| Family Medicine Residency Teaching Sites Our main teaching sites are the Eastern Carolina Family Medicine Center and Pitt County Memorial Hospital, which serve a diverse patient population from Greenville and surrounding communities. Residents also have an opportunity to train at community sites. Eastern Carolina Family Medicine Center
 Much of our training takes place in the Eastern Carolina Family Medicine Center, which is conveniently attached to Pitt County Memorial Hospital, minimizing any need for outside travel. The center houses 38 exam rooms for patient care and procedural skills. Clinical services available in the facility include pharmacotherapy, nutrition counseling, physical therapy, dentistry, OB ultrasound, exercise stress testing, behavioral and family therapy. We also have a pharmacy on site. Each resident is assigned to one of four modules, which serves as that resident's home base for all three years. Each module is equipped with nine exam rooms, a mini-lab, two faculty offices, and a resident office. While in clinic, each resident has 2-3 exam rooms and one nurse. |
 All exam rooms and the resident office are furnished with computers for easy access to our inpatient and outpatient electronic medical records. The family medicine center and all other specialty clinics within ECU Physicians use an electronic medical record system called Logician. This system allows instant access to patient records from work or home via the web, and provides an indispensable means of communication between faculty, residents, physician extenders, and nurses. Our family medicine center cares for a primarily underserved, racially diverse population, as well as a mixture of hospital and university employees and their families. Our patients serve as our greatest resource by providing a wide variety of disease processes and pathology from which to learn. | Pitt County Memorial Hospital
 A 750-bed tertiary care center with more than 33,000 inpatient admissions and 266,000 outpatient visits per year, Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) serves as the principle teaching hospital for our residency program. Other residencies in the hospital include internal medicine, medicine-pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, psychiatry, and other combined programs. PCMH has been named a top teaching hospital by Solucient, and US News and World Report and Solucient named PCMH a top hospital for cardiovascular services. Working Mother magazine named PCMH one its "100 Best Companies" for working mothers. Serving 1.2 million people in 29 counties in eastern North Carolina, PCMH is the predominant referral center in the region. With its cutting-edge cardiothoracic surgical capabilities, level-one trauma center, and the largest telemedicine program in North Carolina, PCMH provides state of the art technology for optimal patient care and fundamental inpatient education. Community Rotations Our program includes rotations in the nearby towns of Smithfield, Goldsboro, and Kinston. Some residents opt to rotate through other small communities, such as the picturesque coastal town of Hatteras. Community rotations provide residents an opportunity to work one-on-one with practicing physicians in rural communities in the areas of OB and orthopedics.
For residents with a particular interest in rural health care, other optional tours, didactic presentations, and opportunities for community service are available.
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