The Department of Emergency Medicine was established as a formal department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1994. The residency training program has been active since 1986.
The department is very involved in the educational programs for medical students, medical residents as well as nursing, dental and allied health students. In addition to the residency program, fellowship opportunities are available.
Emergency Medicine currently has 23 faculty members, a fully accredited residency program and a division of medical toxicology. It has an active research program, aeromedical critical care transport service and a state disaster program called Mississippi Med1.
Our faculty also provides medical direction and oversight for the Simulation Laboratory and ACLS training services.
In 2003 the Department of Emergency Medicine at UMMC launched the TelEmergency™ program, or Tele-ER®. Developed to overcome limitations impacting access to care statewide, the program links collaborating emergency medicine trained physicians at UMMC with specialty trained nurse practitioners and physician assistants at rural sites, in real time, using state-of-the-art Telemedicine equipment.
