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Applicant: Thank you for your inquiry regarding
the urology residency program here at the University of Tennessee in
Memphis. The University of Tennessee
undergraduate campus is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, approximately 350
miles east of Memphis. The UT Memphis
campus contains all the colleges of the University of Tennessee related to
health care; including the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy
and Allied Health. Our urology residency program is five
years in duration, with the first year
being involved in General Surgery . The last four years are spent in
Urology. The pre-urology year is provided by the
University of Tennessee in Memphis from the Department of Surgery. Supervision of the PGY-1 year resident is a
joint responsibility of the Departments of Surgery and Urology. Rotations during this year are established
by the Department of Urology. The PGY-1 level resident will spend
12 months in General Surgery rotations including trauma. The University of Tennessee staffs a
fully accredited level one trauma center.
It currently ranks as the second busiest trauma center in the United
States. All genitourinary trauma is
managed by the Department of Urology. Should you match into our urology
residency, you will automatically be placed into the pre-urology general
surgery segment. It is not necessary
for you to apply separately or to interview with the Department of Surgery;
although, such an interview can be arranged if you so desire. It will be necessary, however, for you to
remain in the match for the pre-urology general surgery match. During the four years of urology,
there are multiple clinical rotations utilizing various hospitals. These clinical rotations are as follows:
(1) University Hospital rotation, which involves a combination of hospitals
including Baptist Memorial Hospital, The Med Hospital and the UT Bowld
Hospital. (2) Veterans Administration Hospital, (3) LeBonheur Children's
Hospital and St. Jude Hospital, (4) Methodist Hospital, (5) VA Stone
Center/VA Neurourology Center. All of
these facilities are within walking distance of each other with the exception
of Baptist Hospital, which is approximately 20 minutes away by car. Free parking is provided. Our academic offices as well as the
resident offices are located at 1211 Union Ave. Suite 340 adjacent to the
Methodist Hospital. It is in this
area, where each resident is assigned
individual office space and a locker.
Each resident has access to computers, phones, a urologic library,
copy machine, fax machine, secretarial support and other ancillary personnel
. A state-of-the-art research facility of greater than 10,000 square feet is
also available to residents. First year (PGY-2) urology residents
will be assigned eight months at the Veterans Administration Hospital and
four months on the University rotation (The Med, UT Bowld Hospital and
Baptist Memorial Hospital). Second
year (PGY-3) urology residents will spend four months at Methodist Hospital,
four months on the University rotation and four months in Pediatric Urology
at LeBonheur Children's Hospital and St. Jude Hospital. Third year (PGY-4) urology residents will
rotate for four months on the University rotation, four months at the
Methodist Hospital, and will spend four months at the Veterans Administration
Hospital in the Stone Center and the Neurourology Center. The fourth year (PGY-5) urology residents
serve as chief residents at the Veterans Administration Hospital for four
months, the University rotation for four months and at the Pediatric
Hospitals (LeBonheur/St. Jude) for
four months. The Memphis Veterans Administration
Hospital, with 1,000 beds, is one of the largest veterans hospitals in the
country. In addition, connected to our
Veterans Hospital, is a recently completed Veterans Administration Spinal
Cord Injury Hospital, with an additional 130 beds. Of note, the urology portion of the VA
Hospital is approximately 15,000 square feet.
In this space, we have state-of-the-art equipment, including five
operating rooms. Each operating room
is equipped with OEC urologic fluoroscopy tables, Holmium laser, cryosurgery,
transrectal ultrasound, renal and abdominal ultrasound equipment are all
available, as well as other state-of-the-art urologic equipment for
endourology and laparoscopic urology.
One of the operating rooms is specifically designed with radiographic
equipment for percutaneous surgery.
One of the other rooms, besides the five operating rooms, contains a
secondgeneration Dornier lithotripter for ESWL. We also have state-of-the-art video
urodynamics performed at the Neurourology suite in the VA Hospital. Our VA Hospital is also a regional referral
center for stone disease and for prostate cancer. The University Hospitals includes the
Regional Medical Center, which includes the Trauma Center, as well as the UT
Bowld Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital.
The UT Bowld Hospital and Baptist Hospital are primarily utilized for
private patient care. The Methodist
Hospital has 800 bed complexes, primarily utilized for care of private
patients, as well as maintaining a very active charity service for resident
education. The LeBonheur Children's
Hospital has 350 beds and the St. Jude's Cancer and Pediatric Hospital has
greater than 300 beds, as well as being a state-of-the-art research facility. The urology department has 10
full-time faculty members. Dr.
Mitchell Steiner is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology and
Dr. Robert Wake is Associate Professor and Vice Chairman who serves as the
Residency Program Director of the Department of Urology. The remainder of the faculty, with the
exception of two full-time pediatric urologists, are involved in adult
urology with special interests in uro-oncology, laparoscopic and endourology,
female urology, neurourology, erectile dysfunction and infertility. All urologic sub-specialities are
covered. Residents are certified for
lithotripsy, laparoscopic urology, endourology, various types of laser
surgery, as well as all other aspects of training at the completion of this
program. All aspects of urological surgery are
available in sufficient volume to provide excellent training. In fact, in the majority of index cases, we
exceed the 90th percentile. Staff
supervision is provided in all of the rotations. However, the residents actually perform the
cases in over 90% of the surgical procedures performed at the various
institutions, particularly at the VA Hospital, University rotation and
Methodist Hospital. Our conference schedule is best
evaluated by your perusal of the enclosed representative schedule. Changes in this schedule occur only for
advantageous reasons, such as visiting professorships. At least once per year and usually twice
per year, we have exciting visiting professors. Also, every other year, we have a major
reunion for the urology residents from previous years, which allows everyone
to stay in contact to see how everyone who had come through the program is
continuing to succeed. First year
urology residents enjoy their time when they instruct the first year medical
students in the gross anatomy lab.
This is done when the students begin dissection of the abdomen and
continues through dissection of the pelvis and perineum. Each PGY-2 urology resident instructs four
students on one cadaver. This occurs
during November and December for a period of approximately six to eight
weeks. Following a one-hour lecture on
the relevant anatomy, the dissection is performed three mornings weekly from
9:00 a.m. until noon. Although
slightly disruptive to the routine schedule, we have found this to provide an
extremely valuable review of genitourinary anatomy, which results in more
rapid adaptation by the resident to urological surgical procedures. Hopefully after reflecting upon the
contents of this information, you will continue to have an interest in our
urology program. If so, please
complete and submit an application through
ERAS.
Our deadline for accepting applications is October 1. Interviews are granted by invitation
only. Should you have any questions
following submission of your application, please contact Trish Phelan,
Education Coordinator, at (901) 448-1026.
Our fax number is (901) 448-1122.
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