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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 enter as the sixth class of resident physicians in the program. They will join the current 24 rising second-year and third-year resident physicians.

Dhruvil Desai, MD 

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

Barbara Jacobs Rodrigues, MD

Medical School: Universidad Catolica Boliviana San Pablo (Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
Hometown: Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Samit Lamichhane, MD 

Medical School: Chitwan Medical College (Bharatpur, Nepal)
Hometown: Bharatpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Mohamed Nour, MD

Medical School: BAU International University  Batumi (Batumi, Georgia)
Hometown: Cairo, Egypt

Manav Patel, MD 

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

Muhammad Raif, MD 

Medical School: King Edward Medical University (Lahore, Pakistan)
Hometown: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Nikita Talpallikar, MD 

Medical School: D.Y. Patil Medical College (Kolhapur, India)
Hometown: Solapur, Maharashtra, India

Pakeeza Tarar, MD 

Medical School: Allama Iqbal Medical College (Lahore, Pakistan)
Hometown: Vehari, Punjab, Pakistan

Sami Ullah, MD 

Medical School: King Edward Medical University (Lahore, Pakistan)
Hometown: Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan

Mayobhav Vasistha, MD 

Medical School: Dr. D. Y Patil Medical College, Hospital, and Research Center (Pune, India)
Hometown: Gurugram, India

Lorena Vazquez Badillo, MD 

Medical School: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud (Ensenada, Mexico)
Hometown: Ensenada, Mexico

Irfa Zaheer, MD 

Medical School: King Edward Medical University (Lahore, Pakistan)
Hometown: Punjab, Pakistan

The group will begin their three years of training in July 2026 as interns following a two-week orientation period that begins on Monday, June 22.

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 3,100 applications, and conducted over 180 interviews. Many 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