The College of Medicine offers programs that lead to the doctor of medicine (M.D.) degree. The school also participates in the combined M.D/Ph.D. program and other programs offered by the UT Graduate School of Health Sciences.
The University of Tennessee College of Medicine selects one class with a maximum of 165 students to enter in August. In considering applicants, the College of Medicine gives first priority to qualified Tennessee residents. Second priority goes to qualified residents of the states that border Tennessee: Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri. Third priority goes to children of University of Tennessee alumni. All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
The Memphis campus has 25 departments and more than 630 full-time faculty members. The departments are Anatomy and Neurobiology, Anesthesiology, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Institute, Comparative Medicine, Developmental Disabilities, Family Medicine, Molecular Sciences, Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Plastic Surgery, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, Radiology, Surgery and Urology.
Primary teaching hospitals in Memphis are Methodist University Hospital, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Methodist-Le Bonheur Children's Hospital with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Regional Medical Center of Memphis (the MED). In the suburbs of Memphis other hospitals, such as Baptist Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Center, also serve as training sites. The College of Medicine also has affiliations with the Campbell Clinic in Orthopedics, Semmes-Murphy Clinic in Neurosurgery and the Hamilton Eye Institute.
Most research programs of the College of Medicine are based on the Memphis campus. Research programs in cardiovascular, neuroscience and genetic and infectious disease have national stature. Interdisciplinary research is occurring in the Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics, the Cancer Research Center and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.