Fellowship Program Highlights

Highlights of the Rheumatology fellowship program include:

• Year-round hospital consultation service at University of Mississippi Medical Center and the VA Medical Center
• Multiple half-day fellow/faculty University Pavilion clinics per week
• Fellow VA Medical Center clinics
• Experience with Rheumatology Infusion Service
• Access to musculoskeletal ultrasound and support for training
• Training in managing metabolic bone disease and osteoporosis with access to bone mineral densitometry and certified interpretation with clinical recommendations
• Elective rotations in a number of relevant fields such as pediatric rheumatology, dermatology, musculoskeletal radiology, sports medicine, neuromuscular neurology, and others
• Extensive offering of educational conferences with faculty involvement that includes clinical cases, clinical and basic topic review, journal club, multidisciplinary conference, core and special topics in internal medicine
• Support for buying textbooks, travel to regional and national conferences, board review materials, and presentations
• Strong focus on scholarship and quality improvement