The Brittingham Society connects former Medicine housestaff and fellows from Vanderbilt for friendship and professional exchange in an alumni community. The Society gathers in even-numbered years for a reunion, which includes a banquet, scientific sessions, and tours of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We hope you will use this web site to stay in touch with those with whom you trained – and that you’ll plan to come back for the next reunion in October 2008! History of the Brittingham Society Tom Brittingham, who was Vanderbilt’s first Director of the Residency Program, taught us the human side of medicine through the compassion and respect that he had for each of his patients. Following in Dr. Brittingham’s footsteps, John Leonard carried forward the traditions of the “good doctor,” as the director of the Internal Medicine residency training program from 1983–2004. Today, John Sergent directs the residency program and continues to anchor the program’s values in patient care. In the 1990s, several of Dr. Brittingham’s former trainees created the Vanderbilt Society of Internal Medicine to help each other keep those values alive and to connect former housestaff. The society was later renamed the Brittingham Society and expanded to include those who trained as fellows in the Department of Medicine. (Source: Roger DePrez’s comments from memorial service for Dr. Brittingham at VU Housestaff reunion, September 1987 – with thanks to Charles Mayes)