Curriculum

Available Positions

  • Categorical – 21
  • Preliminary – None
  • Rural Residency Track – 1

We have moved to a NO 24 hour Call system, with a dedicated Night Float Team fully staffed with attending physicians from Internal medicine and other specialties.

General Rotation TemplateRural/PGY-1Categorical/PGY-1Categorical/PGY-2Categorical/PGY-3
General Internal Medicine / Cardiology5632
Medical ICU1-21-211
Night Medicine1111
Emergency Medicine11
Director's Month1
Pirate Medicine11
Geriatrics1
Ambulatory Medicine2222
Consult Elective3335
Outpatient Elective11

Total: 13 blocks per Academic Year

Note:

  • 1 block = 4 weeks
  • The above schedule is a generic example of an academic year and may be changed based on individual residents’ circumstances.

Internal Medicine Services

Cardiology – PGY 1-3

  • 4 interns + 3 seniors + 1 fellow + attending
  • East Carolina Heart Institute – 120 beds
  • Multidisciplinary rounds with Pharmacy
  • Weekly didactics taught by Cardiology fellow or Attending
  • Residents will learn to care for patients with NSTEMI, heart failure and arrhythmias along with exposure to CICU patients
  • Opportunities for residents to teach medical students rotating in cardiology
  • Opportunity to rotate in CICU for PGY-3 residents interested in pulmonary/critical care or cardiology fellowship

Emergency Medicine – PGY-2 or PGY-3

  • Level I Trauma Center that provides interventional medical services for acute, cardiac, and neurologic disease
  • Weekly Wednesday morning conference
  • Direct one-to-one interaction with the attending physician
  • Excellent opportunities to develop POCUS and procedural skills

General Internal Medicine – PGY 1-3

  • 2-3 interns + 1 senior + attending + 1 MOD
  • ECU Health Medial Center – 974 beds
  • Multidisciplinary rounds with Nursing, Pharmacy, and Case Management
  • Residents will learn to care for patients presenting with basic and complex medical pathology on a day-to-day basis.
  • Opportunities to teach M3 and M4 students
  • Excellent opportunities to develop Research, POCUS and procedural skills

Medical Officer of the Day (MOD) – PGY-2 or PGY-3

  • Internal medicine consults and triage where residents develop their triage skills to determine if patients need to be admitted, observed or can be discharged from the ED
  • MOD assigned to each general medicine team Manage ICU and clinic transfer calls as well as ED consults for admissions

Geriatrics – PGY 3

  • 2 residents + Geriatrician
  • 4 weeks providing care for patients at 3 local nursing homes – East Carolina
  • Rehab and Wellness, MacGregor Downs and Universal Healthcare. Residents will also have opportunity to do consults at Acadia center under attending supervision which will be piloted later this year
    Geriatrics clinic once a week

Medical Oncology Hospitalist Rotation – PGY 2-3

  • 1 senior Resident + 2 Attendings
  • Residents will take care of a wide variety of patients with various cancers; the role is to mainly focus on the medicine aspects while Hematology/Oncology consultants will focus more on chemo/radiation regimens
  • More autonomy for residents to manage critically ill patients and opportunity to perform procedures

Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) – PGY 1-3

  • 3-4 residents + fellow + attending / team
  • Closed ICU with 24 beds
  • Multidisciplinary rounds with Pharmacy, RT, PT/OT, Nursing, and Nutrition
  • Excellent opportunity to develop POCUS, procedural and ventilator management skills

Community Hospitalist Rotation – PGY 1 Rural resident and PGY 3

  • 1 senior Resident + Attending
  • Elective rotation
  • Residents will take care of a wide variety of patients while learning the function of the hospitalist in a community setting. This includes what care can be delivered in a community setting versus an academic setting while providing access to patients in critical access locations across Eastern North Carolina
  • Hospital management lectures by the Medical Director of ECU Health Hospitalists, Dr. Manning Exposure to open ICU and associated procedures

Night Medicine – PGY 1-3

  • 2 interns + 2 seniors + attending
  • 4 weeks of night medicine each year
  • Residents will be exposed to a wide variety of diseases and allows senior residents to increase autonomy

Pirate Medicine – PGY 2-3

  • 2 seniors + attending
  • Residents will be involved with orthopedic co-management and medicine consults from various departments

Procedure team- PGY 2-3

Residents will have the opportunity to learn and perform procedures under attending supervision for procedure consults

Elective Rotations

  • Away Rotation – PGY-2 or greater
  • Cardiology
    • Consults and outpatient clinic
    • Heart Failure – PGY-2 or greater
    • Electrophysiology (EP) – PGY-2 or greater
    • Intensive Care Unit (CICU) – PGY-3 if pursuing pulmonary/critical care or cardiology fellowship
  • Hematology/Oncology Inpatient Consult and outpatient clinic
  • Endocrinology Inpatient Consult and outpatient clinic
  • Gastroenterology Inpatient Consult and outpatient clinic
    • Advanced GI with access to advanced endoscopic procedures (ERCP and EUS) – PGY-2 or greater
  • Hospitalist Rotation – PGY-3 or greater
    • Can rotate at a community hospital and ECU Health Medical Center
  • Infectious Disease Consults and outpatient clinic
  • Medical ICU Elective – PGY-2 or greater
  • Nephrology Consults and outpatient clinic including transplant and glomerulonephritis clinic
  • Psychiatry Consults
  • Pulmonary Consults and outpatient clinic
  • Research
  • Neurology Consults
  • Hybrid Complex Medical Unit (Med-Psych unit)
  • Global Health Elective
    • Residents can rotate at sites located in Uganda, Zambia, or Eswatini; We are currently working on Tribal rotation in India. Please discuss with program leadership for more details

Facilities