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New Baptist Internal Medicine Clinic Will Host Resident Rotations

As the new Baptist Medical Group - Oxford Internal Medicine clinic nears completion, preparations are being made to welcome its first patients in the coming weeks. In addition to offering a new point of primary care for residents of Lafayette County and the surrounding areas, it will also serve as a continuity clinic where resident physicians will rotate each month. The structure of the Internal Medicine residency program’s curriculum places four mouths of Internal Medicine rotations on each resident physicians’ schedule in a 12-month period. During those blocks, four of the trainees will alternate seven days on the hospital inpatient service and five days in the clinic. This allows many hospitalized patients to schedule a follow-up appointment with the same resident physician who cared for them in the hospital within 7 days of their discharge. If a patient sees another health care professional for their primary care needs, a follow-up visit to the Baptist clinic will not be intended to transition care from their current PCP. The appointments will be aimed at following up on medications, checking in on the patient’s progress since their hospital stay, and addressing any issues that have arisen in addition to a follow-up with their regular primary care physician. Just as any hospitalization record is available to a patient’s primary care physician, they can also view details from these clinic visits so that the patient’s full scope of treatment and care plan is clearly communicated. The clinic is located at 81 Ed Perry Boulevard in the Oxford Commons development in northeast Oxford. Just off Sisk Avenue, the clinic is at the end of a retail center that includes Pizzashop and Common Ground Coffee Bar, just in front of the Malco movie theater and Premier Lanes entertainment complex.

Transformed Graduate Medical Education Space Almost Ready to be Unveiled

Program Evaluation Committee Provides Guidance to Internal Medicine Residency

The Program Evaluation Committee for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi holds a broad range of responsibilities and meets monthly to provide guidance to the burgeoning program.

PEC members include:

• Seger Morris, DO – Program Director
• Jacob Whelan, MD – Associate Program Director
• Sumner Abraham, MD – Core Faculty
• David Duddleston, MD – Core Faculty
• Paul Levy, MD – Chief Medical Officer, BMH-NM
• Justin May, DO – Chairman, BMH-NM Department of Medicine
• Anne Sullivan, MD – Designated Institutional Official, Baptist Memorial Medical Education
• Bill Henning – CEO / Administrator, BMH-NM
• Sonia McKeithen - Assistant Administrator, BMH-NM
• Emery Newsom – Program Manager
• Once they begin their training, a resident physician will also sit on the committee.

The PEC’s responsibilities are:

• Acting as an adviser to the Program Director through program oversight
• Reviewing progress toward meeting the program’s self-determined goals
• Guiding ongoing program improvement, including the development of new goals, based upon outcomes
• Reviewing the current operating environment to identify strengths, challenges, opportunities, and threats as related to the program’s mission and aims
  
  

The PEC considers various elements in its assessments, including curriculum and quality and safety of patient care. As the program matures, the committee will also consider outcomes from prior Annual Program Evaluation(s), any notifications from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), as well as faculty evaluations, professional development, and well-being. The group’s focus on resident physicians will include well0being, recruitment and retention, workforce diversity, surveys and evaluations, achievement of the ACGME Internal Medicine Milestones, and much more.

Get to Know the Inaugural Class of Resident Physicians at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi

We are pleased to announce the inaugural class of Internal Medicine Resident Physicians at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi. These resident physicians will complete a three-year residency training program, the mission of which is 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.”

The twelve incoming clinicians each meet the program’s mission in their own unique way and already hold impressive accomplishments in their personal journeys toward careers in medicine.

They matched with BMH-NM in the National Resident Matching Program’s Main Residency Match after a rigorous recruitment, interview, and ranking process that took place from October – February. The program received over 340 applications, and a committee comprised of program leadership and core faculty physicians conducted over 110 interviews to determine a ranked list of trainees to fill the 12 positions. The new resident physicians will begin an orientation process in mid-June this year before starting their clinical rotations on July 1, 2021, and will serve communities in our region for years to come.

Inaugural Class of Internal Medicine Physicians
at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi

	Alexander Crossett, MD Hometown: Jackson, TN Moving to Oxford from: Memphis, TN Undergraduate: University of Tennessee-Chattanooga – Chattanooga, TN Medical School: University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine - Memphis, TN
Mahmoud Elshawwaf, MD Hometown: Zagazig, Egypt Moving to Oxford from: Houston, TX Medical School: Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine - Cairo, Egypt
	Michael Ghaly, MD Hometown: Savannah, GA / Montreal, Canada Moving to Oxford from: Savannah, GA Undergraduate: McGill University – Montreal, Canada Medical School: American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine  - Cupecoy, St. Maarten
Johnny Green, DO, MBS Hometown: Chalmette, LA Moving to Oxford from: Mandeville, LA Undergraduate: Holy Cross College – New Orleans, LA Graduate: Master’s of Biomedical Science, William Carey University – Hattiesburg, MS Medical School: William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine – Hattiesburg, MS
	Garrett Hadley, DO Hometown: Shawnee, OK Moving to Oxford from: Fort Smith, AR Undergraduate: University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, AR Medical School: Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine - Fort Smith, AR
Simra Kiran, MD, MSHA Hometown: Sheikhupura, Lahore, Pakistan Moving to Oxford from: Cincinnati, OH Undergraduate: Punjab University – Lahore, Pakistan Graduate: Master’s of Science in Health Administration, University of Louisville – Louisville, KY Medical School: King Edward Medical University - Lahore, Pakistan
	Joseph Kordsmeier, DO Hometown: Morrilton, Arkansas Moving to Oxford from: Fort Smith, AR Undergraduate: University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, AR Medical School: Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine - Fort Smith, AR
Shravanti Muthu, MD, MPH Hometown: Blue Bell, PA Moving to Oxford from: Blue Bell, PA Graduate: Master’s of Public Health, Boston University – Boston, MA Medical School: Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research - Tamilnadu, India
	Juvarez Ogbuneke, MD, MBA Hometown: Charlotte, NC Moving to Oxford from: Charlotte, NC Undergraduate: North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University – Greensboro, NC Graduate: Master’s of Business Administration, Davenport University – Grand Rapids, MI Medical School: Windsor University School of Medicine (Cayon, St. Kitts & Nevis)
Swetha Priyadarshan, MD Hometown: Kozhikode, Kerala, India Moving to Oxford from: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Medical School: P.S.G. Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (Coimbatore, India)
	Sajan Sarker, DO Hometown: Carrollton, TX Moving to Oxford from: Fort Smith, AR Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin – Austin, TX Medical School: Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine - Fort Smith, AR
Swarna Sarker, DO Hometown: Carrollton, TX Moving to Oxford from: Fort Smith, AR Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin – Austin, TX Medical School: Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine – Fort Smith, AR

Internal Medicine Residency Program Accredited at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi announced that it has earned accreditation for its Internal Medicine Residency Program and is accepting applications immediately.

The program, sponsored by Baptist Memorial Medical Education, is a three-year residency training program and the first medical residency in Oxford, Mississippi. Twelve positions have been approved for the first year, and 12 more will be added during each of the next three years, for a total of 36 residency positions.

After a rigorous development process, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited the program. It will participate in the 2021 National Resident Matching Program’s Main Residency Match, with the goal of welcoming the first class to Baptist North Mississippi this July.

“Achieving ACGME accreditation is a huge accomplishment, and this is a testament to the vision, expertise and diligence of the Baptist organization,” said Dr. Seger S. Morris, program director of the Baptist North Mississippi Internal Medicine Residency Program. “Our faculty has designed an innovative learning environment, Baptist has allocated substantial resources to ensure proper implementation of our plans, and students from around the world have already expressed interest in training here. I know our entire team will be proud to watch our first class of 12 resident physicians make their mark as the pioneers of this substantial boost to health care in North Mississippi and beyond.”

Residency, also known as graduate medical education, is the next step of medical education that follows graduation from medical school and prepares physicians to practice independently. Upon completion of a residency, physicians can also choose to further their career by entering fellowships. Across the Mid-South, Baptist Memorial Medical Education sponsors eight medical specialty training programs in various specialties, with two more in development.

Morris, Associate Program Director Dr. Jacob Whelan, and core faculty and specialty education coordinators ‒ who are all Baptist medical staff physicians ‒ will guide resident physicians toward milestone and personal goal achievements.

The physicians in the Baptist North Mississippi residency will divide their time between general internal medicine and subspecialty services; the ICU and ER; outpatient clinic settings; consultation rotations; and long-term care settings, almost all of which will be completed in Oxford, Mississippi. Three rotations – endocrinology, geriatrics, and infectious disease – will take resident physicians to Memphis, Tennessee, one month at a time. They will also participate in daily didactic lecture sessions and case presentations, as well as engage in leading-edge simulation experiences.

A new Baptist outpatient clinic will provide the setting for resident physicians to learn under attending internal medicine physicians while serving as area patients’ primary care physicians and offering follow-up care to recently hospitalized patients. The new facility is under construction and is scheduled to open in the Oxford Commons development this spring.

The program’s mission is to train clinically and procedurally competent internal medicine physicians who will provide high-quality, safe, cost-effective and patient/family-centered care for adults in North Mississippi, upholding the Baptist Memorial Health Care mission of “healing, preaching and teaching.”

“This is an extremely proud moment for our facility, our organization and our region,” said Bill Henning, CEO and administrator of Baptist North Mississippi. “Many people have devoted their time, talents and determination to making this training program a reality. We are pleased to further serve the residents of Mississippi by training the physicians of the future who will lead our communities to better health.”