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  • Vanderbilt University

    VUSM Honors M4 Awardees on 2024 Class Day

    Class Day 2024 in Langford Auditorium VUSM’s annual Class Day recognizes members of the graduating class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards on Thursday, May 9, 2024: The Albert Weinstein Prize in… Read More

    May. 14, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    Faculty Receive Student-Selected Awards During 2024 Almost Alumni Luncheon

    Almost Alumni Luncheon opening remarks from Dean Jeffrey Balser, MD, Ph.D. (Photo: Anne Rayner) Each spring, Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Affairs alongside Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes outstanding faculty members for their contributions to student medical education, as voted upon by graduating M4s VUSM faculty, staff, and students celebrated the… Read More

    May. 9, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    Trusting the Process: MSTP Thao Do Vy Le Matches into Psychiatry

    As she approaches graduation, M4 Thao Le, Ph.D. reflects on finding her way and unlocking her passions at VUSM By Kyra Letsinger M4 MSTP student Thao Do Vy Le, Ph.D., was always ready to take risks. From a young age, when it came to new opportunities, she was not… Read More

    May. 1, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    2024 Student Flexner Lectures Examine Values of Service, Navigating the Insurance Industry

    M3 Gunther Wong and M4 Alison Swartz offer their peers valuable insights from their past career experiences By Kyra Letsinger In the early 2000s, former Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs Bonnie Miller, MD, organized an unscheduled Deans’ Hour, a space in the curriculum created to provide a formal lecture… Read More

    Apr. 1, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    M4 Students Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal are a Match Made in Med School Heaven

    Fourth-year couple Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal look to tackle residency together after spending their VUSM journeys side by side. By: Kyra Letsinger Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal outside EBL on the last day of their M1 year When Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal entered their first day of M1… Read More

    Feb. 12, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    The Next Chapter of Curriculum 2.0

    In its 10th year, Curriculum 2.0 continues to innovate, this time through the creation of FCC Launch Week. By: Kyra Letsinger The vision of Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine is simple: to shape a future in which all persons reach their full health potential. Read More

    Jan. 9, 2024

  • A medical student in a white coat smiles.

    Finding Purpose in a Passion for People: Meet M1 Abhi Manda

    By: Kyra Letsinger As a high schooler, Abhi Manda had no plans of becoming a doctor. That is not to say he knew exactly what he wanted to do – in fact, the opposite seemed to be true. There was so much he wanted to do that… Read More

    Sep. 5, 2023

  • Three medical students in scrubs pose with framed artwork

    M3 medical students take on art initiative, call for artists to submit

    Medical students seek donated art from fellow students and artists to support patient care in Vanderbilt University Medical Center clinical spaces Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students, from left, Sophie Schellhammer, Wyatt Cole and Mike Libre formed a program that brings artwork into the rooms of patients at Stallworth Rehabilitation… Read More

    Jul. 26, 2023

  • A medical student volunteer demonstrates a simulation for high school students

    VUSM Social Mission Committee encourages future physicians

    Vanderbilt and Meharry medical students teamed with Vanderbilt University Medical Center residents and fellows to visit eight local public schools By: Lexie Little Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Social Mission Committee (SMC) operates with a mission to educate diverse, socially and culturally accountable future physician leaders. MD student… Read More

    May. 22, 2023

  • A dean in a yellow dress presents an award to an MD student

    VUSM recognizes 2023 award winners

    Class Day 2023 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Langford Auditorium Vanderbilt University Photo: Anne Rayner Each spring, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes members of the graduating MD class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental… Read More

    May. 11, 2023