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about the college

The College of Medicine is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which represents the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The Colleges GME programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Physician Assistant Program is accredited by ARC-PA. The College also is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) through the UT Health Science Center.

There are 27 departments on our Memphis campus, nine departments on our Knoxville campus, ten departments on our Chattanooga campus, and one department on our Nashville campus. Medical students from the College of Medicine spend their first two years on the Memphis campus and then rotate on all four campuses for clinical training. GME Programs and active research and clinical practice programs are present at all four College of Medicine campuses. Currently, the College has approximately 656 medical students and over 1,200 residents and fellows over 100 ACGME-accredited training programs. Gross revenues for the College exceed $1 billion annually with greater than $95 million in research revenues. Multiple physician practice groups make up the College of Medicine clinical enterprise, including University Le Bonheur Physicians Specialists (ULPS), UT Regional One Physicians (UTROP), University Clinical Health (UCH), University Surgical Associates (USA), and partnerships with Methodist University Hospital, Erlanger Medical Group, West Tennessee Medical Group, and UT Medical Centers in Knoxville.