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The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, proudly announces its next 12 Resident Physicians who will join the current 24 rising second-year and third-year resident physicians in the program. 

Kumar Anmol, MD 

Medical School: Kasturba Medical College Manipal (Manipal, India)
Hometown: Patna, Bihar, India
Moving to Oxford from: Patna, Bihar, India   

Faqeeha Arif, MD

Medical School: King Edward Medical University (Lahore, Pakistan)
Hometown: Jalalpur Jattan, Punjab, Pakistan
Moving to Oxford from: Jalalpur Jattan, Punjab, Pakistan

Venkata Bandi, MD 

Medical School: Guntur Medical College (Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India)
Hometown: Visakhapatnam, India
Moving to Oxford from: Visakhapatnam, India

Barsha Baral, MD 

Medical School: Manipal College Of Medical Sciences (Pokhara, Nepal)
Hometown: Pokhara, Nepal
Moving to Oxford from: Pokhara, Nepal

Karan Bhatt, MD 

Medical School: B.J. Medical College (Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India)
Hometown: Wankaner, Gujarat, India
Moving to Oxford from: Wankaner, Gujarat, India

Lakshmi Tejaswini Eluri, MD 

Medical School: Guntur Medical College (Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India)
Hometown: Guntur, India
Moving to Oxford from: Guntur, India

Amrit Kahlon, MD 

Medical School: Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Amritsar, Punjab, India)
Hometown: Mohali, Punjab, India
Moving to Oxford from: Louisville, KY

Arjun Kandel, MD 

Medical School: Manipal College Of Medical Sciences (Pokhara, Nepal)
Hometown: Dang, Nepal
Moving to Oxford from: Lalitpur, Nepal

Reham Mostafa, MD 

Medical School: Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt)
Hometown: Cairo, Egypt
Current Hometown: Oxford, MS   

Parth Shah, MD 

Medical School: Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College (Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India)
Hometown: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Moving to Oxford from: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Nishanth Somashekar Ekambaranath, MD 

Medical School: S.S. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (Davangere, Karnataka, India)
Hometown: Mysuru, Karnataka, India
Moving to Oxford from: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sirpi Vivekanandam Sachithanandam, MD 

Medical School: P.S.G. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Coimbatore, India)
Hometown: Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
Moving to Oxford from: Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

The group will begin their three years of training in July 2025 as interns following an orientation period that begins on Monday, June 23.

These clinicians matched with BMH-NM on the first day of the National Resident Matching Program’s Main Residency Match after a rigorous recruitment, interview, and ranking process. The program received over 2,700 applications, and conducted over 150 interviews. Most applicants were able to travel to Oxford, MS, to see the community, hospital, and program in person. They were warmly welcomed by resident and faculty physicians, hospital administration and staff, and community members alike. 

The program’s mission remains to train clinically and procedurally competent physicians in the specialty of Internal Medicine who will provide high quality, safe, cost-effective, and patient/family-centered care for adults in North Mississippi, upholding the greater Baptist Memorial Health Care mission of “Healing, Preaching and Teaching.” 

Click here to download a PDF of the class flyer