Departmental Welcome | Eric G. Neilson, M.D. and
John Sergent, M.D |
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Welcome to the website for the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. The Department was established in 1925 following a reorganization of the School of Medicine and our program has been producing distinguished physicians and scientists for 83 years. The Department of Medicine has 585 faculty assigned to 12 traditional divisions and several interdisciplinary research centers. 126 residents and 292 fellows and graduate students are in training in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt. By the end of 2009, the clinical faculty will have seen approximately 450,000 outpatients and admitted nearly 16,000 patients to University Hospital and the on-campus Nashville Veterans Affairs Hospital. The Department also has a diverse research portfolio currently supported by $140,000,000 of annual funding. In 2008 it was ranked 5th in NIH funding for research among all Departments of Medicine in US medical schools. The Department also has a leadership role in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with proximate medical services at Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center on campus. One of our prize assets is superb Division leadership. From this group springs the Department's highest academic standards emphasizing the traditional values of patient care, knowledge seeking, diversity, mentorship, and professionalism. Academic departments of medicine in research-intensive medical schools are complex organisms. Their faculty must serve patient care and biomedical discovery with unrestrained excellence. Amidst this complexity, departments must also seek new ways to mentor young learners and developing faculty. This requires a collaborative and outwardly directed organization functioning in partnership with its members. Optimism and measured success are remarkable strengths of our Vanderbilt faculty. The internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt is rigorous, but is also fun. The sense of camaraderie among the housestaff and between the housestaff and the faculty is the one thing cited most often by Vanderbilt residents when asked about the program. We attract a diverse group of residents from many medical schools, but the environment is one that facilitates the development of close friendships among the residents and their families. On learning more about our residency in internal medicine or medicine-pediatrics, we hope you will apply to our program for internship. Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of help.
Eric G. Neilson, M.D.
Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief, Vanderbilt University Hospital
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John Sergent, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Program Director |
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