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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Could be better / could be worse - Regional Study Coordinator Vanderbilt University Medical Center Employee Review

3.0
Jul 23, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good people (depending on the team and department), ok work-life balance. Good place to start your career.

Cons

Over the past few years, they have been reducing the quality and number of benefits (higher insurance premiums for plans that don't cover much, no longer offering child's tuition benefit or employee tuition reimbursement unless hired before 2019, reduction in the number of PTO - sick days). No career growth perspective and extremely low pay. Management pretends the low pay is fair and claims every VUMC employee in the same position with the same experience is paid the same. This is not true (as learned from friends working in other departments). How HR comes up with salary quotes is a mystery. This process is not transparent. CREDO is preached by leaders though not often followed. Lack of clear communication from upper management. Very hard to come across good leaders, though there are some.

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Pros

Great benefits and work environment

Cons

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4.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

Your experience is determined by your PI. Most of the enjoyment I get from my job comes from the people I work with, and the grad students and post-docs above me have been receptive to tailoring my responsibilities to allow me to gain experience in the areas I want more expertise in. They are very understanding that working as a RA is temporary, and most use it to use it as a resume builder. Health care benefits are good.

Cons

The pay isn't great, and there isn't much opportunity for growth within the lab unless you want and can become a lab manager. While I have had opportunities to doing more meaningful analysis and experimental design (after I asked for it), often my responsibilities are repetitive tasks or procedures that the graduate students or post-docs didn't want to do.

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