The department of emergency medicine (EM) is an independent academic department within the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSOM) located in Winston-Salem, NC. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC), the regions only tertiary care center and the teaching hospital for the WFUSOM, is the flagship hospital for the department. The WFUBMC emergency department is a level one adult and pediatric trauma center, accreditated chest pain and stroke center, and has received national awards for "ED throughput and efficiency". The emergency medicine clinical faculty also staff emergency departments across the piedmont triad area of North Carolina including Greensboro (Moses Cone Memorial Hosptial, Wesley Long Community Hospital), High Point,  North Wilkesboro, and Reidsville . Over a quarter of a million people are evaluated and treated annually at our emergency departments.

The emergency medicine residency program at Wake Forest University is the oldest EM training program in the southeastern United States. The training program consistently ranks among the best in the nation and attracts competitive applicants from all across the country. The residents work primarily at WFUBMC, Forsyth Medical Center (county's obstetrical hospital), and Moses Cone Memorial Hospital.

The department of emergency medicine is committed to providing outstanding clinical care to our patients, excellent education to our trainees, and staying on the cutting edge of research to advance our specialty