The mentorship program — a partnership between VUMC Nursing and Metro Nashville Public Schools — connects staff nurses to students eyeing nursing and health care professions like Aries Beck, who wants to be a neurologist and got her first glimpse at medicine in second grade at Vanderbilt Brain Institute’s Brain Blast.

Nurses are accustomed to comforting patients and families through loss, but when they lose one of their own, it hurts in a unique, palpable way. Fortunately, they can count on each other.

Shana Parks works in the Colorectal Surgery Clinic and she is one of the latest group of DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

Nurses Week at all VUMC hospitals and clinics is a special time. Here are just a few scenes from this year's celebration.

"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..."

Six junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows have been appointed this year to the Vanderbilt Faculty Research Scholars (VFRS) program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, has received the Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rehabilitation Research and Development from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).