Emergency Medicine Overview

William Phillips, M.D. Program Director	Risa Moriarity, M.D. Assistant Program Director

Jonathan Jones, M.D.
Assistant Program Director

The Emergency Medicine residency program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center was founded in 1986, with departmental status since 1994. Initally, the program matched six residents per year as a 2-4 program. The residency program was approved for 8 residents per year in 1997 and was increased in 2003 to 10 residents per year in the match. In 2009, the program was established as a 1-4 program matching 9 residents per year starting for the 2010 year..

The goal of residency training in emergency medicine is to produce true emergency specialists, with both the knowledge and clinical experience to respond to each and every medical emergency in any arena. Education, at the bedside and in the conference room, forms the keystone of our approach to residency training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. At the same time, academic and research interests are fully supported and pursued. The first-year resident's primary role is patient care. Assessment, diagnostic and management skills are refined, and procedural skills are stressed through a program of intensive training. In the second year, the resident has the added responsibility of managing an area of the department, and further develops skills in resuscitation of critical patients. In the third and fourth year, the resident assumes responsibility for the department in its entirety and directs both medical and trauma resuscitations.

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The Medical Center
The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is the health sciences Campus of the University of Mississippi. The Medical Center opened in 1955, but it originated in 1903, when a two-year medical school was established on the parent Oxford campus.In Jackson, the Center started with a four-year medical school, a nursing department (granted school status in 1958), a library and a teaching hospital. The School of Health Related Professions was added in 1971 and the School of Dentistry in 1974. The Center functions as a separately-funded, semi-autonomous unit responsible to the Chancellor of the University and, through him, to the constitutional Board of Trustees which governs eight state institutions of higher learning. The Medical Center occupies a 164-acre tract of University- owned land in the heart of Jackson.The Medical Center's original eight-story building is now the nucleus of a major academic health sciences complex housing Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Health Related Professions, the Graduate Programs in the Medical and Clinical Health Sciences and the 722-bed University Hospitals and Clinics. Between 1988 and the mid-1990's, five construction projects were completed: the University Medical Pavilion where faculty physicians see their private patients; the Ronald McDonald House which provide hotel-like accommodations for families of patients in Children's Hospital; the Mississippi Children's Cancer Clinic which houses all outpatient treatment facilities for pediatric hematology and oncology patients; a state-of-the-art laundry; and the Arthur C. Guyton Laboratory Research Building.

From 1997 to 1999, six new buildings and two parking garages opened as part of a $211 million campus construction program -- the largest expansion package in the history of higher education in the state at the time. This expansion included the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, a new imaging center including an interventional MRI, the Winfred L. Wiser Hospital for Women & Infants, the School of Health Related Professions, the expanded Chritine L. Oglevee Building housing the School of Nursing, and the Norman C. Nelson Student Center.

The Wallace Conerly Critical Care Hospital opened in 2001, which houses the medical, cardiac, neuroscience, and surgical intensive care units. A twin heliport for UMC's emergency AirCare helicopter is located on the roof.

Construction on a new adult hospital is complete as is a two-story addition to the Batson Hospital for Children. Construction is also nearing complete of a the new state of the art Guyton research tower.

The Mississippi Methodist Hospital and Rehabilitation Center and the McBryde Rehabilitation Center for the Blind are also on campus, as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery Medical Center.

The University Hospitals and Clinics
The 722-bed University Hospitals and Clinics provide the clinical training sites for the Medical Center's educational programs and serve as the state's principal diagnostic and treatment referral centers. There are more than 450 on the medical staff. The Medical Center functions as a level 1 trauma center and is the hub for EMS activity in central Mississippi. Specialized services include coronary care, intensive care, neurosurgical and stroke units; cardiopulmonary and work evaluation laboratories; computerized tomography for head and body C-arm biplane with magnification stereoscopic capabilities; an imaging center; an active transplant program; in vitro fertilization and other infertility treatments; and antenatal diagnostic unit and the only hospital in Mississippi designed and equipped especially for children. It has its own specialty clinics, newborn intensive care units, rehab center radiology department and pharmacy. The acute services complex houses both adult and pediatric emergency departments, an 18-bed outpatient surgery suite, an observation area, radiation therapy headquarters and heart station on ground level. The 16-room operating suite, an acute laboratory surgery intensive care and post anesthesia units and hospital administration offices occupy the second floor. The new acute services tower, which opened in 1998, houses a new imaging center, medical intensive care unit, bone marrow transplant unit, neurosurgical intensive care unit and coronary care unit.Full-time medical staffs are assigned to both the pediatric and adult emergency departments, and all specialties are available 24 hours a day. Medical Center inpatients total more than 27,000 annually and there are some 418,000 clinic and emergency visits each year. The adult and pediatric emergency departments see more than 95,000 victims of acute illness and injuries each year.Research has always been the third vital component of the Medical Center's mission, and it has blossomed in as many ways as the Medical Center has expanded to meet Mississippi's needs. Currently, UMC investigators are studying the immune response, how to make earth-friendly compounds from organic material, the mechanisms of drug tolerance and sensitivity, hypertension, sickle cell disease, congestive heart failure, dementia associated with AIDS and the biological basis for mental illnesses.

The Medical Center was choosen this year as a Thompsons Top 100 Hospital nationwide.

The Department of Emergency Medicine offers nine PGY-1 positions. The program is listed in the national directory under Emergency Medicine. Positions are filled through the National Resident Matching Program. Medical students participating in the advanced match may pursue these positions. Applicants must apply through ERAS: The Electronic Residency Application Service. ERAS application materials will be distributed from the dean's office of the applicant. ERAS will transmit the required application form, the medical school transcript and dean's letter, an official copy of the national board, USMLE or FLEX scores, and three letters of recommendation

Individuals interested in applying should contact:

Department of Emergency Medicine
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39216-4505

Program Coordinator:
Sharron White
(601)984-5582
swhite@emergmed.umsmed.edu

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