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Carolinas Medical Center-Myers Park All patients in the continuity clinic practice are seen at CMC-Myers Park, located less than a mile from CMC-Main. A shuttle rotates between the clinic and the hospital every 20 minutes, and physicians park in a covered lot with key-card entry. Subspecialty medicine and general medicine clinics are located on the third floor, as well as an overflow clinic for urgent work-in patients. CMC-Myers Park also houses clinics in Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Orthopaedic Surgery.
General Medicine Practice During the three years, house officers attend continuity care clinic 1-2 half-days per week.
- Faculty members will see all first-year residents' patients for the first six months.
- Two attendings are always present for consultation and supervision.
- Our faculty to resident ratio is always less than 1:3, and averages one attending for two residents
- Full time ancillary staff at the clinic include: A Nutritionist/Dietitian, Diabetes educator,
Asthma educator and 2 Social workers - one is dedicated to the Infectious Diseases clinic.
On average, interns will see three patients per clinic session, PGY-2 residents will see four to six patients, and PGY-3 residents may see up to six to eight patients per session.
Subspecialty clinics House officers on subspecialty rotations attend one to two subspecialty clinics per week. These clinics are designed for patients with specific problems, requiring the expertise of a medical subspecialist. Each subspecialty clinic session lasts approximately four hours and is supervised by an attending subspecialist. There are no subspecialty clinic duties during the rotations on staff medicine, MICU and ED.
Current subspecialty clinic offerings that residents will be exposed to include:
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General Medicine consults
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Cardiology consults
- Cardiology and CHF Clinic
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Endocrinology consults
- Diabetes
- Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic

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Gastroenterology consults
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Hematology-Oncology consults
- Heme-Onc and Transplant Clinic
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Neurology consults
- Neurology and Movement Disorder Clinic
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Pulmonary consults
- Pulmonary, Asthma and Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
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