Residency Program
Letter from Family Medicine Recruiting Chiefs
Dear Applicant,
As this year’s Recruiting Chiefs, please let us be the first to extend a thank you for your consideration of our exceptional residency program.
As residents in our second year, we have found this program to be very strong in multiple aspects. The teaching and educational experience offered by our academic medical center in a community setting is unparalleled. While on various rotations, we benefit from one-on-one interaction with attendings who are always eager to teach and answer questions. The knowledge of our top-notch faculty is as broad as their professional interests. They are very approachable and care about the residents not only from an educational standpoint but from a personal standpoint as well. Our curriculum is well designed and allows for individualization according to each resident’s professional interests. Whether you are interested in rural medicine, sports medicine, emergency medicine, becoming a hospitalist, or any other aspect of family medicine, you will have ample elective time for additional training.
Our residents come from various walks of life and backgrounds. There is an even distribution of married and single residents and the camaraderie is exceptional. We spend time together outside of the workplace, doing anything from going out to dinner to hiking in the Smokies to participating in a community softball league. Additionally, we have a social committee to assist in planning monthly activities. Interacting as a group of residents feels less like work and more like a second family.
So why choose to live in the city of Knoxville? Knoxville is the perfect moderately sized city, home to the University of Tennessee. College students obviously love the endless possibilities of things to do no matter what the season. There are an endless amount of things to do outside of residency. Many of our residents spend their leisure time participating in community sports, spending time on the lake or in the mountains, attending UT VOLS sporting events (or even the Knoxville Ice Bears and Tennessee Smokies, for those who enjoy professional ice hockey or minor league baseball), or enjoying the night life of Downtown Knoxville in the Old City.
We appreciate your interest in our program and hope that you will look to us as the place you will call home for the next three years! Enjoy the rest of the interview season and we hope to see you soon in Knoxville!
Go Vols!!!
Jonathan Laymance, MD
Ben Huff, MD
Alan Haney, MD
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
University Family Physicians
UT Graduate School of Medicine
UT Medical Center
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, Tennessee 37920-6999
(865) 305-9350
Academic Inquiries:
(865) 305-9352