About UTGSM

Quick Facts

• The GSM has a four-fold mission of excellence in education, research, service and patient care
  
• GSM employees number around 500 with over 200 faculty and 170 residents
  
• Residency and Fellowship Programs are offered in Medicine and Dentistry/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  
• The Primary Care residency programs include Family Medicine, Internal Medicine , Obstetrics & Gynecology
  
• The remaining medicine programs include Anesthesiology, General Surgery , Nuclear Medicine , Pathology, Radiology , Transitional Year, and Urology
  
• Fellowships are offered through the Departments of Family Medicine, Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology
  
• Family Medicine Fellowships include Emergency Medicine, Sports Medicine, Behavioral Medicine, Obstetrics, and in conjunction with the Department of Medicine, a Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine
  
• The Department of Medicine offers a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease. The Department will offer a fellowship in Pulmonary Disease beginning July 2008
  
• Surgery offers fellowships in both Vascular Surgery and Trauma/Critical Care
  
• The Department of Pathology offers a fellowship in Cytopathology and Surgical Pathology, and is in the process of offering a fellowship in Forensic Pathology
  
• The Department of Radiology offers educational opportunities in PET
  
• Residencies are offered in General Dentistry as well as Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  
• Eight academic departments participate in the Comparative and Experimental Medicine Graduate Program along with the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Microbiology offering both master's and doctoral degrees
  
• The UT Genetics Center is the only genetics center in the 16 counties of the middle East Tennessee region; it is the metabolic center for the 34 counties of East Tennessee and serves as the sickle cell center for middle and upper East Tennessee
  
• Six major GSM Offices work as a consortium to enhance educational endeavors and meet the challenges of medical and dental education. These six offices are Graduate Medical Education (GME), Office of Communications and Outreach, Student Affairs, Preston Medical Library, Information Technology, and the Office of Business and Finance
  
• The Office of Student Affairs oversees M3 students from Memphis who complete several clerkships at the GSM as well as M4 students from across the nation elect to do rotations in several specialties.
  
• Office of Communications and Outreach offers programs to health care professionals throughout the region and nationally
  
• Preston Medical Library provides support to all physicians, dentists, and biomedical researchers in the region as well as patient/consumer health education for the general public.
  
• Both clinical and academic components of the Department of Family Medicine reside within the GSM.
  
• Research initiatives fall into the categories of (1) Neurodegenerative Diseases, (2) Cancer, and (3) Heart, Lung, Vascular Disorders with (4) Imaging Research playing a significant role in both neurology and cancer.
  
• Researchers involved in these initiatives complete most of their work through federal grants and oftentimes in collaboration with the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine and/or Oak Ridge National Laboratories
  
• The Graduate School of Medicine is part of the University of Tennessee and is one of the components of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga). The GSM conducts its clinical activities in the separately-owned University of Tennessee Memorial Hospital and combined they are called the University of Tennessee Medical Center.