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Educational Support
Endowed Lectureships
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Overview of
Vanderbilt Surgical Residency Programs
The graduate educational programs in Surgery and the Surgical Specialties at Vanderbilt University provide residents with rotations at three area hospitals. The three hospitals, designated the “Vanderbilt University Integrated Hospitals,” consist of the 661-bed Vanderbilt University Hospital, the nearby 233-bed Nashville Veterans Affairs Hospital, and the 571-bed Saint Thomas Hospital. Each of these hospitals is integrated with the teaching and training programs of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Each surgical service is supervised by staff members at the several hospitals who are full-time faculty members of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Surgical training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center prepares residents for careers as academic surgeons. The Vanderbilt Section of Surgical Sciences offers ACGME-approved residency programs in General Surgery (James A. O'Neill, Jr., M.D., Director), Surgical Critical Care and Trauma (Addison May, M.D., Director), Vascular Surgery (Thomas C. Naslund, M.D., Director), Neurological Surgery (George S. Allen, M.D., Ph.D., Director), Plastic Surgery (R. Bruce Shack, M.D., Director), Thoracic Surgery (Joe B. Putnam, Jr., M.D., Director), and Urologic Surgery (Joseph A. Smith, Jr., M.D., Director). The Section also offers American Dental Association-approved residencies in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Samuel J. McKenna, D.D.S., M.D., Director), General Practice Dentistry (Walter Colón, D.M.D., Director), and Orthodontics (Harry L. Legan, D.D.S., Director).
Educational Support
The integrated hospitals of the Vanderbilt Surgical Residency Program offer a wide variety of teaching conferences in all major surgical specialties. Conferences are well attended by faculty, residents, and medical students.
In pursuit of excellent instruction, the Section of Surgical Sciences has developed nine endowed chairs:
General Surgery
- John Clinton Foshee
- H. William Scott, Jr.
- Paul W. Sanger (Experimental Surgery)
- John L. Sawyers
- Ingram Professor of Surgical Sciences
- Lester and Sara Jayne Williams Chair in Academic Surgery
Urologic Surgery
Neurological Surgery
Cardiac Surgery
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Endowed Lectureships
In addition, through endowed lectureships at Vanderbilt and Saint Thomas Hospital, the Vanderbilt Section of Surgical Sciences offers residents the expertise of a greater number of recognized leaders in the surgical specialties:
The Barney Brooks Lectureship in General Surgery
The L.W. Edwards Lectureship in General Surgery
The J. Lynwood Herrington Lectureship in General Surgery
The W. Andrew Dale Lectureship in Vascular Surgery
The Cully Cobb Lectureship in Neurological Surgery
The George W. Holcomb Lectureship in Pediatric Surgery
The Charles J. Thuss Lectureship in Plastic Surgery
The Norman E. Shumway, Jr. Lectureship in Transplantation
The Rhamy-Shelley Lectureship in Urologic Surgery
The Rollin A. Daniel, Jr. Lectureship in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery
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