Profession
Mississippi regains residencies
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted June 4, 2007
Medical residents are returning to Biloxi, Miss., for the first time since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast town. On July 1, Keesler Medical Center plans to reopen its general surgery, internal medicine and obstetrics-gynecology residencies. Pediatric residents are slated to start in Jan. 1, 2008.
Keesler, an Air Force medical center, trained only military physicians until now, but that will change soon following an agreement with the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Officials from the University's School of Medicine said the agreement also opens Keesler as a clinical training site for third- and fourth-year students, which will help increase class size.
John E. Moffitt, MD, senior associate dean for the medical school, said the school was preparing an estimate on the cost of this expansion for the Legislature, but the number had not been finalized yet.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour approved the joint effort in June 2006.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/06/04/prbf0604.htm.