Mission Statement
The Department of Surgery provides surgical education by delivering the highest quality patient care, teaching and research.
Departmental Objectives
- Ensure surgical care of the highest quality in all surgical specialties
- Expand regional and national awareness of UT Medical Center as a center of surgical excellence
- Maintain and expand the quality of the faculty, by promoting faculty development in areas of excellence, both clinical and academic, and maintain a structure for the department and its faculty to recognize the achievement of personal and departmental goals
- Develop a departmental structure to assure financial support for the academic and clinical functions of the department and its faculty, and to assure equal rewards for academic and clinical productivity
- Develop cooperative clinical research and educational programs within the department divisions, with other departments, and with other regional/national institutions
- Deliver academic and clinical training to mold residents into leaders and quality surgeons in any practice setting they encounter
- Select and nurture faculty members with a commitment to education as their highest priority
- Maintain the surgical residency at current levels, and ensure that subspecialty and fellowship training only enhance the general surgery experience
- Establish strong surgical outreach programs in East Tennessee
- Advocate health and safety issues in the region
- Control the destiny of the department during the reorganization processes occurring at UT Medical Center, in the Graduate Medical School, and the regional economic environment
- Encourage careers in surgery in high school, college and medical students
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