Exciting new developments continue in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. An upgrade to departmental status in 2002 has resulted in rapid expansion of the program. The University of Mississippi Medical Center has committed substantial resources to the new department including up to twenty-four clinical and research faculty lines, new and well equipped outpatient clinics, physician extenders, new academic space, and expanded operating room opportunities. We now have superb faculty members in every subspecialty area. Our department has recently expanded to include both a Division of Dermatology and the ACT Center for Tobacco Treatment, Education, and Research.
The department has developed an outstanding reputation for its commitment to teaching of residents and medical students and ranks in the top 25 programs nationally in terms of NIH research funding. If you want to be part of a program that puts residents first and that will be constantly energized by growth and new discoveries, then you need to come visit us. You will not regret it. We are well on our way to having one of the finest residency programs in the United States.
Once again our residents achieved outstanding success on the 2009 Annual Otolaryngology Examination scoring among the top programs in the nation. Seven of our residents scored at or above the 90 th percentile within their resident group. Also, two of them also scored in the top 10 percentile of all residents taking the examination.
