Family Medicine Residency
EC HealthNet Family Health Center is a family medicine residency clinic that offers a convenient solution for the entire family including children and infants.
Our clinic is part of the EC Health Network Family Medicine Residency Program and provides an opportunity for residents to gain experience with patients in a continuity clinic setting while the residents rotate through many different specialty rotations throughout the 3-year residency program. One of the many benefits of choosing a resident as a primary care physician is that they can treat patients in the clinic and continue care if that patient is admitted to the hospital. The Family Medicine Residency Clinic is the only family medicine clinic in this area that offers this benefit.
Services offered in our clinic are as follows:
• Acute Care
• Compressive Care from birth-nursing home
• Chronic Care
• Continuous continuity of Care
• Preventative health/wellness
• Women’s Health
• Physicals (adults and children)
• Minor procedures
• Newborn and Pediatric services
• Home-Visits
The Clinic is located at 905c South Frontage Rd.
Meridian, MS 39301
Clinic Hours
8:00am - 5:00pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
8:00am - 12:00pm Wednesday
To Schedule an appointment call 601.482.4955
Our Program
Curriculum
• EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency will provide the residents with a comprehensive and well-structured cognitive and clinical education that will enable them to become competent board- certified family medicine physicians, who are able to provide high quality patient care to the community, and to relieve the regional and national physician shortage.
• EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency will offer the residents training opportunities in rural Mississippi communities that will give them not only the knowledge but the confidence to practice rural medicine in small towns with limited access to care.
The program will accept applications through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) and participates in the National Matching Program.
• EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency Program offers a structured curriculum with supervision of the resident facilitating ethical, professional and personal development, while ensuring safe and appropriate care for patients. Family Medicine Residents will be exposed to excellent education rotations combining teaching, clinical service, compassionate patient care, and research. Progressive supervision of residents by qualified faculty/preceptors and adherence to proper working conditions and duty hours shall be in compliance with the standards and requirements.
EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency offers the following curriculum in each year of residency:
• EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency will provide residents with ethical, professional, and educational backgrounds in which the curricular requirements, as well as the relevant requirements for the residents’ work environment, scholarly activities, and competencies can be achieved.
• EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency is committed to keep the right balance between education and service, as evidenced by work hour schedules inclusive of academic and research opportunities and attendance at clinical training and educational activities.
• EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency is committed to our residents with an effective curriculum that includes seminars, teaching lectures by the faculty and visiting lecturers, continuous case conferences, journal clubs, and individual supervision. The program offers a difficult air-way course (RCAM a practical guide to managing airways in the rural setting) that is followed up with a cadaver lab where residents practice skills with hands on training from local physicians and Sam Marshall (author of the curriculum). The program also offers an Electrocardiography Course for family physicians (The Essentials) taught by Dr Tom Milhorn (author of the curriculum).
Program Benefits
Salary Package
PGY1 $44,000
PGY2 $45,000
PGY3 $46,000
In addition to salary, EC-HealthNet provides
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Medical Mal-Practice
Individual Medical Insurance
State License Fees
DEA Fees
Membership Dues
Educational Stipend
Conference Registration Fees (PGY3)
Required Course Fees
Residents will also have the option to purchase benefits including:
Long-term disability
Short-term disability
Cancer Policy
A Message From Our Director
EC-HealthNet Family Medicine Residency Program was founded on the principle to teach family medicine physicians to meet the critical need for patient care within rural settings. The program's teaching methods and training curricula are designed to provide residents with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed and flourish as primary care providers.
Our program began as a joint mission of several local health organizations, including Rush Foundation Hospital and Anderson Regional Medical Center. Under the consortium model, we offer many unique training opportunities which include the following
• Exposure to inpatient medicine through a resident inpatient service
• Experience in long term care through nursing home patients
• Critical access hospitals that provide education in critical access emergency care
• Exposure to rehab protocols within a swing-bed setting
• Training in care of long-term critically ill patients within an LTAC facility
• Outpatient medical management and care within the EC HealthNet Family Health Center where we
manage patients from birth to geriatrics.
Our residents also work side by side with multiple community preceptors to have one on one experience managing medical issues in areas including cardiac care, emergency room care, surgical care, orthopedics, pulmonary medicine, nephrology, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatric care. The residents also have multiple didactic courses including an emergent airway course and an electrocardiogram course. The curriculum is tailored to provide residents with knowledge and confidence to work within the rural setting.
Finally, our program is built on a family environment that provides residents with not only the academic support needed to grow in the field of family medicine but also the social and well-being support needed to thrive as they begin the next chapter in their medical careers.
If you have any further questions regarding our program, please feel free to contact us to schedule a site visit or clinical rotation.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sarah Grabmiller
Program Director
Residents / Faculty
What is a Resident?
The physicians in our program have all finished medical (allopathic or osteopathic) school and are all licensed physicians. This program provides these physicians with three additional years of training to reinforce their specialty and subspecialty education and allows them to become board-certified physicians through the American Board of Family Medicine or the American Osteopathic Board for Family Physicians. The residents are supervised and have access to many faculty/preceptors in each specialty of medicine.
Meet Our Residents
PGY1
Tiffany Chapman, DO
Edward College of Osteopathic Medicine
via Auburn Campus
Jisun Kang, DO
Lincoln Memorial University- DeBusk
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Susie Mao, DO
Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jose Menendez, DO
Nova Southeastern University
Urooj Shahid, DO
William Carey University
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Bailey Strope, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine
PGY2
William Brown, DO
William Carey University College
of Osteopathic Medicine
Jennifer Geiger, DO
William Carey University College
of Osteopathic Medicine
Elena Louie, DO
Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
Zeke Nichols, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Minh Pham, MD
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Areej Tariq, MD
Army Medical College
PGY3
Claire Harper, MD
Chief Resident
Trinity School of Medicine
Daniel Kahkshooy, MD
Ross University School of Medicine Dominica
Ronnie Naramore, DO
Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
Brody LeBlanc, DO
William Carey University College
of Osteopathic Medicine
Dennis Matthews, MD
American University of Antigua
College of Medicine
Andalib Danandeh, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jason Brown, MD
American University of Antigua
College of Medicine
Meet Our Staff
Dr. Robert Berg
Dr. James Lee Valentine
Dr. Sarah D. Grabmiller
Dr. Tom Milhorn
Angie Burks
Project Coordinator
Eilease Roske
GME Administrative Assistant
Dr. Jay Johnston
ALUMNI
How many months of Inpatient Service for Interns?
4 full months of adult inpatient care and 2 weeks of pediatric inpatient care.
Do residents follow Nursing Home patients?
Yes, the residents are assigned patients at a local nursing facility and residents are required to follow them monthly or as needed at their own schedule.
What type of Community Outreach is available at EC-HealthNet?
The residents participate in many local community events both healthcare and community related. The residents conduct monthly educational programs with the local free clinic as "A Healthy You", sports physicals with all local schools, health awareness campaigns, homeless coalition, food pantry, local church organizations and health fairs. There are many volunteer opportunities with the local boy scouts, sheriff department, trauma region and the State Health Department campaigns.
What is Systems Management?
The week prior to and the week of Christmas, all residents attend daily lectures that cover such topics as resident wellness- mental and physical, billing and coding, financing homes, student loan re-payment, practice options, contract negotiations, banking and finance for physicians, financial planning, lectures from EC-HealthNet Alumni- "Life After Residency", skills labs- suturing, casting, OMT, ultrasound
What changes will the program undergo in the next 3 years?
Osteopathic recognition through the ACGME
What is the Didactic Schedule?
Didactics is on Wednesday Afternoon 12:00-5:00 and includes physician lectures, journal club, case presentation, board review study questions, grand rounds monthly. There are skills labs included in the didactic schedule throughout the year.
What is the area like and is there to do outside of residency?
Meridian has a small town feel with all the amenities you would expect in a larger town.
Meridian is centrally located with an airport and easy access (2-4 hours) from the beach- Gulf Shores AL, Biloxi MS, New Orleans LA, Birmingham AL.
Residents enjoy attending entertainment at the Riley Center, the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience, the Meridian Symphony, the Meridian Little Theatre
and there are many outdoor activities such as Bonita Lakes- Please visit www.meridianms.org
What benefits beyond the salary package are included?
The base salary is just that- many benefits are reimbursed to the resident instead of included in the salary. The program reimburses the resident for medical license, DEA registration, Board Exams, Study Materials- per year, lab coats, conference registration-travel-lodging (upon approval).
How Much Family/Personal time do residents get?
27 days total... The program allows sick days and FMLA according to ACGME regulations. EC-HealthNet is a family friendly environment.
Where do most residents live?
Meridian and surrounding area. Most of the residents choose to live in Meridian or Lauderdale County. There are many housing options from apartments, duplex housing, rental houses and some residents have chosen to purchase a home. We have contacts with local realtors and bankers to help residents in the housing market. There are many housing options in the surrounding counties also- Newton, Philadelphia, Dekalb, Enterprise, Quitman and West Lauderdale.
What are the benefits of being an “unopposed hospital?”
There are no other residency programs in the region, so the residents have one-to-one learning opportunities with preceptors. The program hosts medical students on 3rd and 4th year medical school rotations and there are nursing programs at the local colleges so other learners are present within the health systems. The residents get hands on training and medial knowledge which enhances the education experience on rotations.
What Moon-Lighting opportunities are available?
EC-HealthNet residents are encouraged to moon-light and have several options available for this experience. The residents volunteer at The Free Clinic of Meridian which serves a niche patient population in the region. The residents are allowed to work in urgent care clinics and emergency departments of local hospitals and critical access hospitals in the region. The residents are signed off in their PGY-2 and PGY-3 year to work according to knowledge and experience and upon license and DEA registration.
How are faculty-resident interactions?
EC-HealthNet faculty and residents work together in many areas of the program, from rules and regulations, to protocols, mock codes and research. EC-HealthNet began as an AOA accredited program but has since completed accreditation through ACGME. This new accreditation has brought about many changes and resident input has been valuable as they have a better understanding of the rotations and what improvements will enhance the educational experience.
What do residents do for fun?
The residents gather on occasion for cook-outs and art projects. Meridian has several athletic organizations, Young Professionals of Meridian, The Meridian Theatre, The Riley Center, The Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center, Bonita Lakes. There are many opportunities for concerts, art and dining experiences. EC-HealthNet sponsors a Christmas Party and Crawfish Boil each year for residents and their families.
Criteria for Applications through MATCH
EC-HealthNet does not sponsor visa.
Applications are only accepted through ERAS.
Applicants must have a minimum of 3 letters of recommendation.
Applicants must have graduated medical school within the last 3 years.
FMG applicants must have completed at least 50% of their medical school rotations in the US.
FMG applicants must have passed Step 1, 2 and CE Exams. (no more than 6 combined attempts)
FMG applicants must be ECFMG certified.
CONTACT US.
Program: echealthnet@gmail.com
Chief Resident: chief.resident.echn@gmail.com
How To Apply
Only electronic applications via the
Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
are reviewed for interview invitations.
All PGY-1 positions are selected through the
National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)
The East Central Mississippi Health Network, Inc
NRMP number is 1202700560.
No visa sponsorships available
Address
905c South Frontage Rd.
Meridian, MS 39301
Phone
+1 (601) - 484-2793
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