MIDP News

  • Three medical students in white coats stand next to a medical school seal

    MIDP students develop patient care app prototype

    Third-year Medical Innovators Development Program (MIDP) students Emma Neal, PhD, Sarah Ouadah, PhD, and Noah Thompson Orfield, PhD, used patient-centered insights to develop a new health care app for improving team care and communication By: Lexie Little In a hospital setting, patients encounter many faces and care teams: from… Read More

    Apr. 20, 2023

  • Two men in suits, ties, and lanyards stand in the middle of a conference hall

    MIDP students drive empathetic medical innovation

    A clinical patient encounter led two Medical Innovators Development Program students to develop a potentially life-saving technology through an industry immersion experience with GE HealthCare Photo: Anne Rayner By: Lexie Little The heart monitor beep kept time with an IV pump like the ticking of a clock. More beeps sounded,… Read More

    Feb. 27, 2023

  • A man in a long white coat helps a student to put on a short white coat

    Diagnosing problems, providing solutions

    M1 Darryl Delsoin joins the Medical Innovator Development Program (MIDP) with an entrepreneurial mission By: Lexie Little M1 Darryl Delsoin Darryl Delsoin peered through the white smoke cloud. He watched as local Haitian women and men cooked over ash-riddled round stoves fueled by charcoal. Nearby wooden doorways, some stained with… Read More

    Sep. 6, 2022

  • Noah Thompson Orfield

    The doctor is in: Q&A with MIDP’s Noah Thompson Orfield

    Noah Thompson Orfield, PhD, brings in-depth scientific experience to inform his medical education by Lexie Little While all students who graduate from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine MD curriculum leave with the title “Doctor,” those in the Medical Innovators Development Program (MIDP) enter with that form… Read More

    Nov. 2, 2021