Carolinas Medical Center is the flagship facility of Carolinas HealthCare System . As part of the third largest public hospital system in the country, CMC serves patients from western North Carolina , South Carolina and throughout the Southeast.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Carolinas Rehabilitation is a 118 bed Acute Rehabilitation Hospital connected to CMC via a 400 foot underground tunnel. This underground tunnel provides a direct and dry route between Carolinas Medical Center and Carolinas Rehabilitation, laying the proverbial "groundwork" for the strong connections and collaborations that exist today. Both facilities (Carolinas Medical Center and Carolinas Rehabilitation,) are part of Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the nation's 3rd largest public healthcare system. CHS manages manages 4,300 licensed beds in North and South Carolina and has approximately 25,300 employees.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of PM&R at Carolinas Medical Center/Carolinas Rehabilitation is to train residents in all aspects of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Our goals are to produce a resident with broad based skills with the ability to directly enter a general private or academic practice. In addition, skills will be provided that will help to set the foundation for expertise in areas of Neurotrauma (Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury), Stroke management, Prosthetics and Orthotics, and Musculoskeletal Medicine.

With an ideal faculty to resident ratio our goal is to provide concentrated teaching at the bedside, in the clinic, and during a very structured didactic curriculum. Our efforts through the years have focused on hiring faculty with a strong interest in teaching, and recruiting faculty within the private practice community to assist in our teaching program. This has helped to achieve our goal of providing training and experience in PM&R that encompasses all potential practice settings and allows exposure for all or our residents to the many facets of PM&R practice.

Curriculum

We provide a broad-based curriculum that is competency based and features numerous teaching modalities including bedside teaching, one-on-one structured didactics, an extensive didactic lecture series, faculty and resident combined conferences, Medical Education Conference (Grand Rounds), specialty workshops, regularly scheduled Visiting Professors, and a prosthetic and orthotic conference. Lunch is provided for all noon conferences.