Facilities

North Carolina Baptist Hospital, the major clinical teaching unit, is located adjacent to the School of Medicine, and together they comprise the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC), a tertiary care facility. The system incorporates 1,187 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term beds and services patients from North Carolina, the neighboring states and the world.

The newer facilities include Brenner Children's Hospital, a 160-bed "hospital within a hospital" that serves young patients, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of about 40 in the nation designated as comprehensive by the National Cancer Institute. It offers more than 200 cancer-related clinical trials.

Also affiliated is the Downtown Health Plaza of Baptist Hospital, an outpatient facility in Winston-Salem. Hospitals in Hickory, Salisbury, and Boone, North Carolina, also participate in the teaching program through the Northwest Area health Education Center (AHEC)..

The Coy C. Carpenter Library is the principal learning resource serving the academic needs of faculty, staff, and students. The Library’s 150,000 print volumes include extensive collections in all of the medical and surgical specialties and the basic sciences, as well as collections in nursing and allied health. The Library’s website offers access to nearly 100 subscription databases, 2,600 electronic journals, and 150 e-textbooks. Document delivery and interlibrary loan services provide fast delivery of articles by email, fax, or interoffice mail.

Wired Campus
Wake Forest has a gigabit Ethernet connection to the Internet. Wake Forest is also a key member of Internet 2, which is focused on providing advanced network technologies, and the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), which providesstatewide educational programs.

Highlight: Anatomical Resource Clinical Training Center

The Anatomical Resource Clinical Training Center (ARCTC) is a newly designed multidisciplinary laboratory learning center providing computational resources in a central learning environment surrounded by 18 vented downdraft cadaver dissection tables. A closed circuit CCD-TV system has been installed to connect 20-inch flat screen video monitors positioned at each dissection table. The monitors permit the simultaneous live broadcast of prosections and clinical procedures to each individual table on demand, as well as wireless internet service for the concurrent monitor display of data served from our eWake digital archives.

Through the Department of Radiology all medical students receive both CT and MRI data acquired from the actual cadaver that they dissect. In addition, students can now access, during dissection tasks, a series of electronic textbooks, digital atlas images, movie files, computer assisted dissection programs, as well as embryology and physiology animation resources to guide the application of Human Anatomy to specific clinical concepts and procedures. Laptop computer virtual microscope software allows students to operate a light microscope and display images at any magnification or field of view from a glass slide while working at the dissection table. With the application of technology to enhance student learning, the facility has been transformed from a classical Gross Anatomy lab to a state of the art learning center utilizing the cadaveric resources at every level of medical education and in multiple fields of clinical research.

Highlight: The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is an international leader in the translation of scientific discovery to clinical therapies. It applies the principles of regenerative medicine to treat human diseases and disabilities. The Institute is a premier tenant at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences Biomedical Research Campus in downtown Winston- Salem. The Institute and other research groups are anchors of the central district of the Piedmont Triad Research Park, (PTRP), a 200-acre biotechnology initiative that will be the largest urban research park of its kind in the nation. The Institute will serve as an incubator for new biotech businesses generated from the transfer of technologies discovered in its laboratories. In this way, Wake Forest University Health Sciences is building a research and development model that links academic medicine with knowledge-based economic development. The North Carolina Biotechnology Center is a tenant of PTRP. The Biotechnology Center facilitates partnerships between government, Community-based clinical experiences in the first year, as well as a focus on general population health, are hallmarks of the curriculum. The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine business and higher education to advance biotechnology economic development. WFIRM works in close collaboration with the Piedmont Triad Research Park and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.