AI 403 WakeMed (Medicine)

Course Director:   John Perry, MD

Course Director E-mail:   jperry@med.unc.edu

 

Chief Resident:   Leslie Proctor, MD

 Chief Resident Phone Number:   919-350-8492

Chief Resident Pager Number: 919-393-5582

Chief Resident E-Mail: lkprocto@unch.unc.edu

 

Administrative Coordinator: Shantell Jordan

Administrative Coordinator Phone Number: 919-350-8595

Administrative Coordinator E-mail: sjordan@med.unc.edu

 

From Chapel Hill: From Durham/Chapel Hill: Take I-40 East to the Wade Avenue exit (this will be on the right).  Exit onto the INNER beltline of I-440 (just follow signs to Wilson). Exit onto New Bern Ave, exit 13A.  Turn right at the top of the ramp.   You will see the hospital complex on the left. Take a left at the visitor’s entrance (past the Heart Center). This will go directly to the P5 parking deck, where you will park on the first day. Please bring your ticket into the hospital with you to have your parking validated.

 

On your first day you will meet the chief resident or administrative coordinator in the main lobby of the rehabilitation hospital (near the indoor miniature golf course) at 7:45 am. Please make sure you have contacted either the chief resident or administrative coordinator prior to that day to confirm. You will go directly to morning report, following which you will have a brief orientation with the chief resident. You will then obtain your ID badge and join your team on rounds.

WakeMed is a private, not for profit community hospital servicing Wake County, North Carolina. WakeMed has one of the busiest EDs in the Southeast US. The patient population is very diverse. The attendings are members of the hospitalist group and are UNC faculty members. They very much enjoy teaching and being part of the teaching service.  The upper level residents are UNC Internal Medicine or Med/Peds residents, and the interns come from a variety of disciplines including Internal Medicine, Med/Peds, Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

There are four teams at WakeMed: A,B,C,D. Each team is composed of the Attending, 1 upper level resident, an intern and usually a medical student or acting intern. The call schedule is q4 with a night float system. The teams admit on their call days and short call days. On a call day, each team will take 1-2 floats from the night before + 4 admissions + 2 consults prior to 6 pm. Sign-out to the night float is at 8 pm and the call team should leave by 9 pm. On short call days (the day after post-call day), the team will take typically 1 floated patient +2 admissions by 4 pm. Each team will take an additional floated patient on their post-call day.