Central Vermont Medical Center President and CEO, Judy Tarr, is pleased to announce that Cynthia S. Smith, MD has joined Barre Internal Medicine, part of the CVMC Medical Group. .
Dr. Smith, who is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, was most recently practicing at UniversityHealth Center in Burlington as an Attending Physician, Primary Care Internal Medicine. She was also Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
“I really enjoyed the bustle and the many learning opportunities of academic medicine," Smith remarked, "but I was ready to make a shift to a smaller, more patient-centered environment."
"Because CVMC operates at a smaller scale," she continued, "it is easier to get to know my patients and my colleagues in greater depth. For me, it is developing the one-on-one relationships that are the most enjoyable part of being a physician, and the most important."
Dr. Cynthia Smith earned her undergraduate degree (A.B. cum laude) in Classics-Latin atHarvard-Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her Doctor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, with Honors in Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and Primary Care. She completed her residency at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care in Internal Medicine on the primary care track.
Prior to medical school Dr. Smith attended Stanford University’s Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy. After receiving her A.B., Dr. Smith taught Classics (Latin) at Tabor Academy in Massachusetts, where she also coached track and field, played the French horn and worked to fulfill her pre-medical requirements.
She then spent two years at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where she worked as a Research Study Coordinator, designing and implementing clinical research protocols involving late effects of childhood cancer. She also served as the Coordinator of Dana Farber's multidisciplinary clinic for adult survivors of childhood cancers.