Gratitude

Thank you to everyone for making this Fall Semester of 2022 a success! VPIL 1 welcomed new preceptors to the program, and special thanks to preceptors Dr. Jennifer Green and Dr. Blair Miller for graciously stepping in and taking VPIL 2 teams who needed clinic placement for the academic year.

Curricular Updates

VPIL 1 students completed their home visits, and preceptors will receive a synthesis and recommendation letter from the student team on January 4th. This writing should reflect the concerns identified from the visit. We hope this document will begin a dialog on improving care for the patient and family. Hopefully, this experience will give students a perspective on short and long-term patient advocacy.

VPIL 2 students have been working on the design of their Capstone projects. We are asking students to examine a small-scale change that can give back to their clinic site. We are using the materials for quality improvement from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. VPIL Capstone coaches have been meeting with their students throughout the semester to discuss the progress of their projects.

VPIL 1 students will return to clinics on Wednesday, January 4th. Students will be in seminar on January 18th. At this semiar, we will host a Professionals Panel where students will hear from a variety of different healthcare professionals. During the spring semester, students will be asked to perform a medication reconciliation as part of an assignment due on February 12th. The student-team project for the semester is on Patient Advocacy and will be introduced at the first seminar.

VPIL 2 students will also return to clinics on Wednesday, January 4th. The semester will focus on continuing their project and creating an academic poster for presentation at the Capstone event. Capstone is scheduled for April 12th. Students will be in seminar on January 11th for a simulation on health insurance. The exercise is designed to simulate the experience of designing and purchasing health insurance.

Preceptor Spotlight

VPIL would like to thank Dr. Mark Glazer for leading a student team and his valuable contributions to the program as a preceptor. Dr. Glazer will be retiring from his practice at Vanderbilt Heart at the end of the year.

Dr. Henry Jennings will be stepping in for Dr. Glazer and taking our VPIL 2 student team who will continue at Vanderbilt Heart seeing patients with cardiology concerns while completing their Capstone project. Welcome to VPIL, Dr. Jennings!

Immersion Continuation

In September, the faculty hosted an in-person continuation of VPIL Immersion, a rooftop gathering overlooking Nashville providing a setting for student-teammates to learn about each other and their experiences as students in different professions outside the pressures of the clinical or classroom environment.

We hope to continue with this two-part Immersion implementation that provides the interpersonal bonding that forms the foundation of VPIL team learning and the students' working and learning relationships.

Nexus Summit 2022

Congratulations to the Vanderbilt Familiar Faces Clinic team of Hayley Berry, Claire Dzierzak, Kyle McCurry, and Alex Miller, who won the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) team award for interprofessional collaborative practice at the Nexus Summit 2022! The conference is dedicated to linking health professionals education and interprofessional workforces.

This recoginition stems from the team's Capstone poster, "Implementation of Social Support Groups for Medically and Socially Complex Patients." Special thanks to Dr. Blair Miller for precepting this student team throughout the creation of this project.

Alumni News

VPIL alumni Shreyas Krishnapura (first from right) and friends help save one of their own, a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.

The group of classmates were featured in the VUMC Reporter recounting their story and the actions they took to provide care for their friend and classmate.

You can read the full article here.

Med Student's Life Saved By Classmates

CME/CEU Credit

For many preceptors, precepting hours may count towards CME/CEU credit. The VPIL Office can provide you with a certified VPIL Preceptorship confirmation letter with approved hours in any given academic year. Please contact The VPIL Office at vpil@vanderbilt.edu for more information.

Visit the Preceptor Portal on our website! The portal includes an overview of the program, what the students are learning, what to expect while being a preceptor, and much more!

Preceptor Portal