Program Overview
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has a long-standing commitment to increasing diversity in is training programs. The aim of the Clinical Elective Diversity Program is to provide students, underrepresented in medicine (URM), the opportunity to have an outstanding clinical training experience at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Students will experience first-hand what the Medical Center has to offer.
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| Dr. Loretta Jackson-Williams, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs speaking to medical students at the University of MS Medical Center. |
For Visting Students
Our Mission
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has three missions: education, research, and patient care. University of Mississippi Health Care UMHC) identifies the patient care mission. UMHC encompasses specialty hospital and clinical practice sites across the State of Mississippi. It serves as the 722-bed diagnostic and treatment referral center for the state and is the only Level I trauma center in Mississippi. Inpatients total about 27,000 annually with more than 418,000 outpatient and emergency visits every year.
*URM - "Underrepresented in Medicine" means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."
(Visit: http://www.aamc.org/meded/urm/statusofnewdefinition.pdf)
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Our Facilities
University Hospital
The University Hospital is the flagship hospital of the UMMC campus with 256 beds for adult patient care and includes a critical care facility with specialized intensive care units including medical, cardiac, surgical, and neuroscience.
Wiser Hospital for Women & Infants
The Wiser Hospital for Women & Infants offers complete care for women and infants with the only OB/GYN emergency room in the state. The neonatal intensive care unit offers the highest level of care for critically-ill infants with the only Level III designation in Mississippi.
Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children
The Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children is the only children's hospital in Mississippi. Included in the 130-bed facility are areas for physical therapy, infant care, treatment rooms, bone marrow transplantation, a pediatric pharmacy, a children's surgical suite, a pediatric emergency room, and the state's only pediatric intensive care unit.
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The VAMC is an educational site for several of our UMMC residency programs. The collaboration with VAMC promotes common standards for patient care, resident and student education and research.
Community-Based Hospitals
Community-based hospitals also participate in the education of graduate medical education trainees in many of our programs to ensure a robust, well-rounded educational experience.
Graduate Medical Education at The University of Mississippi Medical Center enrolls approximately 135 new residents annually. We currently have 475 total residents in 38 accredited residency programs. Core programs include: Primary Care Specialties (Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Ob-gyn); Anesthesiology, Radiology, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery; Psychiatry, Urology, as well as sub-specialties of the core programs.