• Program promotes and supports housestaff autonomy in clinical decision-making and patient care.
   
• A tertiary referral center where residents are exposed to a wide variety of primary care admissions. 
   
• Completion of our program provides a diverse general medicine background suitable for confident entry into private practice or fellowship training.
   
• An intern/housestaff oriented training program that provides excellent back-up and appropriately graduated responsibility from intern to HO-II (medical consultant to the Emergency Department) to HO-III (medical consultant for the entire hospital).
   
• ABIM 2006 Pass Rate: 100%     Three-Year Rolling Pass Rate (2003-2006): 95%    
   
• Program is ideal size for housestaff camaraderie and allows for flexibility of scheduling (HO-II/IIIs make out their own schedules) and a supportive work environment.
   
• Accessible and responsive Chair, Program Directors, and Assistant Chiefs of Medicine (chief residents) with faculty commitment to excellence in patient care and resident education.
   
• Night float coverage for interns and supervising residents on all ward services insures compliance with ACGME duty hour restrictions.
   
• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ranks 44th in research funding among the nation’s 145 allopathic and osteopathic medical schools  (U.S. News and World Report 2008).
   
• Funding for research in the Department of Medicine in 2006 totaled $30,368,563.
   
• Well developed research curriculum, research electives (beginning in internship), research opportunities and faculty mentoring.
   
• Annual Resident and Fellow Research Day and monthly resident research forum.
   
• ABIM Research Pathway
   
• HO-II Retreat prepares residents for their teaching and leadership roles as new upper level residents.
   
• Excellent record matching graduates into competitive fellowship programs.
   
• Opportunities to explore community medicine through rotations at Forsyth Medical Center, Downtown Health Plaza, VA clinic and a teaching network of community-based private practitioners.
   
• Wake Forest ranks 18th in primary care (U.S. News and World Report 2007).
   
• Active Hospitalist Service provides care for patients admitted beyond resident caps.
   
• Breakfast and lunch provided at Morning Report and noon conferences. 
   
• In-Training Examination by the American College of Physicians provided for all housestaff in 3-year programs.
   

• Categorical and Primary Care house staff receive a free MKSAP.
   

• Department provides one-week educational leave for upper level residents to attend a conference (stipend provided in HO-III year).
   

• Advanced, well-integrated inpatient and outpatient electronic medical records accessible in hospitals, clinics, and at home.
   

• Personalized Semiannual Review Sessions provided for each resident with a member of the Housestaff Executive Committee.
   

• On-site Medical Center Childcare facility for hospital employees including residents.
   

• Opportunities for professionally useful moonlighting as an HO-II/III in a variety of settings.

North Carolina Baptist Hospital Highlights

• NCBH:  North Carolina Baptist Hospital; an 821-bed teaching hospital that is the region’s main tertiary referral center.  NCBH is WFUBMC’s primary clinical arm that includes inpatient hospitals, a community health center, a health maintenance organization and primary care centers
   

• WFUBMC:  Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center; an academic health system including NCBH, Brenner’s Children Hospital, the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging and all of the center’s subsidiaries, long-tern care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers.  The Medical Center now has 100 buildings on 290 acres, including a 196-acre research farm and a downtown research center.
   

• WFUBMC-CCC:  Wake Forest’s Comprehensive Cancer Center; is among only 1% of U.S. cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute as comprehensive. 
   

• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is one of America’s top 15 major teaching hospitals (Solucient 100 Top Hospitals, 2004) .
   

• WFUBMC is one of the 100 most wired hospitals (Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine 2007).
   

• North Carolina Baptist Hospital’s patient satisfaction scores are ranked in the top 1% of all academic medical centers by the Health Care Industry’s top satisfaction measurement firm (Press Ganey Assoc. 2003).
   

• House Officers:  647 total  (84 categorical Internal Medicine Residents)
   

• Registered Nurses:  1,945  LPNs + Nursing Assistants: 461
   

• Total Inpatient Admissions past fiscal year:  31,544
   

• Total Day-Hospital Admissions past fiscal year:  18,518
   

• Total ED visits past fiscal year:  84,000