Sports Medicine Fellowship

Ward Sports Medicine building is located in the heart of the athletic complex on the campus of East Carolina University and houses the main athletic training room in addition to the Human Performance and Biomechanics Laboratories. The training room is the principle site for the care of ECU athletes. The laboratories house state of the art metabolic and biomechanics equipment and a climate chamber.

A new facility located adjacent to Minges Coliseum on the ECU campus is the site for the transdisciplinary ECU Physical Activity & Nutrition Clinic. This clinic is operated as a collaborative effort by sports medicine physicians, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, biomechanists, and health fitness trainers. The center is also utilized for a cardiovascular fitness assessment program and individual physiologic testing (e.g. VO2 max, body composition, resting metabolic rate, pulmonary testing, and lactate threshold).

The primary site of ambulatory training for the family medicine residency program is the Eastern Carolina Family Medicine Center, located on the medical school campus and adjacent to Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Resources include four patient care modules, physical therapy, nutrition services, psychology, pharmacotherapy, a dental clinic, and outpatient pharmacy. In addition, a treadmill suite and minor procedures suite are located within the clinic. This is the site for primary care continuity clinics for the fellow.

Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine and the ECU Sports Medicine Fellowship program, is the only hospital in the county and serves as the tertiary care medical center for a 29-county region. The hospital is a 731-bed facility with a level I Trauma Center, Cancer Center, Heart Center, Children's Hospital, and Rehabilitation Hospital. Annual patient volume is 36,000 inpatients, 3,000 births, and 87,000 ED visits.