Internal Medicine Residency

Our Department of Medicine continues to show an increased commitment to education.  Our residents enjoy a wonderful community, beautiful surroundings, and an excellent academic environment.  Our department sponsors an Internal Medicine Residency Program, as well as a Hospice/Palliative Care Fellowship.  An overview of departmental activities can be viewed here: 

http://www.utcomchatt.org/docs/Year_in_Review.ppt

Internal Medicine Residency Program Highlights

• Ten resident positions at each level of the three-year program
• 100% ABIM pass rate in 2011
• Recent graduates have obtained fellowships in Cardiology, Nephrology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Allergy/Immunology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, and Hematology/Oncology
• Night float experience for all residents
• Comprehensive two-year core curriculum lecture series
• Consistent award-winning resident participation at state, regional, and national scientific meetings
• Numerous benefits (meal allowance; maternity and paternity leave, personal days, paid travel expenses for research / care presentation activities; plentiful and convenient free covered parking; and much more)
• Convenient moonlighting opportunities for PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents
• Careful monitoring of Ambulatory Care Clinic patient population to provide optimal patient volume and an ideal learning environment
• Resident participation in all departmental committee meetings and physician planning meetings resulting in significant resident input and influence regarding program policies
• Community rotations with general internists at multiple locations in Chattanooga, Cleveland, and Dayton, Tennessee
• Affiliation with Erlanger Medical Center, a university-based hospital with 868 licensed beds. This is the region's only Level I Trauma Center) providing primary, secondary, and tertiary medical care to patients from 50 counties within a 150-mile radius of Chattanooga

Educational Benefits

• 91% three-year cumulative American Board of Internal Medicine pass rate
• Comprehensive two year core curriculum lecture series
• Annual emergency management series
• Annual two-month EKG instruction series
• Attendance at daily Morning Report by five to ten subspecialty faculty
• Individualized educational program opportunities with hospitalist and primary care emphasis
• Expanded geriatrics education in concert with the nation's fastest growing PACE Program (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly)
• Monthly Journal Club series with associated didactic curriculum
• Formal instruction in billing and evaluation/management coding
• Structured resident research program with one-on-one faculty mentoring
• Over 50 resident presentations at regional and national conferences during the past year
• Home access to the Erlanger / UT Memphis Medical Libraries with over 400 full text online journals and over 70 leading electronic textbooks

Special Benefits

• Medical Library purchase of board review materials
• On-site MKSAP (Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program)
  14 review sessions for the Internal Medicine Board exam
• Board review sessions conducted during Noon Conference
• Reimbursed professional development expenses for presentations at regional and national meetings and books/journals
• Moonlighting permitted at the 2nd and 3rd levels 
• Five personal days over the three-year period