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 even 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. All specialties are represented. Our emergency department, both a level one adult and pediatric trauma center, has an annual volume of 92,000 visits annually and increasing and sees the entire spectrum of human illness. Brenner Children’s Hospital, a 160 bed tertiary care center for children, is located on campus. Moses Cone Memorial Hospital located in Greensboro, NC is our affiliated community hospital. Our residents rotate through their busy emergency department for a valuable “community ED” experience.
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 is NC’s fourth largest county with a population of 340,000. Winston-Salem is nationally known for its love of the arts and is home to many Fortune 500 companies including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, BB&T, Dell Computers, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.
All of this combined with a friendly cooperative environment very supportive of Emergency Medicine (we have the first endowed Chair in EM in the US) makes our program one of the best in the country.