, prepares students for real life clinicals

    • Attached to Robert Larner College of Medicine

  • PEP – Premedical Enhancement Program

    • A mentoring program where students shadow different physicians each year​

    • All students can apply - not just CNHS students

  • All professors are practitioners - they practice what they teach! 

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Additional optional talking points

  • LINKS Peer Mentors: The LINKS program matches first-year College of Nursing and Health Sciences students with peer mentors who are excited to connect them to the university, the college, their major and the greater Burlington community.

  • Study Abroad & CNHS: Sensitivity to cultural diversity is vital in the health care professions, where patient-provider relationships determine quality of care. CNHS offers semester-length exchange and short-term travel options (to Belize, Mongolia, Uganda, Cuba, Iceland and Oaxaca) to accommodate students whose curriculum may not allow a full semester experience. Nearly 30% of our students study abroad.

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AdvoCat Stories

  • Experiential Learning for CNHS

    • One of my friends is a part of the Exercise and Movement Science (I don't know the correct name of the major anymore) and got to work with the Men's Lacrosse team for one of their seasons as a AT assistant! ~Grace Parker

      • I have a good friend who is a CSD major and she spent the last year working with Provost Prelock on research regarding children with Autism and their ability to communicate over time! ~Grace Parker

  • UVM Medical Center

    • My sophomore year my cousin was having their first child in the hospital. I was able to be the 1st person to visit after and I went in between classes (I think I had an exam after). Shows how easy it is to jump into the hospital for clinicals or even just for yourself. Also they loved the staff and doctors and nurses so doherty seal of approval. -Owen Doherty​

      • I volunteered at UVMMC all of last year in the surgical waiting area. I was able to meet a lot of great surgeons, and one of them offered to let me shadow with them. I watched an open heart surgery on a Monday that I had off. I was there for 8 hours, standing next to surgeon while the patients heart was stopped and started back up again. It was a really transformative experience for me because it reaffirmed my passion for medicine and also that I could handle the gore and intensity of surgery. Everyone in the OR was amazing, the anesthesiologist, the profusioninst, the nurses. They were all amazing. The profusionist even took a photo of me to send to my mom. I really just felt at home in the environment, and I don't think that I would have been able to have an experience like that anywhere else.  -Aidan May (CAS major)

  • Other

    • In my first-year as a Nursing student, they held a ceremony for us during family weekend to give the students white coats to signify being Nursing students. Almost all of the first-year nursing students and their visiting families piled into (I believe) the Ira Allen Chapel along with some of the faculty. One by one the students walked onto the stage and had their coat put on them. The ceremony also included writing down why we wanted to be nurses, which was really meaningful to me. This was a really great experience to see and build that community with a lot of peers who we'll be having a lot of classes with throughout our four years as Nursing students. -Maya Benson-Merron

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