McComb, Miss.-based Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has received accreditation for its new family medicine residency program, the Daily Leader reported Feb. 28.
SMRMC received its accreditation from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education.
The three-year program is slated to start in July 2024 and will recruit physicians who have graduated medical school. It will give these students the opportunity to become board-certified in family medicine.
The first class will begin with four to six residents and is expected to grow to 16-18 residents within three years.
The program will include rotations in multiple specialties in 13 four-week blocks.
"This new residency program will impact our community in transformative ways," Lucius Lampton, MD, a family physician and member of the state's board of health, told the publication. "Southwest Health will become an academic medical center, which will prove to be critical for the medical development of our institution and our area."