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Department of
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Program: 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 is 12 months of general surgery followed
by 48 months of clinical urology. The
urology residents will still be exposed to urologic research (both clinical
and basic science) throughout their 48 months of training. One pre-urology year (1 year of general
surgery) is offered by the sponsoring institution. For those applicants accepted into the
University of Tennessee Urology Program, the pre-urology General Surgery year
must be performed at the University of Tennessee. 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 further 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
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