Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Type	Private
Established	1875
Parent institution	Vanderbilt University
Endowment	US$551 million (2007)[1]
Dean	Jeff Balser
Academic staff	2,718 (1,630 full-time, 996 part-time/voluntary, and 92 emeritus)
Students	607 Total
Location	Nashville , Tennessee , United States 36°08′38″N 86°48′04″W / 36.144°N 86.801°W / 36.144; -86.801
Campus	Urban
Website	medschool.vanderbilt.edu

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) is the graduate medical school of Vanderbilt University, a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. The School of Medicine is primarily housed within the Eskind Biomedical Library which sits at the intersection of the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) campuses^[2] and claims several Nobel laureates in the field of medicine. Through the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, VUSM is affiliated with over 60 hospitals and 5,000 clinicians across Tennessee and five neighboring states which manage more than 2 million patient visits each year. As the home hospital of the medical school, VUMC is considered one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and is the primary resource for specialty and primary care in hundreds of adult and pediatric specialties for patients throughout the Mid-South.^[3]