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Chattanooga, Tennessee
First Emergency Medicine Residency Graduating Class Achieves100% Pass Rate on Written (Part I) Examination of the ABEM Certification Examination
David C. Seaberg, MD, FACEP, Dean of the University of Tennessee of Medicine Chattanooga and President of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and James H. Creel, MD, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, are pleased to announce that all six of the first graduating class (June 2011) have passed the written examination (Part I) of the American Board of Emergency Medicine Certification Examination:
First time pass rates are a key external metric by which the accrediting body, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), measure the quality of residency programs.
The Emergency Medicine Residency in Chattanooga is the only EM Residency in the statewide University of Tennessee Graduate Medical Education System. It received initial accreditation in February 2008, and these six physicians began training on July 1, 2008.
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga is part of the statewide academic health system: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The Chattanooga campus is separately accredited by the ACGME to sponsor residency and fellowship programs in a variety of specialties. The primary clinical affiliated institution is Erlanger Health System. For more information about the UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, visit: www.utcomchatt.org, or email lizjones@uthsc.edu.
As the flagship statewide academic health system, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is to bring the benefits of the health sciences to the achievement and maintenance of human health, with a focus on the citizens of Tennessee and the region, by pursuing an integrated program of education, research, clinical care, and public service. In 2011, UT Health Science Center celebrates its centennial: 100 years advancing the future of health care. Offering a broad range of postgraduate training opportunities, the main UTHSC campus is located in Memphis and includes six colleges: Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. The UTHSC campus in Knoxville includes a College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, and an Allied Health Sciences unit. In addition, the UTHSC Chattanooga campus includes a College of Medicine and an Allied Health Sciences unit. Since its founding in 1911, UTHSC has educated and trained more than 53,000 health care professionals on campuses and in health care facilities across the state. For more information, visit www.uthsc.edu.
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