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Since 1968, the Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) Internal Medicine Residency program at Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center has provided residents with exceptional, comprehensive clinical training. With our mix of autonomy, diverse patient pathophysiology, one-on-one faculty/resident teaching and collegial atmosphere, we provide an ideal environment for residents to thrive. We have an excellent ABIM Board Pass rate and an outstanding track record for the fellowship match.  

In the program, residents will:

  • Gain a solid foundation of knowledge and clinical skill grounded in general internal medicine, coupled with access to all subspecialty fields.
  • Learn how to provide compassionate care to underserved populations.
  • Feel empowered to lead the future of healthcare through their active participation in quality improvement, patient safety and value-based care initiatives.

Where You Will Train

Meet the Faculty


Moore

“It is our pleasure to welcome you to the CMC Department of Internal Medicine Residency program! Our residency program has a long history of training high quality internists, hospitalists, academicians, and future subspecialists. Our residency program leadership is committed fully to creating an exceptional training environment for our residents.”

Dr. Kristi Moore, MD
Residency Program Director, Department of Internal Medicine

With a nationally and internationally renowned team of internal medicine physicians who serve as faculty, our residents have access to a breadth of experience and knowledge in the Internal Medicine program. View their bios here.


Program Curriculum


Our residency program is committed to resident education, wellness, scholarship, and excellence in clinical training within a supportive, caring community. Our program serves Charlotte and Mecklenburg County as well as the surrounding referring counties. Our referral base consists of approximately 1.5 to 2 million people and includes western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. Residents will have access to an exceptionally diverse and complex clinical case mix. Whether your future includes a subspecialty fellowship, general internal medicine practice, academic medicine, or a career as a hospitalist, our program provides you with the individual attention and support you will need to succeed.

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Some key features of our program include:

  • Comprehensive daily educational curriculum
  • Broad patient base with extremely diverse patient pathology
  • A strong commitment to reaching the medically underserved
  • Warm, friendly, supportive, “family-like” environment
  • Strong emphasis on one-on-one education from faculty
  • Ideal balance of service and education allowing ample time to study
  • Outstanding fellowship match rate for those residents pursuing sub-specialty training
  • Research opportunities incorporating CMC-Atrium and Wake Forest Baptist under a single IRB
  • Longitudinal global health certificate program with established global health elective opportunities in Kenya and/or Cameroon
  • Established point-of-care ultrasound curriculum with easy access to portable ultrasound devices
  • ACGME fellowship opportunities in Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Hematology-Oncology, Hospice and Palliative Care, Sports Medicine, and Transplant Hepatology. There is also a new Obesity Medicine fellowship opportunity, endorsed by the OMFC. 
  • Diverse curricular options, with flexibility to tailor a residency to your specific needs
  • A faculty made up of true clinician educators who are devoted to teaching and genuinely invested in the training of our residents
  • Our ABIM first-time pass rate is 99% over the past 15+ years, placing us in the top 1% of Internal Medicine residency training programs nationwide
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Our residents receive longitudinal training in Quality Improvement (QI) throughout their residency. As a part of our QI curriculum, residents learn to evaluate their own practice and examine patient care in a systems-based manner. Our residents are provided “report cards” on their care of patients in their practice panel with diabetes, asthma, heart failure, and coronary artery disease. These reports are reviewed semi-annually with ambulatory faculty mentors. Following this review, residents develop an action plan for patients at highest risk for poor health outcomes in their practice panel.

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In addition to the many educational and career benefits of the Internal Medicine program, residents will receive financial benefits as well.

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Application Criteria


For the 2024-2025 recruitment season, all our residency interview days will be conducted VIRTUALLY. We will begin reviewing applications through the Electronic Residency Application Services (ERAS) on September 25, 2024. We accept applications only from participants in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) which is available through your Dean's Office. Our 2024-2025 interview season will run from mid-October through early January. There will be limited opportunities for optional in-person and/or virtual second looks in late-January and early-February AFTER our program rank list is submitted.

We are following the AAIM and AAMC guidance on the signaling of home/away programs in the supplemental application. If you are strongly interested in our program, please send a signal, including those who consider us your home program and/or those who have completed a rotation here. All applications that send signals will be prioritized for the first review.

Due to an extraordinarily high application volume, we are very unlikely to extend interview offers to applicants who do not signal our program. Please note that sending a signal does not guarantee an interview offer.

We rely on the integrity of the application process to ensure that candidates are a good fit for our program. We request that all applicants refrain from using AI software to create any part of your application materials.

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