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Pulmonary Disease Fellowship

 

Introduction to the Fellowship Program

We are delighted that you are interested in the Pulmonary Disease Fellowship Program at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. We look forward to discussing the University's program with you and invite you to visit Knoxville for an in-depth look at an outstanding educational program.

Program Strengths:

  • The fellowship program is an integral part of the UTGSM Medicine program that has been in existence since 1956, with continued full accreditation since its inception. The UTGSM program has over 170 residents and fellows training in 10 ACGME accredited core residency programs and four ACGME accredited subspecialty fellowship programs.

  • UTGSM provides fellows with an excellent support system, including nursing, pharmacy, library, laboratory, nutritional support, social workers, consultative support from subspecialists, and an excellent Resident Assistance Program. The University of Tennessee Medical Center has state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities with an electronic medical record system, the CoPath pathology information system, and the PACS radiology information system.

  • UTGSM is minutes away from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, main campus and has the resources of this large institution at its disposal. UTGSM has a close working relationship with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. Teachers and researchers at UTGSM collaborate and share facilities with colleagues at the prestigious University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine (in Knoxville) and Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

  • UTGSM draws patients from a large geographic area in East Tennessee, southeast Kentucky, northwest North Carolina, and western Virginia. University of Tennessee Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma Center, with three helicopters providing transport of critically ill patients, including numerous acute myocardial infarction patients. Due to the tertiary referral nature of the university program, a large number of patients with a broad spectrum of clinical pathologies are available for both clinical experience and research studies.

  • The fellowship faculty practice, University Pulmonary and Critical Care is located in offices connected to the hospital and is part of the University of Tennessee Medical Center's Heart Lung Vascular Institute (HLVI). Set to open in 2010 is the UT Heart Hospital, a $26 million four-story building to provide expanded inpatient hospital services fo the UT Medical Center's HLVI.

  • The volume of pulmonary procedures performed annually at UT Medical Center, in both the hospital and clinic, is substantial, with over:
    • 600 bronchoscopies, including diagnostic and interventional procedures
    • 1,500 spirometrics
    • 900 spirometrics, pre/post BD
    • 2,000 DLCOs
    • 1,400 lung volumes
    • 100 methacholine challenges
    • 20 cardiopulmonary exercise stress tests
    • 32,000 blood gases
    • 600,000 respiratory therapy procedures
    • 1,200 sleep studies
    • Multiple critical care procedures including over 250 venous/arterial access procedures; percutaneous tracheostomies; and chest thoracostomies. In addition, multiple rest and exercise oximetrics are performed on almost all clinic patients.

  • The UT Medical Center has a well-equipped eight-bed sleep laboratory and sleep clinic. Two of the pulmonary disease fellowship key clinical faculty, including the program director, are board-certified in sleep medicine



The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

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Box U-114
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone (865) 305-6324
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