Chattanooga Vascular Surgery Applicant Information
Virtual Interviews
This year all UTHSC GME Programs will conduct virtual interviews only -- per the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Coalition for Physician Accountability recommendations -- to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pre-requisite Training:
Applicants for the Vascular Surgery Fellowship must have completed at least a five-year Surgery Residency by the time they would enter the Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program.
Application Procedure:
Application to the Fellowship Program will be processed through the Electronic Residency Application Services (ERAS). Applicants will go through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for the matching process. Our deadline for receiving applications through ERAS is late March 2021. Interviews are conducted from January through April 2021.
Note: The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners requires that applicants for license in Tennessee must be graduates either from LCME or AOA accredited schools or from international schools whose admission meet or exceed those of medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. The UT College of Medicine Chattanooga and its programs have determined that they will only consider applicants for student rotations or residency/fellowship applications who are from schools who meet these same criteria so they would be eligible for medical license in Tennessee after completing residency. The Board of Medical Examiners adopts the following list of accreditation bodies:
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- Medical Board of California list of approved medical schools www.mbc.ca.gov/Applicants/Medical_Schools/Schools_Recognized.aspx
- Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions (CAAM-HP) www.caam-hp.org/assessedprogrammes.html
- Accreditation Commission of Colleges of Medicine (ACCM) www.accredmed.org/
- In addition, the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA) provides a list of countries whose designated accreditation process or designated organization used for their accreditation has comparable standards used to evaluate medical schools in the United States by the LCME. Medical schools in those countries and accredited by the listed accrediting authority will be deemed to meet the criteria required in Tennessee. http://sites.ed.gov/ncfmea/comparability-decisions/