On Match Day 2015, University of Vermont Medical School students found matches made in heaven. For one couple of engaged young doctors, it was a matching pair, as they learned they were headed to Johns Hopkins. And there could only be one match for \"Highlander\" actor turned-doctor, Peter Wingfield, as he prepared to head back to California for a residency program at UC San Diego. <\/p>\n
In total, 112 fourth-year UVM med students were sorted into residency programs, where theyll spend the next three to seven years. <\/p>\n
This is the culmination of 4 years putting together knowledge, clinical skills, humanism, professionalism into basically giving medical students their first job, said Dr. Lewis First, chairman of the UVM Med School Department of Pediatrics. <\/p>\n
Jericho native Liz Abernathy is going into pediatrics. <\/p>\n
I love kids, I love their families, said Abernathy. <\/p>\n
She also happens to be Deaf. <\/p>\n
There is a growing sector of the medical community that has hearing loss of some form, said Abernathy. <\/p>\n
The college says Abernathy is the first known Deaf medical student. Along the way, shes gotten help to level the playing field, like using a sign language interpreter in lectures, and a special electronic stethoscope when working with patients. <\/p>\n
The sound is delivered through the headphones, said Abernathy. <\/p>\n
She says using her stethoscope can be a challenge in cases where being sterile is especially crucial, and hospital rooms have a specific one for physicians to use, but shes found a way around it. <\/p>\n
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