The
Urology Residency Program, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee is
located on the Memphis Campus of the University of Tennessee.The University of Tennessee undergraduate
campus is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, 375 miles east of Memphis.The UT Memphis campus consists of those
colleges related to healthcare:the
Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Allied Health.The Urology Residency Program currently is a
five-year program consisting of 12 months of pre-urology (general surgery and
electives) and 48 months of clinical urology.The urology residents are exposed to urologic research (both clinical
and basic science) throughout their 48 months of training.
The
educational philosophy of the department is that resident and medical student
teaching is of the highest priority and that this teaching should occur
primarily in the context of active clinical experience in a variety of patient
care settings which expose residents to the full spectrum of urologic
disease.The education of the resident
should be sufficiently structured to gradually increase the resident's
responsibility for more complex aspects of urologic care as skills are
developed, so that graduating senior residents are fully competent in the
medical and surgical aspects of urology.It is further our philosophy that the education should take place in an
environment that both exposes the residents to modern clinical and scientific
advances in urology (through conferences and reading assignments) and in an
environment where residents are exposed to and participate in urologic research
so that they become critical analysts of data imbued with healthy skepticism.With this philosophy and exposure, we expect
our graduating residents to, at a minimum, be fully competent in the medical
and surgical aspects of urologic disease and to be eager life-long learners of
the science and art of urology.It is
our philosophy that urologic education should take place in an environment
where the faculty role models compassionately demonstrate the art, as well as
the science, of medicine.
The general goals of the teaching program are to produce residents with
the specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for modern urology
practice.Throughout the educational
program, residents are required to develop and demonstrate skills of patient
care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal
and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.Our goal is to ensure that each resident
masters the educational program which will be accomplished through the
implementation of a fully developed curriculum that effectively utilizes the
skills of a highly qualified and experienced faculty, the available patient
population, and all the participating institutions and resources.
