The event featured lectures, breakout sessions and mentored work time that reinforced the seven-step evidence-based practice model.

The mentorship program — a partnership between VUMC Nursing and Metro Nashville Public Schools — has enabled staff nurses to empower students eyeing nursing and health care professions. Aries Beck wants to be a neurologist.

The Mama Lere Hearing School teaches children, mostly with hearing loss, to listen, read, sing and talk.

The Academy for Excellence in Education's mission is to enhance the educational environment at Vanderbilt.

V2-GENE, the Vanderbilt-Vietnam Genetic Epidemiology Training Program, will develop a team of researchers and educators to lead genetic epidemiology research of noncommunicable diseases across the lifespan in Vietnam.

"The support of VUMC’s GME programs and the development of its future clinicians and leaders allows for optimal patient care and the creation of a learning environment that supports our patients and learners of all stages..."

On May 14, two groups at Vanderbilt University Medical Center — the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research and the Center for Learning Healthcare — together hosted the Vanderbilt Symposium on Implementation Research in the Learning Health System.