Education & Training Archive

October 4, 2012

Grant helps expand health care, education programs in Zambia

Vanderbilt University is dramatically expanding its health care and education activities in the southern African nation of Zambia.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 27, 2012

International medicine, ethics focus of resident’s book

Second-year General Surgery resident Anji Wall, M.D., Ph.D., hasn’t yet decided her surgical specialty, but she’s already written the book on ethics and international medicine, literally.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 6, 2012

New doctoral students welcomed

Vanderbilt University Medical Center welcomed 109 new doctoral students into the scientific community last week in the third annual “Simple Beginnings” ceremony.

By Leigh MacMillan
August 23, 2012

Bogota stint gives oral surgery resident glimpse of global need

While Benjamin Foley, D.D.S., was on a two-week surgical rotation in Bogota, Colombia, the impact of limited access to health care was as clear as the fused jaw of a 6-year-old child.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 9, 2012

Buerhaus named to Institute of Medicine’s GME committee

Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N., has been named to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee for Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 2, 2012

VUSM’s class of 2016 gets a jump on medical studies

July 23 was the first day of class for the VUSM class of 2016, a little more than a week earlier than the start of last year’s classes.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 26, 2012

School of Medicine debuts new model for medical learning

This summer, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students began implementing a new, innovative, four-year education model called Curriculum 2.0.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 15, 2010

Spotlight on Graduate Medical Education

By VUMC News and Communications
July 28, 2006

Vanderbilt-Reynolds Geriatrics Education Center to train physicians for elderly patients

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to create a comprehensive program to help train and educate those who care for elderly patients.
By VUMC News and Communications
December 6, 2004

Chapman posthumously awarded AMA’s top honor

John E. Chapman, M.D., former dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, was posthumously awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award by the American Medical Association.
By VUMC News and Communications