Quillen Ranks in Top 10 for Number of Graduates Entering Family
Medicine for Second Straight Year
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For the second straight year, East Tennessee State
University’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine has
received a prestigious award that recognizes Quillen as one of
the top 10 schools in the nation for producing family medicine
physicians.
The Quillen College of Medicine received the “2010 Family Medicine Top Ten Award” from the American Academy of Family Physicians during the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine conference, held this week in Vancouver, British Columbia. ETSU also received the award in 2009. The AAFP chose ETSU and nine other medical schools across the nation for its “Top Ten Award” based on the percentage of alumni entering an accredited family medicine residency training program from 2006-2009. Quillen’s three-year average was 15.5 percent. |
“We’re honored again to receive an award that strikes
to the heart of our mission at Quillen, to educate more primary
care physicians,” said Dr. John Franko, chair of ETSU’s
Department of Family Medicine. “Our college was built on the
foundation that we need an increasing number of primary care
doctors to improve our region’s health care, and that fact is
more relevant now than ever.
“This reward is reflective of the continued commitment our
college leadership, faculty, staff and resident physicians have to
family medicine.”
Faculty members from the ETSU Department of Family Medicine who
delivered presentations at the conference in Vancouver include Drs.
Franko, Connie Hixson, Glenda Stockwell, Greg Clarity, Fred
Tudiver, Bruce Bennard, Beth Fox, Jason Moore, Mike Floyd, Forrest
Lang and Peter Bockhorst.
Quillen’s family medicine program was also recently
recognized by U.S.News & World Report in the 2011 list of
“America’s Best Graduate Schools” for ranking
20th in the nation for family medicine education. The ETSU rural
programs division, which is housed in the Department of Family
Medicine and emphasizes medical training and practice in rural
areas, placed sixth in the nation for rural medicine education in
the U.S. News rankings.
Quillen ETSU Physicians serves the family medicine needs for
patients in the Tri-Cities through three practice offices that
operate under the ETSU Department of Family Medicine: ETSU Family
Medicine Associates in Johnson City, ETSU Family Physicians of
Bristol and ETSU Family Physicians of Kingsport.
All three offices offer family medicine residency programs that are
accredited by the American Council for Graduate Medical Education.
PHOTO CUTLINE: Pictured are Drs. Connie Hixson, Glenda Stockwell,
Greg Clarity, Fred Tudiver, Bruce Bennard, John Franko, Beth Fox,
Lori Heim, Jason Moore, Mike Floyd, Forrest Lang and Peter
Bockhorst. All are faculty members with the ETSU Department of
Family Medicine except for Heim, who, as president of the American
Academy of Family Physicians, presented the “2010 Family
Medicine Top Ten Award” to Franko, who is chair of the
department.