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We are pleased to announce that the next class of Internal Medicine Resident Physicians have matched to Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi. The 12 trainees who will make up the fourth class will join the current 24 PGY1 and PGY2 Resident Physicians. The group will begin their three years of training in July 2024 following a two-week orientation period. A full class announcement will be forthcoming. The first class of resident physicians who began their training in 2021 will complete the residency program this summer as the new class is entering. 

Throughout the recruitment process, program leadership focused on the whole candidate, with the most important criteria being “mission fit,” including applicants who are natives of the Mid-South, were educated in the area, have a strong connection to loved ones in Mississippi or the Mid-South, and those who have a strong desire to live in and serve the state and region after training.  Each of the 12 incoming resident physicians possesses their own unique combination of characteristics and connections that made them an ideal candidate to train at Baptist North Mississippi. 

The recruitment season wrapped up on February 28, 2024, with the certification of the final rank order list in The National Resident Matching Program’s Main Residency Match. Through the process, a dynamic group of candidates from across the globe shared their life stories, motivation for pursuing medicine, and professional aspirations. Nearly all of the candidates traveled in person to Oxford, MS, to tour the community and BMH-NM facilities. All 12 positions were filled on the first day of the Main Residency Match. 

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.”