University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated Family Medicine program based at Erlanger Health, a large 650-bed public tertiary referral hospital, giving residents a busy inpatient service alongside outpatient continuity clinic at the UT Family Practice Center. The program's defining structural feature is its named-track architecture: a dedicated Rural Family Medicine Track (with a separate NRMP code) built around the Erlanger Bledsoe Primary Care site for PGY-2/3 years, plus Sports Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine (first in Tennessee to adopt the AAFP Lifestyle Medicine curriculum), and Obstetrics/Women's Health tracks. Career orientation is broad full-spectrum family practice with a track record of 100% fellowship match in Sports Medicine, OB, Palliative Care, and Emergency Medicine, alongside graduates entering outpatient practice, hospitalist medicine, and academics; research is not central to program identity but exists as elective/scholarly opportunity within a larger R1 university system. The program repeatedly emphasizes community-focused, underserved, and rural care commitment, procedural training, and a collegial, teaching-oriented faculty culture drawn from rural/urban private practice, operative OB, sports medicine, geriatrics, and lifestyle medicine backgrounds.