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UTHSC Careers in Medicine hosts second session "Ask the Experts" Q/A Platform
The Office of Student Affairs, through its Careers in Medicine website, will offer its second session "Ask the Experts". Ask the Experts is a question/answer platform that enables students to interact with experts in their fields, not only about their specialties, but about the mechanics of making career decisions in those specialties. Responses to questions submitted will be returned via Email. Commonly asked questions, or questions which may be particularly helpful to others, will be posted online to the Ask the Experts: "Previously Asked Questions" Q/A board. (Note: Identifying markers will be removed prior to posting. UTNET ID and password required) In the near future, we will offer opportunities with other specialties as well.
The following faculty will be representing their specialties during these Ask the Experts sessions:
Do you have questions about which career path to follow and/or how to get there? Let the Experts help you. Visit the UTHSC Careers in Medicine - "Ask the Experts" - today! With the chatter of residency in the air, there's no time to waste! For more information, contact Debbey Hester at 901.448.5531.
Medical Student Scholarships and Summer Research Opportunities now available
The National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program offered by the National Health Service Corps is now available and posted on our site at:
With summer fast approaching, students may want to check out the summer student research opportunities now available. Point your browser to http://medicine.utmem.edu/StudentAffairs/index.php?doc=inc/research.inc and start making your summer plans today. This site is updated regularly as information becomes available.
Classs of 2009 | 2008-09 Residency Application Process
To ensure a successful residency application process, please review the 2008-09 Residency Application Timeline below. For questions or additional information, please contact Debbey Hester at 448-5531. We also invite you to visit our career counseling page for additional information that might also help make this process easier for you.
Military Match Rank Order List (check official websites for exact dates)
September-October (deadline)
MSPE Release Date (all matches/all programs)
November 1
Military Match Results (check official websites for exact dates)
December
NRMP Rank Order List
January -February
Early Match (AUA) Rank Order List
January 8 (deadline)
Early Match (SF Match-Ophthalmology) Rank Order List
January 5 (deadline)
Early Match (SF Match-Ophthalmology) Match Results
January 15
Early Match (AUA) Match Results
January 261
NRMP Match Notification (matched/unmatched notice via NRMP website)
March 16
NRMP Scramble (coordinated by/through the Office of Student Affairs)
March 17-18
NRMP Match Day
March 19
*UTNET ID and password required. Dates/time subject to change
Welcome to the Office of Student Affairs web page. We appreciate the time you have taken to visit our page and hope you find our information helpful and informative. The Office of Student Affairs is concerned with the overall growth, development, and graduation of medical students. Thus, the goal of our office is to serve students through a wide range of activities and programs, including career counseling, residency placement, graduation activities, and much, much more.
Student Affairs is intimately involved in seeking ways to enhance students' non-academic experiences with a goal of assuring that problems are addressed before they have an adverse affect on the students. Students with various concerns, whether personal, financial, or social, should not hesitate to contact our office whenever they feel the need.
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Once a week, College of Medicine students have been going to Downtown Elementary School to tutor and work with the students. It's a great way to give back to the community that provides us with so much during our medical education, and this affords the medical students to be a powerful, positive influence in the younger kids' lives.
For a month during the spring of 2008, several senior medical students participated in the Rural/Urban Himalayan Rotation through Child Family Health International (CFHI). CFHI offers service-learning programs around the world, and as students in the program, they were charged with broadening public health knowledge in the areas they served, interfacing with a different culture, and developing creativity in public health problem-solving. These M4's were based primarily in north India, living in the city of Dehra Dun; they each spent a week in both the hill station of Mussoorie and small clinic in the rural community of Than Gaon. While in India, these medical students had the opportunity to encounter a range of unique diseases, some of which are now seen only in the most rural clinical healthcare environments of this country. In addition to emphasizing primary care and public health, the program also showed the UTCOM students how the health care needs of rural communities in India impinge on the delivery of health care in urban areas.
To help address the problem of infant mortality in Memphis, twenty medical students organized a session at the Pyramid Academy to work with pregnant teenagers, educating these women on safe sleep for their infants. It is well known that co-sleeping and other such child-rearing practices increase the incidence of accidental suffocation and sudden infant death (SIDS) in the first few months of life. To dissuade these behaviors, medical students instructed the expecting mothers in the assembly of simple bassinets for safer infant sleep. By participating in this activity, medical students hope to contribute to a practical solution for this troubling problem.
May 21st, 2008 will mark the three-year anniversary of the opening of Clínica Esperanza. Clínica Esperanza (Clinic of Hope) serves uninsured, Hispanic patients each Wednesday evening from 5:30-9:00 pm. With the support of Christ Community Clinic, Clínica Esperanza has helped meet the medical needs of hundreds of patients over the last three years. The clinic is completely run by volunteers. Student volunteers from all four medical school classes come each week and serve as interpreters, work in the lab, help update patient records, and interview and examine patients under the direction of attending physicians. The attending physicians from the departments of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Ob/Gyn provide patients with excellent care, while exemplifying for the students the importance of serving in the community as an essential part of the medical profession. If you would like more information about Clínica Esperanza, please E-mail clinicaesperanza@utmem.edu
In light of the tragic events that transpired on the campus of Virginia Tech, the UTHSC students have arranged for a floral wreath to be placed in a memorial site on the campus of Virginia Tech. The wreath, adorned with orange, maroon and white flowers, will be among hundreds of floral arrangements being sent in rememberance of the victims and their families, as well as the Virginia Tech family. Your thoughts and continued acts of kindness to the students, faculty and staff of Virginia Tech are deeply appreciated. (UTHSC Campus Communications; 04/19/2007)
Students and faculty of the College of Medicine raise over $2400 for the "Save the Children Tsunami Relief Effort". This very successful fundraising effort was led by CIAO, Council for International & Area Outreach.
In January and February 2005, our medical students donned work gloves and boots to clear Zion Christian Cemetery, a 15-acre historic site founded in 1876 by former slaves and final resting place of 22,000 African-Americans, during Project Zion. Four acres are now cleared with eleven remaining on this ambitious project.
Ten first year medical students joined nine second year medical students in being selected to enter the second class of the College's certificate program in health policy and health system leadership. The program, which is coordinated by the Center of Health Services Research, offers students with special interests in health policy and leadership additional experiences in state government and health systems. During the next four years, these students will observe agencies of state government, attend leadership seminars and participate in a rotation with a senior leader of a local health care system. In addition to their M.D. degree upon graduation, they will also receive a certificate of special accomoplishment.
Students teach medical disaster preparedness of chemical, biological, radiological, and general disaster information through UT Community Disaster Relief.
Last updated: March 20, 2008 | Office Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm To report problems with this page, call Debbey Hester, (901) 448-5531 An EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA employer
"The University of Tennessee, College of Medicine has its roots in Nashville as the Nashville Medical College. That college as organized in 1876, and in 1879 was acquired by the University of Tennessee as its medical department. The Memphis Hospital Medical College was also found in 1876 but, because of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, did not actually hold classes until 1880. In 1909 two Nashville schools merged and were operating as the joint Medical department of the University of Nashville and the University of Tennessee. It moved to Memphis in 1911 and merged with the College of Physicians and Surgeons to become the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine... "
The National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program offered by the National Health Service Corps is now available and posted on our site at:
