Internal Medicine Residency Program

Our program’s Mission is to develop physicians with the competencies and skillset required to become future healthcare leaders by exhibiting excellence in academics and high-quality patient-centered care.

Our Vision is to recruit and produce the best community-trained internal medicine physicians while improving our region’s healthcare through education, collaboration, and commitment to the patients we serve.

Please check out our website below and our social media page and see what our residents are up to – in and out of the hospital.

If you’re looking to train in a supportive, challenging, clinically excellent environment, MRHC is the place for you!

John Peyton Preece, D.O. FACOI, FACP

Internal Medicine Program Director

*Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

MRHC’s Internal Medicine Residency program accepts applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).

 

J. Peyton Preece, D.O., FACOI

 Program Director Internal Medicine Residency

Director of Student Medical Education

Valerie Norton, D.O.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Core Faculty

Director of Ambulatory Medicine

Ben Long, M.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Core Faculty

Director of Quality and Safety

Magnolia Hospitalist Group Director

Chris Tucker, M.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Core Faculty

Director of Simulation

Sidney Pace, M.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Mary Avery Poole, D.O.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Core Faculty

Director of Wellness

Chief Resident Tara George presents at AAIM 2022

2024 ACC Conference

Dr. Anan Rmilah presented at the conference in Atlanta, GA

 

Dr. Aaron Brooks presents at the 2019 American Thoracic Society National Conference

 

Dr. Heather Lusby, IM Residency alumna, presented a research poster at the Johns Hopkins HPVAA Conference

Dr. Jared Mullins presents at the Alabama/Mississippi ACP Scientific Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carlos Pfeiffer presenting Challenges and Implications of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a Patient with Pre-Existing Neurological Deficits poster at Alabama-Mississippi Chapters ACP Scientific Meeting June 2023 in Meridian, MS.

Dr. Sahar Jahan presents at the Alabama/Mississippi ACP Scientific Meeting

Dr. Aaron Brooks, Dr. Dantwan Smith, Dr. Taylor Smith, and Dr. Jared Mullins presented research posters and participated in the oral presentation category (and won 1st and 2nd place) at the Southern Medical Association Meeting in 2019.

 

Madilyn Slater presenting EVALI or COVID-19? A Diagnosis of Exclusion poster at Alabama-Mississippi Chapters ACP Scientific Meeting June 2023 in Meridian, MS.