Over the past few weeks, Mica Goulbourne has been working with Dr. Josh Kantrowitz, MD along with other providers at St Johnsbury Pediatrics for her pediatrics rotation. Goulbourne is a second-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
Goulbourne was born in Jamaica and grew up in Georgia. Her interests include child abuse prevention and rural health.
“There’s this idea that people keep to themselves in the northeast, that they’re kind of distant,” she said. “But I have found Vermont’s northeast kingdom and all the people I meet here to be very friendly and welcoming.”
Goulbourne is eager to learn as much as she can during her time at St. Johnsbury Pediatrics.
“Mica is really dedicated to the patients and her work,” Kantrowitz said. “It’ll be after 5 p.m. on a Friday and she’s still asking if she can see another patient.”
Goulbourne’s rotation ends on April 4.
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital is located in St. Johnsbury in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We are a community, not-for-profit, acute care, critical access hospital. NVRH is one of two Vermont hospitals designated as a Baby FriendlyTM hospital by the United Nations. The organization provides primary and preventive care, surgical and specialty services, inpatient and outpatient care and 24-hour, physician-staffed emergency services. NVRH serves more than 30,000 people in the Caledonia and Southern Essex Counties in Vermont and employs 600.