LSU Health Sciences in Shreveport gives you the unique opportunity to take the lead- not
to simply follow senior staff, but to get the hands-on training that actually makes a competent,
skilled and experienced family practitioner for any of the continously changing medical practice
settings of the future.
First-year residents typically see their panel of patients one half-day a week, second-year
residents two half-days a week, and third-year residents three half-days a week.
Patients of the Center who require hospitalization are admitted to the family practice service.
An upper-level family practice resident, first-year resident,and often a senior medical student
make up the ward team, with supervision by a faculty member.
Shreveport offers an array of activities. You can enjoy baseball, bass fishing, Broadway,
and Ballet. If you want to party, this is the place, with Mardi Gras balls and parades, festivals
celebrating crawfish and Holiday in Dixie. You`ll also find opera, the symphony, art exhibits
and galleries.
The Shreveport/Bossier City area is the cross roads of Northwest Louisiana with easy access
to Dallas. Sitting at the center of a cross roads of air, rail, road and water transportation,
Shreveport is poised for a development as a global market. A $26 million moderization project
at the Shreveport Regional Airport will rank it among the best in the South. Shreveport`s
future keeps getting brighter.
The Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in Shreveport was founded for
the express purpose of training family physicians. The result is a long tradition of family
medicine training in a university medical school environment. Residents receive training in
a hospital with a high volume of patients, and receive a graduated degree of responsibilities
under appropriate supervision. Approximately 25 percent of all residency training takes place
at the Christus/Schumpert Medical Center, a large private medical center located only two
miles from the LSU hospital. This community-based training occurs during the second and third
years of residency and offers residents the advantage of working directly with a private preceptor
in a private practice setting. By gaining experience at both medical centers, residents are
able to draw from the very best of both university and community settings to provide optimal
family practice residency training.
A Rural training program is located in Vivian, LA, 50 miles from Shreveport. Residents in
this tract complete the same first twelve months of training at LSU in Shreveport as other
residents. Their second and third years of training occur primarily in Vivian, with selected
training in Shreveport. This program offers intense hands on experience in a rural setting.
An added strength of this residency program is the strong compliment of residents, all of
whom have earned a reputation for excellence at LSU and Schumpert. The residency program offers
a large diversified family medicine faculty and first-rate training facilities. Procedural
training ranks among the top in Family Medicine nationwide. Residents are taught to perform
procedures, such as flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, EGD, rhinolaryngoscopy, colposcopy,
LEEP,and cardiac stress testing, and advanced skin surgery.Procedural training is balanced
with appropriate emphasis on the psychosocial aspects of family medicine. Residents can choose
elective training in high risk and surgical obstetrics; and international missionary electives.
Rotations in rural family practice settings are available and encouraged. Moonlighting to
augment the residency experience, and salary is also available.
We encourage you to visit our facilities, meet the faculty and residents,and learn more about
our residency program. For additional information, please call or write:
Michael Harper,MD
Program Director
Department of Family Medicine and Comprehensive Care
Louisiana State University Medical Center
1501 Kings Highway
P.O. Box 33932
Shreveport, La. 71130-3932
Phone: (318) 675-5815
Fax: (318) 675-7950