Welcome to the Office of Academic Affairs
The University of Mississippi Medical Center supports six health professions schools on its main campus in Jackson and successfully graduates roughly 1000 health care professionals each year, many of whom choose to stay and practice in the state.
The Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs oversees the academic enterprise of UMMC. To support our academic mission, each member of our team plays an essential role in our continuing success as we work to identify and promote best practices in health care education, including the following:
- Academic planning and strategy
- Academic policies and procedures
- Continuing health professions education
- Faculty development and success
- Institutional accreditation
- Quality improvement and innovation in education
- Resources through the Rowland Medical Library
- Student services and success
Our goals are to provide quality education to our students and trainees and to promote lifelong learning to our alumni, faculty, and staff.
Thank you for visiting our webpage, and please feel free to browse through our many programs.
Six Schools. One UMMC.
That’s My Job: Admissions Counselors
Monday, July 28, 2025
Essential to UMMC’s educational mission, professionals from across the Medical Center’s six health sciences schools provide information, answer questions and help prospective students through the admissions process. Read More
Ceremony celebrates physicians whose work ‘shines a light everywhere’
Monday, July 28, 2025
For their remarkable achievements in patient care, research, teaching, community service and more, six eminent medical school alumni and a distinguished former Medical Center professor and surgeon were celebrated last week during an annual tradition that began more than a decade ago. Read More
Latest Articles
Aru family endowment will support future UMMC medical students
Published on Monday, July 21, 2025
Ribbon cut on renovations at UMMC School of Nursing in Oxford
Published on Monday, July 14, 2025
Photos: New School of Nursing reaches pinnacle
Published on Monday, July 14, 2025
MD-PhD program grows in numbers, but also in potential and staying power
Published on Monday, July 14, 2025
Faculty members awarded honor named for medical school legend
Published on Monday, June 30, 2025
Photos: UMMC Commencement 2025
Published on Tuesday, May 27, 2025
UMMC celebrates the graduating class of 2025
Published on Friday, May 23, 2025
#2025UMMCGrad: Love of games, puzzles lead to student’s future career
Published on Monday, May 19, 2025