Louisiana State University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

LSU New Orleans Med-Peds is an academically-embedded, safety-net-anchored program built around University Medical Center (a former Charity Hospital successor with Level 1 trauma, burn center, and high-acuity ICUs) and Children's Hospital of New Orleans, the state's only free-standing children's hospital, supplemented by community-hospital experience at Touro and Ochsner-Kenner. The curriculum is heavily ambulatory-integrated (40%+ outpatient in medicine, 60/40 inpatient/outpatient in pediatrics) with dedicated advocacy, community, and free-clinic rotations, Individualized Educational Units for research or focused interest, and a Hospitalist Track, reflecting a program that trains broad, autonomous generalists rather than subspecialty-first physicians. Scholarly activity is available and encouraged (regional SSPR/SSCI presentations, QI projects, faculty-mentored research) but not positioned as central to program identity; the explicit emphasis is on comprehensive care of underserved, high-acuity, and socioeconomically diverse populations across a uniquely regional referral base (patients from every parish in Louisiana and beyond). The program values residents drawn to New Orleans' culture and community, comfortable working across academic safety-net and community settings, and committed to volunteerism and comprehensive Med-Peds identity over narrow subspecialization.