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MEDICAL EDUCATION RESIDENCY
A Strong Decision For Your Training And Your Career…
Life is all about choices. Deciding the site for your residency training can often be as difficult as choosing a specialty. You want a strong, diverse and reputable academic center in a place that offers an attractive climate and lifestyle. The Residency Training Programs at Carolinas Medical Center offer all of these benefits.
Located in Charlotte, N.C., Carolinas Medical Center is an 861-bed tertiary care center and the core component of Carolinas HealthCare System, a not-for-profit, multifaceted, vertically integrated healthcare system. As the largest healthcare system in the Carolinas, it offers a wide variety of health and human services to residents of both North and South Carolina. Carolinas HealthCare's three guiding principles are to provide the best possible patient care, to share our knowledge and experience in medical education, and to learn through research.
Designated "Charlotte's Most Preferred Hospital" by the National Research Corporation, Carolinas Medical Center serves as a major referral center for an eight-county area.
Charlotte's three major sports franchises - the Carolina Panthers and Lowe's Motor Speedway - all have selected Carolinas HealthCare as their official healthcare provider to provide medical services at their events and for their players, their families and their staff.
An Enviable Quality Of Life…
While medical training will be your primary focus during your residency years, your lifestyle is also vitally important. Perhaps that's why so many of our medical professionals choose to continue careers here after completing there residencies.
As you will discover, Charlotte is a city of trees, and like the trees for which it's known, Charlotte continues to grow - blooming into one of the country's most beautiful and rewarding places in which to live and work.
For the past decade Charlotte has bustled with growth. Newsweek calls it one of "America's Ten Hot Cities." U.S. News & World Report headlines Charlotte as one of "America's Boom Towns." And the New York Times recognized Charlotte as challenging Atlanta for dominance in the South. Charlotte is also known as a financial hub - home of Bank of America - the largest financial institution in the country. The area's diversified economy has attracted some 300 Fortune 500 firms that now call Charlotte home. Here, you'll find a progressive school system, forward-thinking local governments, a moderate climate and much more.
A High Standard Of Quality Training…
As one of five academic medical center teaching hospitals in North Carolina, Carolinas Medical Center conducts residency programs in 12 medical and dental specialties and serves as an off-campus training site for three more. Along with Carolinas College of Health Sciences, it provides educational environments for more than 1,000 residents, medical students, physician extenders, nursing students and other allied health professionals annually. With its updated facilities, sophisticated technology, and advanced basic science and clinical research, Carolinas Medical Center is a particularly exciting place for future primary care physicians and medical subspecialists alike. This degree of technology does not replace compassion, as we emphasize human values and a spirit of caring for all who need care, regardless of status or financial ability.
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Dental & Oral Medicine Residency
The overall objective of the hospital-based Oral Medicine Residency Program is to produce
general dentists with a high level of clinical competency that will allow them to care
for patients who require an increased reliance on total patient evaluation, and alongside
their medical colleagues in the healthcare community.
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Family Medicine Residency
The Family Medicine Residency Program is designed to permit each resident to assume increasing
responsibilities for patient management commensurate with the resident's professional
development, knowledge and maturity.
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General Surgery Residency
The General Surgery Residency Program prepares general surgeons to enter academic or
clinical practice.
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Emergency Medicine Residency
The mission of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program is to provide top quality patient
care and resident education and to further the development of emergency medicine through
original laboratory and clinical research.
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Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency
The Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology offers an accredited four-year educational
and training program designed to offer the breadth and depth of experience necessary
for certification by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Internal Medicine Residency
Common sense and cost-effective evaluations are an integral part of the Internal Medicine
Residency Program's ambulatory education. Because primary care involves such a variety
of problems, training is also offered in geriatrics, outpatient orthopaedics, ophthalmology,
adolescent medicine, otolaryngology, gynecology and psychiatry.
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Pediatrics Residency
The Department of Pediatrics offers a fully accredited, three-year Pediatrics Residency
Program.
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Orthopaedic Surgery Residency
During the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, experience and responsibility are gradually
increased so that at the end of the program each resident is comfortable and competent
in all areas of orthopaedic surgery.
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency
The Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Carolinas Rehabilitation provides extensive
inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation experience in spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke,
pediatrics, orthopaedic/amputee, cancer, sub-acute, musculoskeletal medicine, and electrodiagnosis.
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Thoracic Surgery
The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center offers a comprehensive two-year fully accredited
training program in the sub-specialties of congenital, adult, and general thoracic surgery with the additional rotations of
endovascular intervention, peripheral vascular surgery, electrophysiology, and cardiovascular research.
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Vascular Surgery
The Vascular Surgery Residency Program at Carolinas Medical Center is a fully accredited program. The faculty will ensure that
residents are exposed to a wide range of clinical problems including the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive
disease, aneurysmal disease, visceral occlusive disease, cerebrovascular disease and venous and lymphatic conditions. Residents will
participate in all aspects of patient care, including pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative care and will perform diagnostic
arteriography, endovascular interventions and intravascular ultrasound.
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