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Shade Tree Clinic launches new Diagnostic Ultrasound Clinic
Jan. 10, 2023—Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic for underserved and uninsured patients in Nashville extends opportunities for patient care and medical education through a new imaging program, which launched on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. By: Lexie Little To start the new year, students working at Shade Tree Clinic, Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic, initiated a new program to further...
A heart for Vanderbilt: M1 Sydney Nelson reflects, looks forward
Mar. 3, 2022—As she sat in hospital rooms at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as a child, Sydney Nelson dreamed of being a doctor like the faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine By: Lexie Little Sydney Nelson walked into a patient exam room with Dr. Thomas Doyle, the Ann and Monroe Carell Jr. Family...
Airway Management Workshop
Dec. 10, 2018—by Alice Liao The Anesthesia Interest Group (AIG) held an airway management workshop in CELA last Wednesday, introducing first-year medical students to the first part of our ABCs — Airway! The workshop also gave upperclass medical students a chance to review. Anesthesia residents (Drs. Jared Cummings, Katherine Williams, and Simon Martin) taught the basics of...
Cancer Survivorship
Jan. 8, 2018—Last week, the Oncology Interest Group sponsored a talk on Cancer Survivorship and the cardiovascular complications of cancer therapy. For many patients and health care providers, the lasting effects of cancer therapy are often an afterthought during treatment: lost in the workflow of hectic inpatient admissions and emotionally draining outpatient appointments. However, as cancer treatments...
Why I Love Emergency Medicine
Jan. 20, 2016—Hi! I’m Nate, a third-year medical student, and I plan to go into emergency medicine. When you get to medical school, you’ll quickly find out that every specialty, from family medicine to neurosurgery, has stereotypes. Often these are unfair, but most have a grain (or two) of truth to them. The stereotype for EM doctors...