Top Reasons to Choose CMC

The Department of Internal Medicine was reviewed by the ACGME/RRC [Residency Review Committee] in January 2007. In July 2007, our program received a five-year cycle of accreditation from the ACGME, the highest cycle length a program can receive from the ACGME/RRC.

Advantages at Carolinas Medical Center:

Family-type environment with close-knit faculty and residents
Friendly community hospital less than five minutes from downtown Charlotte
Practical emphasis on real world medicine
Enormous patient diversity
Extremely involved and accessible Chair and Program Director
Dedicated to ACGME work hour rules
Excellent fellowship placement
University-trained academic faculty
Daily conferences and Morning Report open to all
Medical Students from UNC-Chapel Hill year round
99 percent ABIM pass rate 1996-2008
24-hour ancillary services [phlebotomy, ABG's, IV team and transport]
State of the art technology
Faculty-run ABIM review course
Moonlighting opportunities available for PGY2/3 residents
Located in a terrific city - Charlotte!
Abundance of educational opportunities

Additional Benefits at Carolinas Medical Center:

Salaries at 75th percentile
- PGY-1 $45,227
- PGY-2 $46,365
- PGY-3 $47,988
10 days vacation plus five additional days at Christmas or New Year's
- Five additional days for PGY3 residents
Health and Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401K plan option
$1,900 spending money/allotment per year - may be used for CME in PGY2/3 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 at Carolinas Medical Center:

Entire hospital is wireless - allows connection to the Internet from any handheld device
Integration of ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD - Cerner Power Chart being implemented in both the hospital and outpatient clinics
Free Wireless Pocket PC [IPAQ] provided to every intern during Orientation - includes a patient data tracking program (Mercury MD)
MEDHUB system - all schedules, curriculum, evaluations and procedure logging are done online and evaluations are anonymous
UpToDate, MDConsult - available free from any computer
UNC Digital Library - also free, access to dozens of electronic textbooks and hundreds of electronic journals
Stentor - allows visualization of Radiology images - digital images are available on all computers
MUSE and MEDCON programs allow you to access all old Electrocardiogram [EKG] and Echocardiography reports
SECUREID passes issued to all residents allowing access to all of these programs from your home computer