[3] The School of Medicine also offers 17 residency and 34 fellowship training programs through the Office of Graduate Medical Education.

LSU President F. King Alexander said that the troubles date to 2013, when the private Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana assumed control of the teaching hospital as part of then-Governor Bobby Jindal's plan to privatize the state charity hospital system.

Alexander said that the foundation has not paid hospital bills in full and provides insufficient funding to sustain the medical school.

Allied Health has the widest arrangement of academic degrees, with undergraduate and graduate programs.

https://schoolofgradstudies.lsuhs.edu/academics/ The School of Medicine only offers the MD degree, but some students elect to join the rigorous combined MD–PhD program.