Graduate Medical Education

Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University was established for the purpose of providing physicians and medical care to the people in the surrounding regions. Quillen College of Medicine is a publicly supported academic institution dedicated to excellence in medical care, biomedical research and health education. Graduate Medical Education (GME) plays a crucial role in obtaining these goals

Welcome

Quillen College of Medicine endeavors to meet community and regional needs. This effort includes identifying, creating and establishing excellent programs to accommodate those needs, and providing full support, with the comitment by the Sponsoring Institution, for the administrative, educational, financial, human and clinical resources, so to meet those needs in the future.

Our residency and fellowship programs are key in the education of medical students and the research activities of the institution by providing service, creating teaching and educational opportunities for the area, and ultimately improving the health care in northeast Tennessee and the surrounding Appalachian region.

The mission of the Office of Graduate Medical Education programs, and supported by our Sponsoring Institution are::

• To provide excellent training for both primary and specialist physicians, with emphasis on training primary care physicians to serve the rural environment;
• To promote an academic environment that nurtures both research and scholarly activity at both the resident and faculty level;
• To strengthen public/private partnerships with surrounding healthcare related institutions;
• To enhance delivery of patient care services to our region;
• To gain recognition by both the region's public and professional community as the center for excellent healthcare delivery and research in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.