Prospective Applicants
We appreciate your interest in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program here at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is a great starting point to find out more about both our facility and our program.
Currently, if you would like to apply for our residency program, we only accept standard electronic applications through ERAS. Please refer to the AAMC website for the most up-to-date timeline for application opening and submission. Your school will also have more specific information on getting registered for the ERAS program.
Our deadline for applications is November 1. Addendums to applications will continue to be downloaded. However, complete applications received after the deadline are not guaranteed to be reviewed. We review all applications online, eliminating the need for folders with miscellaneous documents either emailed or mailed in. Three letters of recommendation are required—one of which should be from an Emergency Medicine physician.
Carolinas Medical Center is the flagship of Atrium Health, one of the largest public, nonprofit healthcare systems in the United States. We are an 874-bed hospital and regional Level 1 trauma center with an emergency department that sees more than 120,000 patients annually, including 30,000 in Levine Children's Hospital's emergency department which is housed within the main hospital. There is no need to travel to a remote campus in order to bolster your educational experience. All rotations, faculty offices, didactic conferences and simulation experiences are conveniently located on a single campus.
Educational conferences are provided Thursdays from 8 a.m. to noon via a stimulating mix of traditional lecture, small group interactive discussions, hands-on-skills stations, and adult and pediatric M&M conference. Lecture-based learning is supplemented by online multimedia offerings and monthly experience at the Carolinas Simulation Center.
We leverage technology to enhance resident education using audience response systems, virtual teleconferencing, social media and a weekly recap of didactic material. In addition, we use this website to provide full-text access to carefully selected high yield educational materials, organized by rotation. You'll spend your time reading, not figuring out what to read.
What should you look for in a residency program?
Residents should have the opportunity to work side by side with leaders in the field. Walking the halls at CMC you will enjoy the open door policy of acknowledged leaders in emergency ultrasound, sepsis care, trauma, disaster medicine, therapeutic hypothermia, airway management, emergency cardiology, and emergency stroke care. Your mentors are ACEP speakers, recipients of NIH grants, and recipients of institutional teaching awards. Drop by our offices and take in the knowledge and experience of contributors to peer-reviewed journals and textbooks such as Rosen's Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Barkin's Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. CMC EM faculty occupy key roles across the institution, including medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and medical director of the Center for Prehospital Medicine and the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (MEDIC). Interdepartmental initiatives such as Code Cool, Code Sepsis, and Code STEMI, instituted under the expert guidance of EM faculty, have improved patient outcomes and decreased mortality in these key areas.
Your residency should provide a rich pediatric experience. Our pediatric emergency department is staffed by faculty from the department of emergency medicine, five of whom are board certified in both pediatrics and emergency medicine. Among them is our fearless program director, Dr. Sean Fox, who writes Pediatric EM Morsels, which provides weekly educational pearls dedicated to pediatric emergency care.
You will want extensive experience in bedside ultrasound. Our emergency department has eight ultrasound machines that are in continual use, not including portable Butterfly IQ ultrasound devices. All have extensive doppler and digital capability. The annual volume of emergency ultrasounds performed has grown each year to an ultrasound procedure census in excess of 6,000 per year. Attending physicians are credentialed and a quality assurance program run by our ultrasound faculty audits every ultrasound that is performed and provides feedback. Ultrasound is used extensively for resuscitation (both medical and traumatic), pregnancy, abdominal evaluation, cardiovascular evaluation, soft-tissue, musculoskeletal, ocular, and for procedural guidance. Our ultrasound machines wirelessly transmit digital images and videos to our QA software and management system.
Your residency should provide a rich EMS experience. During their ED rotations, PGY2 and PGY3 residents routinely provide online medical control for the county EMS system (MEDIC). The Center for Prehospital Medicine welcomes those with a passion for teaching at the EMT-basic and EMT-paramedic level. In addition to a dedicated month with MEDIC, voluntary participation in aviation medicine is offered via MedCenter Air, which operates four helicopters and four fixed-wing aircraft stationed at three operational bases across the state. In the event of natural disasters and mass casualty events, Carolinas MED-1 is a one-of-a-kind mobile intensive care treatment facility and field hospital that can deploy with faculty and resident emergency physicians within hours to areas where local medical resources are obliterated or overburdened.
Your emergency medicine residency program should provide a strong background in the evaluation and treatment of toxicologic emergencies. At CMC, five board-certified emergency physician toxicologists, a toxicology fellow, and a PharmD toxicologist provide a dedicated one month rotation in addition to numerous didactic presentations on various aspects of toxicology. You will rotate through the Carolinas Poison Center, directed by Dr. Marsha Ford, which is one of 55 poison centers in the United States and is certified by the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
Your residency experience should teach you to combat nationwide challenges such as ED overcrowding through innovative approaches to clinical operations. Implementation of LEAN methodology at CMC has resulted in dramatic improvements in key metrics such as time to triage, time to first physician contact, and emergency department length of stay. An express admission protocol for ICU patients assures that the sickest patients move promptly to the unit after emergency interventions are complete. Residents have also been champions of new ED flow initiatives, such as obtaining a dedicated eye room for ophthalmologic complaints.
We often receive inquiries from international medical graduates as to whether we can accept IMGs. The answer is yes -- and we will sponsor their visa. We sponsor: J-1, F-1, H-1B, TN, EAC, Green Cards. All fees will need to be paid by the prospective employee, with the exception of the $1,000 fee required by the INS for processing an H-1B visa. The person offered the position must have a current work authorization before he/she can start.
Thank you again for your interest in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program here at Carolinas Medical Center. If you have any questions or concerns, please call our residency coordinators, Mary Fiorillo or Blanca Benavides, at 704-355-3658 or reach via email at [email protected] or [email protected].
Currently, if you would like to apply for our residency program, we only accept standard electronic applications through ERAS. Please refer to the AAMC website for the most up-to-date timeline for application opening and submission. Your school will also have more specific information on getting registered for the ERAS program.
Our deadline for applications is November 1. Addendums to applications will continue to be downloaded. However, complete applications received after the deadline are not guaranteed to be reviewed. We review all applications online, eliminating the need for folders with miscellaneous documents either emailed or mailed in. Three letters of recommendation are required—one of which should be from an Emergency Medicine physician.
Carolinas Medical Center is the flagship of Atrium Health, one of the largest public, nonprofit healthcare systems in the United States. We are an 874-bed hospital and regional Level 1 trauma center with an emergency department that sees more than 120,000 patients annually, including 30,000 in Levine Children's Hospital's emergency department which is housed within the main hospital. There is no need to travel to a remote campus in order to bolster your educational experience. All rotations, faculty offices, didactic conferences and simulation experiences are conveniently located on a single campus.
Educational conferences are provided Thursdays from 8 a.m. to noon via a stimulating mix of traditional lecture, small group interactive discussions, hands-on-skills stations, and adult and pediatric M&M conference. Lecture-based learning is supplemented by online multimedia offerings and monthly experience at the Carolinas Simulation Center.
We leverage technology to enhance resident education using audience response systems, virtual teleconferencing, social media and a weekly recap of didactic material. In addition, we use this website to provide full-text access to carefully selected high yield educational materials, organized by rotation. You'll spend your time reading, not figuring out what to read.
What should you look for in a residency program?
Residents should have the opportunity to work side by side with leaders in the field. Walking the halls at CMC you will enjoy the open door policy of acknowledged leaders in emergency ultrasound, sepsis care, trauma, disaster medicine, therapeutic hypothermia, airway management, emergency cardiology, and emergency stroke care. Your mentors are ACEP speakers, recipients of NIH grants, and recipients of institutional teaching awards. Drop by our offices and take in the knowledge and experience of contributors to peer-reviewed journals and textbooks such as Rosen's Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Barkin's Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. CMC EM faculty occupy key roles across the institution, including medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and medical director of the Center for Prehospital Medicine and the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (MEDIC). Interdepartmental initiatives such as Code Cool, Code Sepsis, and Code STEMI, instituted under the expert guidance of EM faculty, have improved patient outcomes and decreased mortality in these key areas.
Your residency should provide a rich pediatric experience. Our pediatric emergency department is staffed by faculty from the department of emergency medicine, five of whom are board certified in both pediatrics and emergency medicine. Among them is our fearless program director, Dr. Sean Fox, who writes Pediatric EM Morsels, which provides weekly educational pearls dedicated to pediatric emergency care.
You will want extensive experience in bedside ultrasound. Our emergency department has eight ultrasound machines that are in continual use, not including portable Butterfly IQ ultrasound devices. All have extensive doppler and digital capability. The annual volume of emergency ultrasounds performed has grown each year to an ultrasound procedure census in excess of 6,000 per year. Attending physicians are credentialed and a quality assurance program run by our ultrasound faculty audits every ultrasound that is performed and provides feedback. Ultrasound is used extensively for resuscitation (both medical and traumatic), pregnancy, abdominal evaluation, cardiovascular evaluation, soft-tissue, musculoskeletal, ocular, and for procedural guidance. Our ultrasound machines wirelessly transmit digital images and videos to our QA software and management system.
Your residency should provide a rich EMS experience. During their ED rotations, PGY2 and PGY3 residents routinely provide online medical control for the county EMS system (MEDIC). The Center for Prehospital Medicine welcomes those with a passion for teaching at the EMT-basic and EMT-paramedic level. In addition to a dedicated month with MEDIC, voluntary participation in aviation medicine is offered via MedCenter Air, which operates four helicopters and four fixed-wing aircraft stationed at three operational bases across the state. In the event of natural disasters and mass casualty events, Carolinas MED-1 is a one-of-a-kind mobile intensive care treatment facility and field hospital that can deploy with faculty and resident emergency physicians within hours to areas where local medical resources are obliterated or overburdened.
Your emergency medicine residency program should provide a strong background in the evaluation and treatment of toxicologic emergencies. At CMC, five board-certified emergency physician toxicologists, a toxicology fellow, and a PharmD toxicologist provide a dedicated one month rotation in addition to numerous didactic presentations on various aspects of toxicology. You will rotate through the Carolinas Poison Center, directed by Dr. Marsha Ford, which is one of 55 poison centers in the United States and is certified by the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
Your residency experience should teach you to combat nationwide challenges such as ED overcrowding through innovative approaches to clinical operations. Implementation of LEAN methodology at CMC has resulted in dramatic improvements in key metrics such as time to triage, time to first physician contact, and emergency department length of stay. An express admission protocol for ICU patients assures that the sickest patients move promptly to the unit after emergency interventions are complete. Residents have also been champions of new ED flow initiatives, such as obtaining a dedicated eye room for ophthalmologic complaints.
We often receive inquiries from international medical graduates as to whether we can accept IMGs. The answer is yes -- and we will sponsor their visa. We sponsor: J-1, F-1, H-1B, TN, EAC, Green Cards. All fees will need to be paid by the prospective employee, with the exception of the $1,000 fee required by the INS for processing an H-1B visa. The person offered the position must have a current work authorization before he/she can start.
Thank you again for your interest in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program here at Carolinas Medical Center. If you have any questions or concerns, please call our residency coordinators, Mary Fiorillo or Blanca Benavides, at 704-355-3658 or reach via email at [email protected] or [email protected].
