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 for Visiting Students is to provide students from diverse backgrounds, including 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. 

Consideration is given to students from diverse backgrounds, including socio-economically and/or academically disadvantaged**, rural/urban, underrepresented in medicine and first-genertation college graduates.

Interested students should complete this

entry form for more information.

Dr. Loretta Jackson-Williams, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs speaking to medical students at the University of MS Medical Center.

Additional Information

  • If selected for participation in the Clinical Elective Diversity Program for Visiting Students, you will be eligible to receive one of four $2000 stipends to defray travel and housing expenses while on rotation.
  • Applicants to this program must be 4th year medical students in good academic standing from an LCME accredited institution.
  • Selection may depend upon availability of rotation requested.
  • CEDP rotations should be scheduled during the months of August, September, October, or November.
  • There are no additional fees or tuition associated with participation in this program.
  • Contact the UMC registrar's office to receive the elective application. Visit: http://registrar.umc.edu/.
  • Submit a completed CEDP application and documentation of approval for rotation by stated deadlines.
  • Please observe the available 4th year electives: M4 COURSE  DESCRIPTIONS

For more information, please contact Mr. Roderick Gilbert, MPH (601)984-1344 or rgilbert2@umc.edu.

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.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center Campus

Jackson, Mississippi

 

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.

* "Underrepresented in Medicine-(URM)" 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)

** An individual from a disadvantaged background is defined as one who comes from an environment that has inhibited the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skill, and abilities required to enroll in and graduate from a health professions school, or from a program providing education or training in an allied health profession; or comes from a family with an annual income below a level based on low income thresholds according to family size published by the U.S.

(Visit: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/dsa/lds.htm)