East Tennessee State University-Quillen College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

The Johnson City Family Medicine Residency is a community-based program housed within an academic medical center, giving residents access to a Level 1 trauma center and a regional children's hospital while training in a broad-based, socioeconomically diverse continuity clinic of over 14,000 annual visits. The curriculum is structured around a traditional inpatient-heavy PGY-1 year transitioning to progressively greater ambulatory and office-chief responsibility, with explicit tracks in practice management, geriatrics, sports medicine, and community medicine, and faculty interests spanning substance abuse, chronic disease, and physician wellness. A notable distinguishing feature is a substantial transgender patient population, giving residents concentrated experience in gender-affirming hormone management not commonly available elsewhere. The program's stated mission is producing comprehensive, community-focused, patient-centered generalists rather than subspecialists, situating it as a full-spectrum, broad-scope family medicine training environment embedded in a rural/Appalachian referral region.