Emergency Medical Services University Hospital, the only hospital in the state which meets the requirements of a level I trauma center, is a key component of the Central Mississippi Emergency Medical Services District. It serves as the resource hospital and medical hub of EMS activity. Emergency medicine residents are thus exposed to EMS activities daily from the onset of their clinical training. They learn first-hand how a tightly controlled EMS system operates and to communicate with ambulance personnel by radio and in the department. University Medical Center also provides a critical care helicopter transport system that is based out of the Emergency Department.
Residents get hands-on experience with helicopter dispatch, as well as actual flight experience.
All faculty members are board certified or board prepared in emergency medicine. The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is the health sciences Campus of the University of Mississippi. The Medical Center opened in 1955, but its beginning goes back to 1903, when a two-year medical school was established on the parent Oxford campus. In Jackson, the Center started with a four-year medical school with a nursing department, which was granted school status in 1958, a library, and a teaching hospital. The School of Health Related Professions was added in 1971 and the School of Dentistry in 1974.