University of Tennessee College of Medicine- Chattanooga Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a newly ACGME-accredited (2023), Advanced Neurology Residency built around a mandatory institutional PGY-1 preliminary medicine year followed by three years of neurology training entirely at Erlanger Health System, the region's only comprehensive stroke center and level-one trauma center drawing patients from Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. The program's identity is explicitly safety-net and tertiary/quaternary community-academic hybrid, emphasizing high-acuity inpatient neurology (stroke, EMG, EEG, neuro-ICU exposure) alongside structured outpatient subspecialty clinics in epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, movement disorders, and sleep medicine. Research is present but modest in scope, limited to discrete elective blocks in the senior year rather than a dedicated track, while the program instead foregrounds clinical volume, teaching responsibility ("Residents as Educators" curriculum), and progressive leadership roles (chief resident) as its core developmental values. As a small, single-site, single-hospital-system program with only three residents per class, it appears to value applicants committed to a linear categorical path (PGY-1 through PGY-4 at the same institution) and comfortable with a high-acuity, underserved regional referral population.