Models

Vision 2020 -- Conceived by Dr. Harry Jacobson, Vanderbilt Medical Center Vice Chancellor for Health Affaris, Vision 2020 aims to set as a collective goal for the medical center "to make change, to make things better, to have a measurable impact” on the health of Middle Tennessee. [More about Vision 2020]

Vanderbilt Center for Better Health -- The mission of the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health (VCBH) is to accelerate change in health care. Through methods that employ DesignShops and iterative Cycles of Work, and a state-of-the-art Innovation Center, the VCBH convenes diverse stakeholders for critical path planning, provides methods for reducing time to results, conducts research through demonstration projects and supports active learning through events that bring in facts during solution design. [Watch a video describing the workflow process]. 

Eskind Biomedical Library Internship -- In 1996, EBL developed a model training program to prepare current and future health sciences librarians for roles that are integrated into the diverse fabric of the health care professions. Addressing the changing nature of the profession and its relationship to the delivery of health care is “essential if health sciences librarians are to remain indispensable members of the health field and continue to provide high levels of service to the public health”. Although the health sciences library remains the central conduit of biomedical information, the role of the librarian within the institution is no longer confined to the library. As a result, roles for health sciences librarians are expanding in four broad areas: 1) production of information resources; 2) development of information infrastructure; 3) education; and 4) data management. [More about the EBL Internship Program]