graduate medical education

Terhune named Senior Vice President for Educational Affairs

Vanderbilt’s Kyla Terhune, MD, MBA, Vice President for Educational Affairs and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, has been named Senior Vice President for Educational Affairs.

Donald Brady, MD

Brady named Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs

Donald Brady, MD, has been appointed to an expanded oversight role of Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Day celebrates many contributions of residents, fellows

Friday, Feb. 25, is Thank a Resident Day, an annual opportunity to celebrate Vanderbilt’s physicians in training.

House staff education includes focus on health equity

This summer’s annual orientation for new interns, residents and fellows included a bold new discussion about the history of racism in Nashville and at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as well as topics on health equity and anti-racism in medical practice.

Christin Giordano McAuliffe, MD, and fellow VUMC medical residents played a key role creating more flexible leave policies for physicians-in-training across the country.

Medical residents help craft national leave policy

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), which oversees physician certification in the United States, announced the adoption of a “progressive leave policy that will offer residents and fellows more flexibility, reduce stress and increase autonomy in making life decisions, especially with regard to family and parental leave.”