Columbia-based University of Missouri School of Medicine, in partnership with University of Missouri Health Care, will open an emergency medicine residency program in July 2014.
The program received approval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in September. The program's first class will include six to eight residents.
"We are pleased to partner with the School of Medicine to help create this new emergency medicine physician residency program," Mitch Wasden, EdD, CEO and COO of MU Health Care, said in the news release. "This new program represents MU Health Care's commitment as an academic medical center to providing world-class care to the people of Missouri, as well as educating the next generation of healthcare professionals."
The program is expected to help relieve the state's physician shortage, according to Les Hall, MD, interim dean and professor of internal medicine at the MU School of Medicine. "Like most of the country, Missouri faces a shortage of physicians in rural areas — a shortage that includes specialists in emergency medicine," he said in the release. "By creating this new residency program, our goal is to train more physicians for hospital emergency rooms throughout our state."
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