Emergency Medicine
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
The first stage of construction for the new pediatric Emergency Department at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center begins this month and will result in temporary traffic patterns for all Emergency Department visits.
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Two years ago when the Emergency Department at WFUBMC had 25 open nursing positions and no applicants, officials knew something had to be done....and the ED Academy was born.
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A new assessment tool, reported recently by the Journal of Hospital Medicine, may help hospitals avoid under- or over-treating patients who are admitted through hospital emergency departments (EDs).
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The announcement of individuals who have been promoted from assistant professor to associate professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
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One of the country’s foremost experts on the effect of Taser® use has published a new study that evaluated the immediate cardiac and cardiovascular effects on a group of volunteer police officers, finding that Taser exposure overall was safe and well tolerated.
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