Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Please join us in congratulating second-year Master of Public Health student Youstina Tadros on being named one of twenty nationwide recipients of the Winston Health Policy Scholarship.

Given by the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship, this scholarship recognizes recipients for their excellence and achievement based upon their academic record, recommendations from faculty and colleagues, and demonstration of their potential to succeed in health policy at the state or federal level. Congratulations on this much deserved recognition, Youstina!

An afternoon so cool, even Chancellor Diermeier had to stop by! 😎 A huge thank you to medical student affairs and Retro Sno for giving our MD students such a chill study break.🍧

To kick off our , fourth-year Doctor of Audiology students Claire Mitchell, Rachel Page, Helen Bao, and Erin Knight traveled to Kraków, Poland, to provide hearing and balance services to Ukrainian refugees.

Over 10 days this past May, the students and their mentors cared for dozens of patients through vestibular function evaluations, hearing aid fittings, balance disorder treatment, patient education, and teaching them to maintain their hearing aids post-visit.

Click through for a look at their experience!

It’s a summer of service at VUSM! This week, our M1s volunteered serving lunches to members of the Nashville community.

Students: make sure to continue checking your Vanderbilt email this summer for more service opportunities!

In collaboration with Project Sunshine, MD students from VMS Knits and the Surgery Interest Group came together yesterday to create Surgi Dolls. These special teaching tools are used by hospital staff to help explain upcoming surgical procedures to pediatric patients.

All Surgi Dolls crafted by our students will be distributed to Project Sunshine partner hospitals around the country. 🪡🧵

Learn more about Project Sunshine at https://bit.ly/3Qo9UP8

We often talk about the importance of learning outside the classroom. In the Wilderness Medicine elective, students take that idea literally.

Led by emergency medicine physicians Drs. Aubri Charnigo and Mary Kate Jordan, the Wilderness Medicine elective culminated in a two-day backpacking trip where MD students practiced their skills in real-world conditions.

While exploring Savage Gulf, students trained in bleeding control, splinting, patient evacuation from remote and swift-water environments, and managing emergencies such as anaphylaxis, insect and snake bites, and hypo- and hyperthermia, all with limited resources.

Learn more about our MD curriculum and its unique hands-on learning opportunities at https://bit.ly/49x2jnV

As we close out Speech-Language-Hearing Month, we're excited to highlight, Sophie Kaiser a rising second-year MS-SLP student currently on the Autism Spectrum Disorder Track. Through the opportunities offered by the ASD track, Sophie says she has learned about the importance of interdisciplinary and neurodiversity affirming and care and developed a passion for expanding diagnostic services.

Hear more about Sophie's experience at https://bit.ly/4fPnIMU