The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences said it received accreditation last week for an internal medicine residency program at its Fayetteville campus from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
The first eight resident physicians will arrive in July to serve their residencies at Mercy Health System Northwest Arkansas in Rogers and at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville. The postgraduate program will admit eight physicians per year for a three-year specialized residency.
“Establishing an internal medicine residency here was a major goal we had from the very beginning of this regional campus in 2007 and it is a credit to good work by so many — including our clinical partners at Mercy Health and the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks — to reach this point,” Dr. Peter O. Kohler, vice chancellor for UAMS Northwest Campus, said in a news release.
In addition, the residents will see patients at a new UAMS Northwest Campus outpatient clinic opening for the program next year.
UAMS already has 30 family medicine and two psychiatry resident physicians in the region. The regional campus also has 201 students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and the allied health professions — including the first 24 students in the physical therapy program that started classes in August.
Internal medicine specialist Dr. Thomas K. Schulz joined UAMS in January as director for the internal medicine residency program. He said he expects the program will start receiving applications from fourth-year medical students within days.
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