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    2024 Student Flexner Lectures Examine Values of Service, Navigating the Insurance Industry

    M3 Gunther Wong and M4 Alison Swartz offer their peers valuable insights from their past career experiences By Kyra Letsinger In the early 2000s, former Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs Bonnie Miller, MD, organized an unscheduled Deans’ Hour, a space in the curriculum created to provide a formal lecture… Read More

    Apr. 1, 2024

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    VUSM recognizes 2023 award winners

    Class Day 2023 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Langford Auditorium Vanderbilt University Photo: Anne Rayner Each spring, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes members of the graduating MD class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental… Read More

    May. 11, 2023

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    Moving ever forward: M1 Russell Stewart envisions medical future

    Though his family has a long history at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Russell O. Stewart Jr. keeps his focus on the future in an ever-changing field By: Lexie Little In 1920, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine sat at the intersection of present-day Fifth Avenue and… Read More

    Oct. 3, 2022

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    Annual Anatomical Donation Program service honors donors, families

    By: Lexie Little Each year, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine community gathers to honor the memories of those who donated to the Anatomical Donation Program, which allows medical students to explore the intricacies of the human body. Families, friends, students, faculty, and staff gathered in Langford Auditorium… Read More

    Aug. 26, 2022

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    Connecting through service

    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine M3 Thomas Ueland connects with patients, peers, and people in need By: Lexie Little Thomas Ueland Approximately 157.5 miles from third-year medical student Thomas Ueland’s hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, sits the merged mining towns of Fleming-Neon. Rains ravaged Neon in early August, flooding businesses, homes,… Read More

    Aug. 25, 2022

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    Thank you, Dr. President: M4 Leland Dunwoodie

    After four years serving as the Council of Class Officers president for the MD Class of 2022, Leland Dunwoodie reflects on his VUSM community By: Lexie Little For graduating students, the weeks leading to commencement mark a time of great excitement and anticipation of the future. And while that common… Read More

    Apr. 27, 2022