El Dorado, Arkansas

Michael Fitts, PsyD., Interim Director

"The mission of AHEC South Arkansas is to provide state-of-the-art comprehensive, accessible health care for the people of South Arkansas by educating, nurturing, and supporting present and future healthcare professionals.” This mission challenges the employees of AHEC South Arkansas to remain focused. This Center has been in existence in El Dorado since 1973 and the Family Medicine Residency Program started in 1980. We have wonderful facilities which are currently housed in the Warner Brown facility in El Dorado, Arkansas.

 AHEC South Arkansas has many unique programs that we offer in El Dorado. The Family Medicine Residency, under the direction of Dr. Stephen King, is a 5-5-5 program. We are pleased that many of the graduates of this program reside in this area and surrounding counties. In addition to the residency program, we are committed to be a training site for medical students in the second, third and fourth year of medical school from the parent campus at UAMS. We are also the major provider of continuing education programs for health professionals in south Arkansas. Many of the credit courses and some degrees can be completed in El Dorado through the various colleges at UAMS.

Please click on the visit AHEC South Arkansas link above for additional text.

Contact Information for AHEC South Arkansas:

Michael Fitts, PsyD., Interim Director
El Dorado, AR 71731
Phone: (870) 862-2489
FAX: (870) 863-9341

If you are experiencing technical problems with any of the Regional Program sites, or see an error, please contact our support center at 1-800-547-8680, or . Please record any error messages with the name of the page, date you saw the error, and a description of the error.