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 by Luke Vidic

NEWPORT — Across the nation, hospital workers are experiencing high levels of burnout.  Nurses’ and physicians’ workloads have skyrocketed due to COVID, and many have turned to the next generation of caretakers to ease the burden. In Vermont, officials fast-tracked pre-med and nursing students into careers, pulling students from university classrooms and into care centers before they received their diplomas.  In short, the pandemic has affected the next generation of health professionals.

With this in mind, the Chronicle wondered what the outlook looked like for medical students still a few years out from the real world.

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