The patients presenting to the ED provide many challenges. In 2004, Greenville was named Sports Town USA for the state of North Carolina by Sports Illustrated and the National Parks & Recreation Association. In March 2008, Greenville was ranked in the top ten of the nation’s “Best Places for Business and Careers” by Forbes Magazine. In January 2008, Greenville was named one of the nation’s “100 Best Communities for Young People” by the America’s Promise Alliance. The Greenville Metro Area is home to over 183,000 people and VMC is one of the largest hospitals in North Carolina. While serving a rural population, Greenville, N.C., is the thriving educational, health, and entertainment hub of the Tidewater and Coastal Plain. In accordance with the mission of the Medical School, the residents, faculty, and staff are dedicated to providing health care for the medically underserved areas of Eastern North Carolina. The emergency medicine residency, an accredited three-year program has a total of thirty-six resident physicians and the combined emergency medicine/internal medicine residency, an accredited five-year program, has a total of 10 resident physicians. To meet this demand a new state of the art department, with 58,000 square feet and 58 beds, was opened in 2005 and separate 16-bed Pediatric Emergency Department opened in July 2012. The Emergency Department at ECU Health Medical Center has greater than 120,000 patient visits annually and is growing rapidly. It is the primary referral center for 29 counties in eastern North Carolina. It is the only Level I trauma center east of I-95 in North Carolina. ECU Health Medical Center is a tertiary care facility with over 800 beds.
The residency was established in 1982 and includes 12 categorical EM positions as well as 2 combined Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine positions per year. ECU Health Medical Center ( Formerly Pitt County Memorial Hospital) is the teaching facility for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and serves as the primary training site for a well-established Residency in Emergency Medicine.
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