Top Reasons to Choose CMC

What is it that Carolinas HealthCare System and Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) have to offer?

• A family-type environment
• Patient diversity
• Extremely involved and accessible chair and program director
• Excellent fellowship placement
• Medical students from UNC-Chapel Hill year-round
• 100 percent first-time pass rate on written board exam since 1996
• 24-hour ancillary services [phlebotomy, ABG's, IV team and transport]
• State of the art technology
• Location: Located in a terrific city - Charlotte!  
• Abundance of educational opportunities.

Additional Benefits

• PGY salaries at 75th percentile -  Salary and Benefits
• 10 days' vacation plus 5 days during the holidays
• Five additional days for PGY-3 residents (can also be taken a subsequent year)
• Free lunch daily plus a generous meal point allotment
• Free covered parking next to the hospital
• Free lab coats
• Free copying and literature searches.

Technology

• Free wireless pocket PC [IPAQ] with Mercury MD patient data tracking program
• MedHub system- allows all schedules, curriculum, evaluations, and procedure logging to be done online
• UpToDate and MDConsult - available free from any computer with internet access
• AHEC Digital Library - also free from any computer with internet access
• Dozens of electronic textbooks and hundreds of electronic journals
• Stentor - allows visualization of Radiology images and is accessible from all CMC computers
• SECUREID passes- allows staff access to all of these systems from their home computer.