University of Tennessee College of Medicine Murfreesboro Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based emergency medicine residency at Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford, a high-volume, efficient community hospital in Murfreesboro, supplemented by tertiary/pediatric exposure through rotations at the University of Tennessee Medical Center (Level 1 trauma, Knoxville) and Children's Hospital at Erlanger (pediatric ICU, Chattanooga). Faculty are drawn from a thriving private community group, emphasizing "real world" clinical practice, hands-on resuscitation and procedural volume rather than an academic tertiary-center identity. Graduate outcomes overwhelmingly show placement into community and regional emergency departments, particularly rural Tennessee EDs staffed by the MTEP group, with only occasional fellowship (critical care) placements, indicating the program is oriented toward preparing community emergency physicians rather than academicians or subspecialists. The program appears to value residents comfortable with high clinical volume, procedural autonomy, and a straightforward community-practice trajectory, including many DO and IMG-friendly graduates from varied medical school backgrounds.