{"id":47842,"date":"2001-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/01\/04\/unmc-chooses-seward-physician-van-vahle-m-d-ascollege-of-medicine-volunteer-faculty-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:53:41","slug":"unmc-chooses-seward-physician-van-vahle-m-d-ascollege-of-medicine-volunteer-faculty-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/01\/04\/unmc-chooses-seward-physician-van-vahle-m-d-ascollege-of-medicine-volunteer-faculty-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC Chooses Seward Physician, Van Vahle, M.D., As\n\nCollege of Medicine Volunteer Faculty of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Seward physician, Van E. Vahle, M.D., tuition money was not enough<\/p>\n

to reimburse the University of Nebraska Medical Center for his education.<\/p>\n

The UNMC graduate, who was named the College of Medicines Volunteer Faculty<\/p>\n

of the Month for October, has spent hours training and mentoring medical<\/p>\n

students.<\/p>\n

“I feel I have a debt to pay,” Dr. Vahle said. “(Volunteer teaching)<\/p>\n

is something I can do for education.”<\/p>\n

No matter what field of medicine his students go into, Dr. Vahle enjoys<\/p>\n

the time spent with them. He has noticed a trend with many of the residents<\/p>\n

he advises, however. “There have been some instances where the students<\/p>\n

come back to Seward (Neb.) and practice with us,” he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Vahle attended UNMC from 1966 to 1970 and then interned with a focus<\/p>\n

in obstetrics from 1970 to 1971, before moving to Seward to start a family<\/p>\n

practice. He has been a volunteer faculty member for UNMC for almost eight<\/p>\n

years.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Vahle is a much sought after clinical teacher by the UNMC medical<\/p>\n

students. He expects high performance from his students and in turn provides<\/p>\n

excellent mentorship and teaching,” said Michael Sitorius, M.D., chairman<\/p>\n

of the department of family medicine at UNMC.<\/p>\n

He currently is chief of medical staff for the Memorial Health Care<\/p>\n

Systems and the laboratory director of the Seward Family Medical Center.<\/p>\n

He uses every opportunity to teach students about family practice.<\/p>\n

“The most exciting thing about small-town family medicine is that the<\/p>\n

people we take care of are also the people we live with,” said Dr. Vahle,<\/p>\n

who has been in family practice for 30 years. “Theyre our friends. I take<\/p>\n

care of the grandparents in a family, and I also deliver their grandchildren.<\/p>\n

I like to show the students an all-encompassing family approach. We take<\/p>\n

the families from the cradle to the grave.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Vahle has no doubts about teaching his students the routine of small-town<\/p>\n

family medicine. “I felt it was the right thing to do,” he said.<\/p>\n

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