To Office of Student Affairs continuously seeks ways to improve the lines of communication between the various College of Medicine offices/departments, including our own, and medical students. Upon acceptance to the College of Medicine each student is assigned an email account which enables the College of Medicine to send official electronic correspondence. Each student is responsible for checking and maintaining his/her email account as it is where he/she will receive official College communications.
The format of an official University email address is: NETID@utmem.edu. Students can forward email from their official University email account to any email account he/she chooses. Please note, however, that if a student elects to forward his/her e-mail and that process fails, the student will still be responsible for reading and responding to any official information sent to their official University email account.
"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... "
