Fast Facts

  • In 1925, under the leadership of Canby Robinson, a new hospital was built on the main campus and the modern School of Medicine was established.
  • The Department of Medicine is comprised of 13 subspecialty divisions, 29 research centers and over 990 faculty, eight percent of which identify as underrepresented in medicine (URiM).
  • VUMC ranked No. 20 in the 2021-2022 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll. The Department of Medicine had several high performing specialties, including Rheumatology (14), Cardiology (17), Pulmonology and Lung Surgery (17), Geriatrics (27), Diabetes and Endocrinology (31) and Oncology (44).
  • In FY21, Department of Medicine providers delivered care in in 189 hospitals, clinics and dialysis centers throughout Davidson County, and 56 clinics regionally. There were over 850,000 outpatient clinic visits, more than 75,000 telemedicine visits, and over 20,000 inpatient discharges from patients across the United States and surrounding territories.
  • The Department of Medicine received over $300 million in total grant funding, and was ranked No. 2 in NIH funding to academic departments of medicine by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research in NIH FY20. The department’s research portfolio includes 147 awards to individual investigators, 30 career development awards and 17 NIH-funded training grants.
  • The Neilson, Schaffner and Miller professional development societies have been established to support and advance the careers of PhD and MD tenure track faculty, clinician-educator faculty, and full-time clinicians and advance practice providers.
  • Twenty Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, including Department of Medicine Drs. Larry Churchill (1991), Consuleo Wilkins (2020) and Alastair Wood (2006).
  • Eighty-eight VUSM faculty members are fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including 18 in the Department of Medicine.
  • The Department of Medicine has 33 faculty members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
  • There are 26 fellowship programs, including 15 ACGME-accredited programs, in the Department of Medicine. In FY21, the department’s fellowship programs provided specialized training for more than 150 clinical and post-doctoral fellows.
  • The department’s Internal Medicine Residency currently includes 134 Internal Medicine residents, 23 Medicine-Pediatrics residents and 14 preliminary year residents from over 80 medical schools. In FY21, 25% of the resident class self-identified as URiM. Residents recruited in the 2021 Match are 49% women, and 35% have self-identified as URiM; it is the most diverse residency cohort in the department’s history.
  • In FY21, the department received nearly $4.5 million in gifts and more than $6 million in total endowments. Generous contributions support the department’s goals of providing world-class patient care, preforming cutting-edge research and training tomorrow’s health care leaders. Give Here 
  • Six Nobel Laureates are affiliated with Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including Max Delbruck (replication mechanism and genetic structure of viruses), Earl Sutherland Jr. (cyclic AMP), Stanley Cohen (epidermal growth factor) and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, 1971 and 1986, respectively.