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Family Medicine Residency (Chattanooga)

Program Overview and Applicant information

Our Family Medicine Residency is a three-year program that sponsors seven residents per year with an optional rural family medicine track position for one additional resident per year. Our faculty are a diverse group with experience in rural and urban private practice, operative obstetrics, sports medicine, geriatric medicine, lifestyle medicine, palliative medicine, and medical mission work. Our graduates have traversed nearly every avenue of family medicine nationwide from outpatient practice, hospitalist medicine, academics, and additional fellowship training.  We have had a 100% fellowship match rate in Sports Medicine, Obstetrics, Palliative Care, and Emergency Medicine.  We were the first program in Tennessee to adopt the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum.

Residency Tracks

Rural Medicine
Sports Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine
Obstetrics / Women’s Health

ERAS and NRMP

Applicants for our sevenCategorical Family Medicine PGY-1 positions offered for July 1, 2025, must go through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to apply to our program.  Also, applicants for our one Categorical Rural Family Medicine Track PGY-1 positions must also go through the ERAS system to apply to the program.  Finally, all our PGY-1 positions are committed through the National Resident Matching Program Main Match (NRMP).

Our Family Medicine ACGME Program Number is 1204731584. Our Categorical Family Medicine Program's NRMP code is 1689120C0.  Within ERAS, applicants for the traditional Categorical Family Medicine Program would indicate that track on the application within ERAS.

Our Family Medicine Program has also been approved by the ACGME to offer a Rural Family Medicine Track.  This track still falls under the ACGME Program # 1204731584.

Both tracks are available within the ERAS application system, so you when you submit your applications in ERAS, you should if you are applying for the Categorical Family Medicine Program Track, the Categorical Rural Family Medicine Program Track, or both.

After interviews are concluded and applicants are ready to submit their rank preference lists through the NRMP Main Matching Program, please be aware that there are two separate Program #s for our two Family Medicine Programs:

  • NRMP Program Code #1689120C0 for our traditional Family Medicine Categorical Track
  • NRMP Program Code #1689120C1 for our Rural Family Medicine Track.

If you are only interested in our traditional Family Medicine Residency, you would list Program #1689120C0 in your rank list.

If you are only interested in our Rural Family Medicine Track Residency, you would list Program #1689120C0 in your rank list.

If you are interested in both programs, you would include both NRMP Program Codes in your rank list.

If you have questions about these tracks or the application process, please feel free to reach out with questions during the application and interview process (utfammed@erlanger.org).  

Finally, please review our Important Recruiting Links.

Important Recruiting Links

Fellowships

Program Contacts

Residency Coordinator:
Elissa McCoy, MEd
Elissa.McCoy@erlanger.org 

Residency Office Phone:  423.778.2957
Fax: 423.778.2959
Dept email:  UTFamMed@erlanger.org 

Address:
1100 East 3rd Street
Chattanooga TN 37403

Learn about Chattanooga

Patient Care

UT Family Practice Center
1100 East Third Street
Chattanooga, TN 37403

For a patient appointment, call 423.778.8837 (UTFP) 

Residency Program History

Teaching at the Family Practice Center

Founded in 1995 by our first Chair, J. Mack Worthington, MD, FAAFP, we have held on to his goal of bringing the ideals of family medicine to the campus of a tertiary care medical center in Chattanooga.  Our department has not wavered in its determination to offer broad, evidence-based training to our residents and medical students. We practice our inpatient care in the 7th largest public hospital system in the country which has 650 beds and serves as a regional medical center. Over the ensuing years our faculty has expanded to include individuals certified not only in family medicine but also obstetrics, geriatrics, hypertension, mental health, sports medicine, and lifestyle medicine.

James Haynes, MD, MBA, FAAFP, former Chair of our Department, is Professor and Dean for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine - Chattanooga, and continues to serve as a key faculty member in our Department.

Other Chattanooga Department of Family Medicine Leadership includes:  

  • Leslie Griffin, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Family Medicine\
  • Steven Fox, MD, Program Director, Family Medicine Residency (and Director of our LifeStyle Medicine Curriculum
  • Alexandria Cooke, MD, Associate Program Director, Family Medicine Residency
  • Andrew Smith, MD, Site Director for the Family Medicine Rural Track at Erlanger Bledsoe Family Practice
  • Elissa McCoy, MEd, Coordinator, Family Medicine Residency
Sep 27, 2024