Carolinas Medical Center

About the program

Internal medicine residency at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, running since 1968, with 16 categorical PGY-1 positions a year and inpatient training at the 874-bed main hospital. Typically 30-50% of PGY-3 residents pursue fellowship and the program reports a 99% first-time ABIM pass rate.

Summarized from the program’s official website. Confirm details with the program.

Program highlights

• Inpatient training is at the 874-bed Carolinas Medical Center and ambulatory training at CMC Myers Park, two blocks away; team caps are 8 patients per intern early in the year and 9 later.
• Lunch didactics, Grand Rounds twice a month, monthly journal club, PGY-3 board review, resident-as-teacher symposium, POCUS and an intern patient safety OSCE.
• Typically 30-50% of PGY-3 residents pursue fellowship; the 2025 graduate career choices were about 46% fellowship, 36% hospitalist and 18% ambulatory.
• In-house fellowships include GI, hematology-oncology, geriatrics, sports medicine, hospice and palliative care, and transplant hepatology.
• Benefits include a $2,200 CME fund, 20 weekdays of vacation, free parking, 3 lab coats, meal points and wellness days during elective rotations.
• Interviews are virtual, with signaling encouraged; applicants are required (with rare exception) to pass standardized exams on the first attempt; only J1 visas are sponsored.

Program leadership and contact

Program director

Kristi Moore, MD

Program coordinator

Khyandra Murrain

Email

int.med@atriumhealth.org

Phone

704-355-0221

Program and application links

Review the official program page for training sites, curriculum, eligibility, required documents, deadlines, interview policy, visa sponsorship, and current openings.