PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Welcome to the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R). The Department of PM&R is located within the Carolinas Rehabilitation on the campus of Carolinas Medical Center (CMC). CMC is an 861 bed Acute Care Hospital, and is the largest of North Carolina's five Level 1 Trauma Centers and the only such facility in the Western NC region. CMC is one of five medical centers in NC designated as an Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospital. The Department of PM&R is one of 10 Academic Departments at CMC. CMC offers comprehensive, state of the art emergency medical, trauma, and surgical care rivaling that of even the most elite academic centers.

Carolinas Rehabilitation is a 118 bed Acute Rehabilitation Hospital connected to CMC via a 400 foot underground tunnel. This underground tunnel provides a direct and dry route between Carolinas Medical Center and Carolinas Rehabilitation, laying the proverbial "groundwork" for the strong connections and collaborations that exist today. Both facilities (Carolinas Medical Center and Carolinas Rehabilitation,) are part of Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the nation's 3rd largest public healthcare system. CHS manages manages 4,300 licensed beds in North and South Carolina and has approximately 25,300 employees.

Please feel free to visit the other links within CHS's website http://www.carolinashealthcare.org/ to get a better idea of what our System and program is all about. We are very excited about what we have to offer and that you have taken the time to explore our website. We hope that the site answers all the question that you may have but if not feel free to contact us.

Mission Statement:
The mission of the Department of PM&R at Carolinas Medical Center/Carolinas Rehabilitation is to train residents in all aspects of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Our goals are to produce a resident with broad based skills with the ability to directly enter a general private or academic practice. In addition, skills will be provided that will help to set the foundation for expertise in areas of Neurotrauma (Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury), Stroke management, Prosthetics and Orthotics, and Musculoskeletal Medicine.

With an ideal faculty to resident ratio our goal is to provide concentrated teaching at the bedside, in the clinic, and during a very structured didactic curriculum. Our efforts through the years have focused on hiring faculty with a strong interest in teaching, and recruiting faculty within the private practice community to assist in our teaching program. This has helped to achieve our goal of providing training and experience in PM&R that encompasses all potential practice settings and allows exposure for all or our residents to the many facets of PM&R practice.