Vanderbilt School of Medicine Recruitment Brochure

Innovation is ESSENTIAL to medical culture

Medical Innovators Development Program The Medical Innovators Development Program (MIDP) is a four-year M.D. training program tailored to Ph.D.-holding engineers and applied scientists.

The purpose of MIDP is to fill an unmet need for applied physician-engineers who can solve clinical problems by

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translating discoveries in engineering into valuable innovations that improve the lives of patients. MIDP’s mission is to improve human health by transforming Ph.D. leaders into empathic physician innovators.

VUMC consistently ranks among the nation’s top accredited medical schools

Innovative physician-engineers who understand clinical medicine, as well as biomedical design, are critical to achieving more than incremental change.

The MIDP is the School of Medicine’s first step in a broader effort to bridge the gaps between academia, industry, and health.

MIDP Core Values • Challenge the status quo • Respect and encourage all voices • Human connection over data • Curiosity • Embrace uncertainty

Vanderbilt’s MIDP provides both a unique opportunity to apply my engineering skills to the solution of outstanding medical problems and the training necessary to realize those solutions in the clinical environment.

–Hunter Sceats, Ph.D. Graduate School: Colorado School of Mines, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Why MIDP? There is no denying that technology plays a more central role every day in our health care system. Trained physician-engineers with the ability to face and overcome clinical challenges through innovation will be critical to the continued improvement of health care. Just as the physician-scientist can direct her knowledge of basic science to tackle important clinically relevant questions, the physician-engineer can apply her translational knowledge to uncover innovative and practical solutions.

Fully Funded Scholarship

40% of MIDP Students are Women

Admissions The Vanderbilt MIDP is a four-year Ph.D. to M.D. training program at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine that seeks to matriculate an energetic cohort of students who wish to transform health and health care through medical innovation.

Successful applicants will have completed Ph.D. programs in engineering or applied science prior to medical school matriculation and demonstrated excellence, creativity, innovation, and perseverance.

They will also have exceptional maturity, leadership, and teamwork capabilities.

Please explore our website to learn more about the exciting, stimulating, and comprehensive training provided by the Vanderbilt MIDP. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Completion of Ph.D.

Completion of MCAT

Background in Engineering/ Applied Sciences

Innovator

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center was named a leader in LGBTQ healthcare equality for the 6th year in a row Apply We invite you to apply for this exciting program. To begin the MIDP application process, you must change your AMCAS program to “Other Special Program.”

Please note that the MIDP admissions process is on an accelerated time scale to allow MIDP candidates who are not accepted to MIDP to move their applications to the regular M.D. admissions process. Thank you for considering this exciting new program.

I’m passionate about engineering/ technology innovation applied to global health. This program and institution bring interdisciplinary capabilities and expertise under one unified mission to help me achieve my goals.

–Sai Rajagopalan, Ph.D. Graduate School: The Ohio State University, Mechanical Engineering

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Adult Hospital in TN and Metro Nashville

MIDP Curriculum Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Curriculum 2.0 offers the opportunity to provide specialized content across the clinical immersion years. Vanderbilt MIDP students comprise a small cohort of students who acquire individualized, generalized content in intellectual property, entrepreneurship, management, and the FDA regulatory process. MIDP includes several unique features incorporated into Curriculum 2.0 and emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration with faculty expertise across the medical, engineering, and business schools.

Our curriculum is designed to be flexible and responsive to feedback from students and faculty.

1. Weekly Innovation Forums 2. Innovation Activism integrated with second-year clinical rotations 3. Innovation Design Experience and Application (IDEA) Laboratory—12 weeks in third year 4. Business and Entrepreneurship course

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5. Industry Immersion internship 6. Monthly Right Brain Activities 7. Existing courses within Curriculum 2.0

Bold Curriculum 2.0

While working as a medical physicist, I began to recognize the tremendous potential for contributing disruptive technologies in medical imaging by combining my existing expertise as a physicist with training as a physician. No other program resonated with that goal as fully as Vanderbilt’s MIDP. The warmth of the Vanderbilt and MIDP families and the vibrancy of Nashville were icing on the cake and made MIDP the best choice for me.

CURRENT MIDP STUDENTS HAVE PH.D.’S IN: • Biomedical Engineering

• Medical Physics

• Immunology

• Biochemistry

• Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

• Mathematics

• Mechanical Engineering

• Nuclear Engineering

• Cell Biology • Health Policy

• Epidemiology

–Adrian Sanchez, Ph.D. Graduate School: University of Chicago, Medical Physics

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Competencies gained from MIDP curriculum EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

Innovation Forums Innovation Activism IDEA Lab Business and Entrepreneurship Industry Immersion Right Brain Activities Turner Family Center Consultants FDA Series Annual Retreat

Mindful Leadership

Storytelling

Starting a Venture

Design Thinking Navigating FDA

After Graduation By training within a culture of translation, MIDP graduates have the tools to solve problems successfully in health and health care, as well as to function at the interface between disciplines. Our graduates are well positioned to become leaders of medical technology innovation. We anticipate that graduates will take one of four paths after graduation: 1. Residency +/- fellowship to industry leadership 2. Residency +/- fellowship to academic leadership 3. Industry leadership or startup venture 4. Government or foundation leadership To achieve more than incremental change, Vanderbilt’s MIDP trains motivated physician-engineers who understand clinical medicine and biomedical design.

The MIDP is the first step in Vanderbilt’s broader effort to bridge the gaps between academia, industry, and health.

Disruptive Solutions Brilliant Minds

Medical Breakthroughs

Nashville, Vanderbilt’s Hometown Vanderbilt’s hometown of Nashville is a vibrant, engaging city known proudly as “Music City, U.S.A.” Located a little more than a mile from campus, downtown Nashville is consistently hailed by the university’s students, faculty, staff, and visitors as one of the perks of Vanderbilt. From serving as home to the nation’s largest Kurdish population to being named America’s friendliest city many times over, Nashville is a metropolitan place that proudly exudes all of the charm and hospitality one expects from a Southern capital.

Nashville ranks fourth out of 383 metropolitan areas for economic strength, according to the 2018 Economic Strength Rankings published by Policom Corporation. Inclusion on this list means that Nashville has had rapid, consistent growth in size and quality for an extended period of time.

Settled in 1779, Nashville became the permanent state capital in 1843. The city proper is 533 square miles with a population of nearly 655,000. The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses eight counties—Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson—and has a population of 1.6 million.

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Contact MIDP

midp-admissions@vanderbilt.edu Medical Innovators Development Program Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Eskind Family Biomedical Library & Learning Center 2209 Garland Ave. Nashville, TN 37240 @VUmidp To request general information regarding Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, please visit medschool.vanderbilt.edu/md-admissions/request.

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