A Message from the Chairman
Thank you for your interest in the Pediatric and Medicine/Pediatric Programs at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. You are about to embark on your residency, one of the most exciting and challenging periods of your professional life. You are clearly interested in a program that can meet your educational goals and yet allow you to gain experience in the care of children both in sickness and health.
The UT Health Science Center Pediatric Residency Program has trained pediatricians since the 1920's and is dedicated to educating young physicians to become the best pediatricians they can. The Department of Pediatrics is housed in three hospitals located in the medical complex of Memphis, all within a short distance of each other. Two of these hospitals - Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are solely dedicated to the care of children. The third, the Newborn Center of the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, is devoted to the care of neonates. Ambulatory care is provided within the Physician's Office Building at Le Bonheur, at Methodist Germantown Hospital and at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
With a full-time faculty of 155 physicians, the UT Department of Pediatrics is a comprehensive training program, and residents are exposed daily to all pediatric subspecialties, as well as the surgical subspecialties devoted to children.
The house staff training program is carefully designed to provide residents with an educational milieu covering Ambulatory Pediatrics, Development and Behavioral Pediatrics, Neonatology, Acute-Care Inpatient Pediatrics, and Tertiary-Care Pediatrics.
Our goal is to train pediatricians who can enter any of the practice options open to pediatricians such as private practice, public health, fellowship training, subspecialty practice, and academic medicine. New and exciting things are happening in Memphis, as well. Le Bonheur and St. Jude recently completed expansion of facilities which provide new patient care and research space. Among the changes are a new emergency department, pediatric intensive care unit, bone marrow transplant unit and gene therapy unit. We also have a new magnetoencephalographic unit for children with for children with epilepsy, brain tumors and autism.
A total of 120 new faculty members have been recruited since 1988, encompassing disciplines from cardiovascular epidemiology to molecular immunology, from general pediatrics to child neurology, and from bone marrow transplantation to child abuse. This talent has come from all over the nation enhancing the teaching of the residency program.
These pages will provide you with information about the Pediatric and Medicine/Pediatric Residency Programs at UT Memphis. We included information about rotations, night call, benefits, and characteristics of the University of Tennessee, Le Bonheur, St. Jude, and The Newborn Center.
Come visit us, speak to our faculty and residents, and allow us to get to know you.
Sincerely,
Russell W. Chesney, M.D.
Le Bonheur Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Mark C. Bugnitz, M.D
Professor and Pediatric Program Director
Department of Pediatrics
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University of Tennessee
Pediatric Residency Program
50 N Dunlap St.
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: 1-800-733-6371
