Specialized training is available to residents in cytogenetics, fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, and toxicology. The fully accredited Internal Medicine Residency Program offers three separate tracts as part of the training program. It offers a broad range of experience in general internal medicine as well an exposure to all of the subspecialities of internal medicine. The primary care track provides individuals with an extensive exposure to general internal medicine with an increased emphasis on the practice of medicine in the outpatient setting. Primary care residents divide their time equally between impatient service, ambulatory care experience and elective rotations.
Many residents take elective rotations outside the discipline of internal medicine.
Residents in the preliminary program may opt to transfer to the categorical or primary care programs. The integration of the four hospitals in the training program provides a balanced mixture of patient population and exposure to a wide range of simple as well as complex multisystem diseases. Hospital facilities are state of the art and include cardiac catheterization laboratories with open-heart surgery, cancer treatment centers, and the newest diagnostic imaging equipment including CT scans, isotope scans and magnetic resonance imaging. Additionally, Holston Valley Hospital and Medical Center serves as the Level I trauma center for the region. The Department of Medicine consists of the Division of General Internal Medicine plus 16 subspecialty divisions that provide a full complement of board-certified subspecialists and offer a wide range of electives in internal medicine.