<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4UvAct_0ycfl0kU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4UvAct_0ycfl0kU00" width="1200" height="600" >LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - South Central Regional Medical Center was given the green light to start a new residency program related to internal medicine.The approval comes from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.Program director Dr. Deepu Thoppil said resident physicians will take part in a three-year training regime after finishing medical school.Thirty slots will be open for the training.“After your four years of medical school, you have to complete your training as a doctor under a supervising physician,” he said.Those physicians will be responsible for evaluating and treating patients led by specialized doctors.Thoppil said internal medicine is a specialty that focuses on some of the sickest patients.He said this will mark the ninth program dedicated to internal medicine in Mississippi.“They will have a very difficult year,” he said. “Residency training is the part of the training that is the most difficult and it is what we say that really turns you into the physician that you’re going to be.”Some residents will be in-house and will be available 24 hours a day.Meanwhile, the hospital recently purchased the old Townhouse Motel for $1.2 million to house future residents.The hospital has said it does not have exact plans for the building yet.Thoppil said fostering ties with the community only will be strengthened by those few beds at the hospital for in-house residents, as well as whatever “dormitory” the motel might become.“I think our administration and our board has had a lot of great foresight into thinking that (residents will) need to live and be a part of our community and the best way to do that is housing and some version of a place for them to stay,” Thoppil said.The hospital said the new program also will help boost the local economy.The first class of 10 resident-physicians will begin in July.To learn more, click HERE.Want more WDAM 7 news in your inbox? Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.</div></body>

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LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - South Central Regional Medical Center was given the green light to start a new residency program related to internal medicine. The approval comes from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Program director Dr. Deepu Thoppil said resident physicians will take part in a three-year training...

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