Residency
Well Established:
In continuous operation and fully accredited since 1974, the Emergency Medicine Residency at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) is the oldest program in the Southeast and one of the founding programs in the country. We are proud of our heritage but more excited about our future.
Clinical Setting:
We are a university based training program located in Winston-Salem, NC. WFUBMC is an 830 bed tertiary care institution affiliated with the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Our state of the art Emergency Department has an annual volume of in excess of 90,000 visits annually and increasing. WFUBMC Emergency Department, both a Level One Adult and Pediatric Trauma center, sees the entire spectrum of human illness. Brenner Children’s Hospital, a 160 bed tertiary care center for children, is located on campus. Forsyth Medical Center, our sister institution, is the model of a busy community hospital. Our residents rotate through the FMC E.D. in order to gain valuable exposure to a busy community practice. That Department sees a similar patient volume as WFUBMC each year and is staffed by full time clinical faculty, all of which are residency trained in Emergency Medicine.
City:
Winston-Salem is a medium sized city offering 90% of the amenities of a larger metropolitan area with 10% of the hassles. Winston-Salem is NC’s fourth largest city with a population of 220,000. (Forsyth County population of 340,000).Winston-Salem
is flanked to the west by mountains (with snow skiing available in the winter) and to the east by the coast (beautiful beaches), all within reasonable driving distance. Combine this with the low cost of living, low crime rate and the charming character of this southern city to make Winston-Salem the ideal place to live. In fact, most of our residents are homeowners and even walk to work.
All of this combined with a friendly cooperative environment very supportive of Emergency Medicine (we have the first endowed Chair in EM in the world) makes our program one of the best in the country.