Medical Education - Residency Program
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The Department
of Anesthesiology at the University of Tennessee Graduate School
of Medicine has trained resident physicians in anesthesiology for
over five decades. Our educational goal is to train physicians
who, upon completion of the residency, are superb clinical anesthesiologists
who easily achieve board certification in our specialty. Anesthesiology
training is based on progressive clinical responsibility with careful
supervision to maintain patient safety and resident support.
The caseload of our Level
1 trauma center provides a broad-based clinical experience.
Anesthesiology training at UTMCK begins with a one-month long indoctrination. This allows for a gradual introduction to our specialty and allows our faculty to select cases ideally suited to each beginning resident. Residents then start basic rotations in clinical anesthesia before moving on to more advanced rotations and electives.
Didactic activities occur daily in the anesthesiology
residency training program at UTMCK. Weekly academic activities
include separate CA1 and CA2 core lecture series, mock oral examinations,
case conference/grand rounds, and written board review.
In addition, individual anesthesia simulator training, problem-based
learning discussions, an objective structured clinical examination
utilizing the difficult airway algorithm, Chairman's Conference,
CA-3 transition to practice seminar sessions and journal club at
one of our area restaurants add great value to our educational activities.
Numerous
changes to the program have occurred in the past several
years which have further improved the excellent training our residents
receive. Indeed, our faculty are very proud of the ongoing
research activities and publications at
UTMCK. Our residents have the opportunities to work closely
with faculty dedicated first and foremost to clinical care and resident
education. In addition, we are fortunate to work in one of
the most collegial working environments in the United States.
 Both our residents and faculty have talents and
interests in areas outside of the hospital environment. When
clinical duties are concluded, our faculty and residents are often
found wake boarding on our beautiful lakes or mountain biking over
the "whoop-de-doo" single-track trails of the Smokies.
Knoxville and the surrounding
areas offer numerous recreational activities which includes golf,
tennis, boating, hiking, rock climbing and most importantly, college
football. The excitement emanating from 108,000 orange-clad
fans screaming their support of the Tennessee Volunteers is truly
contagious.
Graduates
of our training program are confident, experienced and truly ready
for whatever challenges they encounter in our field of medicine.
Many continue their training in fellowships at other institutions
such as the Mayo Clinic, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center or Virginia
Mason. The rest enter private practice in the Southeast or
scattered across the United States. Since the majority of
the surgical staff at UTMCK are physicians in private practice,
our graduates are uniquely prepared to make the transition from
residency training to private practice. If you are interested
in obtaining superb anesthesiology training among exceptional colleagues,
I hope you consider our Residency as part of your anesthesiology
experience.
Please visit the below link for information on the The University of Tennessee Residents Alliance, which is a social organization for the spouses of UT residents and fellows.
http://gsm.utmck.edu/utra/index.htm
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