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MD News

  • Brie Match Day

    ‘Paging Drs. White-Dzuro’: Siblings continue VUSM legacy

    Family bonds strengthen at VUSM for two students, one alumna by Lexie Little Claire and Brie at Brie’s Match Day Google “White-Dzuro M.D. Vanderbilt” and three names will appear: Gabrielle (Brie), an anesthesiology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital; Colin, a fourth-year medical student; and Claire, a first-year medical student. Each… Read More

    September 23, 2021

  • Gunther Wong

    Bass Military Scholar looks to lead

    by Lexie Little As 1st Lt. Gunther Wong crouched behind a dusty wall in Afghanistan in 2016, a career in medicine didn’t pop up on his radar. However, as he reflected on the civilian needs he observed, he set his sights on applying the values and discipline he gained in… Read More

    September 19, 2021

  • Sean Luong

    Threads old and new: HPSP students take oath at White Coat Ceremony

    by Lexie Little M1 students Sean Luong and Natalie Jones commit to service as officer-physicians When Lt. Col. Will Hansen officially retired from the U.S. Army on Sept. 1, 2019, he stashed his uniform in the closet not knowing light outside would ever reach its stitching for a military reason… Read More

    September 10, 2021

  • The Best of Both Worlds: How MSTPs Balance Life in Two Advising College Communities

    The Best of Both Worlds: How MSTPs Balance Life in Two Advising College Communities

    by Emma Mattson From Big-Little Reveal to College Cup, the four med school colleges get a lot of well-deserved publicity. But less attention gets paid to an equally crucial support system for our MD PhD students: the MSTP colleges. Maybe you’re an M2 student wondering if the transition to research… Read More

    September 28, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    VUSM Alumni Reminisce About Their White Coat Ceremonies

    The white coat ceremony is a particularly important memory for me even though my parents were unable to attend. It was difficult for my mother to travel at the time and my father died suddenly, two years prior from an MI. When I was in college, he bought… Read More

    July 24, 2017