A significant part of USA’s mission is to educate surgical residents in the ethics, art
and science of surgery.
Through our collaboration with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine as
its surgical department faculty, the UT/USA residency program, which includes five
clinical years of surgery and one year of clinical research, graduates four chief
general surgery residents and fellows in critical care and vascular surgery each year.
Graduating residents regularly obtain the most competitive surgical
fellowships available nationally, or easily transition into the practice of surgery upon graduation. Many surgeons and surgical specialists practicing in the region have trained in the UT/USA program.
