Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency, partnered with Monroe Regional Hospital, is a family medicine residency program that provides modern training in a rural setting.

Residents can develop experience and knowledge with patients in a continuity clinic setting. The Residents rotate through many specialty rotations throughout the three-year residency program. 

Residency Center:
502 Jackson Street Aberdeen, MS 39730

Hours:
Monday- Friday 8 AM – 5 PM

Our Program

Our Mission

To train the next generation of Family Medicine Residents to provide quality, compassionate care while being prudent in the use of resources. To ensure access to health care of underserved communities within the rural setting while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion among the administration and residents.

Curriculum

The Boa Vida Family Medicine Program is a unique program focused on developing Family Medicine physicians trained to serve a rural population with compassion, quality, and inclusiveness that have fiscal responsibility. The curriculum is focused heavily on continuity of care and population health. Partnering with Qualexa Healthcare, BVFMR Residents are given a panel of patients to follow through their three years of learning to optimize health outcomes using HEDIS measures while managing medical loss. The BVFMR curriculum has two rotations in Practice Management and Population Health. The goal of the program is to develop physician leaders of the future who are well-prepared to manage risk and health outcomes.

The Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency Program provides Residents with outstanding training and skill development in a rural setting. We pride ourselves in delivering evidence-based, culturally aware, and patient-centered care. Residents can expect to build community, develop autonomy, and grow as leaders.

Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency’s unique program curriculum trains Residents in value-based care and population health management, focusing on controlling medical loss while maintaining quality measures.

Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency strengthens and improves access to primary care throughout the Golden Triangle Region of Mississippi. In addition, Residents will work with skilled physicians in the specialties of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, MS. This broad experience exposes Residents to the wide-ranging scope of primary care and health systems while still meeting the diverse needs of the local community.

We seek the most qualified applicants who can mirror our guiding principles. If you want to be prepared for a future of managing quality care and managing the cost of care delivery, please consider Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency Program.

Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency provides the Residents with a comprehensive and well-structured clinical education that will enable them to become competent board-certified Family Medicine Physicians. Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency settled in rural Mississippi communities to offer the Residents training opportunities that will give them knowledge and the confidence to practice rural medicine in small towns with limited access to care.

Boa Vida Family Medicine Residents will be exposed to excellent education rotations combining teaching, clinical service, compassionate patient care, and research.  Progressive supervision of Residents by qualified faculty/preceptors and adherence to proper working conditions and duty hours shall comply with the standards and requirements of the ACGME.

Participating Sites

Monroe Regional Hospital, Aberdeen, MS
OCH Regional Medical Center, Starkville, MS
King’s Daughters Medical Center, Brookhaven, MS
Aberdeen Lifecare Center, Aberdeen, MS
Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus, MS

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Benefits

Salary

First Year Resident: $65,000

Second Year Resident: $67,000

Third Year Resident: $70,000

Leave

Each Resident is entitled to 15 paid vacation days annually and eight personal days off.  All days are to be planned and approved in advance by the Program Director of the Residency Program. Three days for conference/educational meetings are allowed annually.

Allowance and Reimbursement

Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency offers a $2,000 relocation allowance. The Resident also receives $1,500 annually for educational use.  In addition, the program purchases and provides MKSAP19 for all Residents.

Uniforms

Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency will provide each Resident with white lab coats, which will be laundered at no charge. This includes 2 lab coats the first year and 1 lab coat per year thereafter.

Insurance

NWA-ECH provides a comprehensive insurance package for all Residents. This package includes health, dental, life, disability, vision, pharmacy and liability insurance for the Resident.  The Resident also has the opportunity to purchase additional insurance for their spouse and family at a reduced rate.

Professional Dues

Membership in the American Academy of Family Medicine (AAFM), American Medical Association (AMA), and Southern Medical Association (SMA).

Population Health Fellowship

Faculty

Jerry McKnight, MD
Program Director
Mehul Patel, MD
Erinn Benge
Program & Institutional Coordinator
Leslie Smothers, DO
Associate Program Director

We aim to promote an educational foundation that creates quality healthcare in rural communities.  Boa Vida Family Medicine Residency fosters ethical physicians integrating intellectual curiosity, compassionate care and personalized patient-centered care as their primary focus.

Now Accepting Applications for the 2025-2026 Class

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