University of Tennessee College of Medicine

University of Tennessee
College of Medicine
Established 1911
Type Public medical school
Parent institution
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Dean Steve J. Schwab, M.D.
Academic staff
945 Total
745 full-time
200 part-time
Students 671
Location Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Campus Urban
Affiliations University of Tennessee system
AAMC
Website http://www.uthsc.edu/medicine/

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine is one of six graduate schools of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in downtown Memphis. The oldest public medical school in Tennessee, the UT College of Medicine is a LCME-accredited member of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and awards graduates of the four-year program Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees. The college's primary focus is to provide practicing health professionals for the state of Tennessee.

History

The history of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine involves several institutional mergers. The Nashville Medical College was founded in 1876 and acquired by the University of Tennessee three years later. The Nashville Medical College moved to Memphis in 1911 and merged with the College of Physicians and Surgeons to become the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Following a number of mergers with the biological science, nursing, and dental departments, the then-named University of Tennessee Medical Units was renamed the University of Tennessee Health Science Center during the tenure of Dr. Edmund Pellegrino.

Today, the Humphrey's General Education Building (GEB) stands on the corner of Madison Avenue and Dunlap street, where Lindsley Hall formerly housed the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The oldest surviving building (built in 1926) of the current UTHSC campus is the Wittenborg Anatomy Building, named after Dr. August H. Wittenborg.[1]

In 2012, Steve Schwab announced UTHSC aims to develop more clinical experiences for students in internal medicine, surgery, surgical sub-specialties (e.g., Anesthesiology and Radiology), family medicine, emergency medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology at UTHSC affiliate hospitals in 2013.[2] A partnership with Saint Thomas Health subsequently expanded from one Internal Medicine Residency Program, established in 1982, to include affiliate programs in Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine.

Facilities

The University of Tennessee Medical Center Heart Lung Vascular Institute in Knoxville, TN

The College of Medicine is affiliated with a number of teaching hospitals in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center forms the backbone of the Memphis Medical District and is closely affiliated with several medical units:

The Chattanooga campus of the College of Medicine is closely affiliated with Erlanger Health System. In Knoxville, the University of Tennessee Medical Center is home to the UT Graduate School of Medicine, the largest of the nine (AAMC) Graduate Regional Medical Centers in the Southeast United States.[3]

Nashville UTHSC affiliates include Saint Thomas West, Saint Thomas Midtown and Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospitals.[4] Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital is the home of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. An Emergency Medicine Residency Program and a Family Medicine Residency Program are both based at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital.

UT medical students spend their first two years in Memphis completing basic science coursework prior to taking the USMLE Step 1. Students then perform clinical rotations at these facilities on the Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville campuses for third and fourth year clerkships.[5]

Research

The UTHSC Cancer Research Building, located on the corner of Madison Ave and S Mannassas St in Memphis, TN

Residency programs

The College of Medicine offers several Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education residency programs located at four fully integrated statewide campuses:

Highlights

References

  1. Hershel P. Wall, MD. "A brief history of the UT College of Medicine". Retrieved October 7, 2010.
  2. UTHSC Alumni and Friends. "Training Program partnership expands". UTHSCALUMNI.COM. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. "UTCOM Fact Sheet" (PDF). Uthsc.edu. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  4. "UTHSC Nashville". UTHSC College of Medicine Nashville Residency. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  5. "Office of the Executive Dean". Uthsc.edu. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  6. "UTHSC Research Centers Info". Uthsc.edu. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  7. "Report on UTHSC RBL-3" (PDF). Uthsc.edu. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  8. "CRB fact sheet" (PDF). Uthsc.edu. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  9. "Research". UTHSC Nashville Internal medicine. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  10. "Research". UTHSC Nashville Family Medicine. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  11. "UTGSM Viewbook" (PDF). Gsm.utmck.edu. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  12. "UTHSC Nashville". UT College of Medicine Nashville Residency. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  13. Hecht, Francis; "Ig Nobel prizes hail 'digital rectal massage'", New Scientist, 6 October 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  14. "UTHSC report of Steve Job's liver transplant". Retrieved October 10, 2010.

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