Name: Tammy Wichman, MD
Medical school attended: St. Louis University School of Medicine
Location of your residency/fellowship training: Virginia Commonwealth University
What residency/fellowship program at UNMC are you serving as program director for?
Internal medicine
Number of trainees: 75
How long have you been the program director?
One and a half years
What made you choose to become the program director?
I love helping young physicians grow from medical students into outstanding independent clinicians.
What challenges do you foresee in graduate medical education in the future?
Financing graduate medical education is always a challenge.
What are the strengths of your training program?
We have:
- Fantastic faculty who are dedicated to education.
- Outstanding patient diversity so that residents take care of people from all walks of life, from the worried well to the critically ill.
- Leadership is committed to increasing diversity and helping residents learn resiliency and work-life balance.
- Residents who are amazing people, who support each other as they learn to provide serious medicine, extraordinary care.
List some accomplishments that you are proud of:
- Being a mom and a pulmonary-critical care physician. (My secret is my husband of 25 years!)
- Building the Pulmonary Hypertension Center of Excellence.
- Being program director during a pandemic.
Tell us three things about you that others may not know:
- I have five kids.
- My oldest is in medical school at my alma mater.
- I ran a marathon last year but I definitely prefer the half-marathon!