UT Health Science Center College Of Medicine Reaccredited
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine has been reaccredited for the maximum eight-year term by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
UTHSC In the Media
UTHSC graduates, families celebrate graduation in Memphis
As rain showers gave way to muggy sunshine outside the FedExForum on Friday, inside the hard work and dreams of more than 670 graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center were celebrated with cheers and tears.
UT students learn how to begin end-of-life care conversations
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is using the Respecting Choices program to teach students in health care professions how to have conversations with patients about their care preferences. The program uses actors trained to raise realistic patient issues, and the goal is to help patients consider advance directives.
Breathing Easier: UTHSC screening and treatment programs target lung cancer
Dr. Benny Weksler … chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and also UTHSC’s first Eastridge-Cole Professor … is a key player in a lung cancer screening program that UTHSC and the West Clinic hope to launch by this fall.
Students Practice the End-of-Life Talk
Medical professionals often have difficult conversations with patients, but a new program at UT Health Science Center encourages students to bring up the touchy subject of “what happens if.”
Medical Center Makeover: UTHSC Construction Transforms Area
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is one of the leaders in changing the look and feel of the area, with $175 million in construction or renovation projects underway or in the planning stages, driven mostly by the desire to produce a modern campus attractive to students, faculty and researchers.
Breakthrough in RSV Research to Help Infected Children
Researchers at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center announced results from a clinical trial of a drug shown to safely reduce the viral load and clinical illness of healthy adult volunteers intranasally infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Erlanger approves stronger contract with UT
… the Erlanger board of trustees approved a long-awaited affiliation agreement with the University of Tennessee.