The hospital medical staffs are appointed from the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Inpatients total about 26,000 annually with more than 360,000 outpatient and emergency visits every year. One mile west of campus, the Jackson Medical Mall houses the hospital's primary care clinics, the ambulatory specialty clinics and the Jackson Heart Study offices. The University is the only hospital in the state designated as a level 1 trauma center. The Sonny V. Montgomery Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, adjacent to the campus, is the Medical Center's principal teaching affiliate.
Students also gain clinical experience at community hospitals throughout the state.
Mississippi residents made up 84 percent of the student body. Thirty-two U.S. states and 34 foreign countries were represented in the remaining 16 percent of enrollment. Currently, the faculty totals 736. The original eight-story building is now the nucleus of a major academic health sciences complex. Funding came from self-generated revenue, private donations and the Mississippi Legislature.