The LSU hospitals have long maintained the dual mission of indigent care and health care education. The hospitals are the principal training sites of the state's institutions engaged in Graduate Medical Education, while also supporting a wide variety of Nursing and Allied Health Programs. Educational programs located throughout the state are affiliated with at least one of the eleven LSU hospitals.

The growth of GME in the U.S. has been continuous in quality and quantity, a dynamic process based on the reputation, expertise, capacity, and commitment of the States academic institutions. The interesting and unique feature of this arrangement in Louisiana is the major role of the state public hospitals in a state-wide health care delivery system inextricably linked with health professional students and GME programs.

Sixty percent of all residents and fellows in Louisiana are assigned and trained in these public hospitals at any one time, and practically all at some time in the course of their training programs.

Louisiana meets national averages regarding the ratio of residents & fellows/total physicians; Primary care/total physicians; and physicians/100,000 population.

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More than seventy percent of the state’s physicians, nurses, and Allied Health professionals trained in LSU Hospitals and clinics

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Over 1,150 medical students and fellows trained in LSU HCSD hospitals in fiscal year 2004-2005