The Nashville satellite will not affect the Memphis campus, which has served as home to the University of Tennessee’s medical school for 103 years, according to a top official. ‘In fact, it increases our reach and makes us stronger both in Memphis and statewide,’ Ken Brown, UTHSC executive vice chancellor and chief operations officer, said in a… Read More
UTHSC assistant dean Jessica Wells said … the number of residents at Saint Thomas Health hospitals is expected to increase from about 32 to about 200 over the next three year.
The aim is a satellite campus in Nashville in partnership with Saint Thomas Health that would be called UT Health Science Center Nashville Campus.
The Tennessean reports UTHSC Chancellor Steve J. Schwab said in a statement that the institution, which is based in Memphis, is eyeing “a major construction project” that would bring allow it to attract more medical students to Middle Tennessee.
Jessica Wells, vice president for medical education and research for Saint Thomas Health and an assistant dean for graduate medical education at UTHSC, said the training program would serve aspiring doctors and dentists, advanced practice nurses and other health providers.
The aim is a satellite campus in Nashville in partnership with Saint Thomas Health that would be called UT Health Science Center Nashville Campus.
“Across the board, individuals who had better glucose control due to intensive therapy had increased survival,” Dagogo-Jack said.
“Our strategy isn’t to dilute anything that we do here in Memphis at all,’’ he said. “As a matter of fact, we see this as a wonderful opportunity to increase our complement (of new students) because now we’re in another arena where we can play.”
