Willis Knighton Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Willis Knighton is a new, community-based internal medicine program (inaugural class, currently recruiting its first chief resident) housed within a large not-for-profit health system serving Shreveport and the broader Ark-La-Tex region, with a mission explicitly tied to retaining physicians for Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas communities. Clinical training draws on a four-hospital system with substantial acute-care, transplant, cardiac, and critical-care volume, and the curriculum uses a 4+1 continuity clinic structure with rotations in transplant, nephrology, and subspecialty medicine. Scholarly activity is structurally built in from year one (research methodology training, mandatory case presentations, poster/publication expectations, monthly research meetings) but framed as a supportive requirement rather than a hallmark of academic identity. Program aims explicitly state graduates should be prepared either for autonomous practice or subspecialty fellowship, indicating a dual-track orientation rather than a fellowship-pipeline focus.