FAMILY MEDICINE CENTER FACT SHEET Brody
School of Medicine at East Carolina University
ECU Family Medicine Ranks Ninth in Nation
According to the 2006 U S News and World Report®
Americas Best Graduate Schools Report released
in this year, Family Medicine at the Brody School
of Medicine was ranked ninth out of 126 medical
schools in the nation. Along with this prestigious
ranking, the report also ranked Brody sixth among
top schools for primary care and seventh for rural
medicine.
• Established from a need
to provide quality healthcare to the citizens of
eastern North Carolina, the Brody School of Medicine
(BSOM) at East Carolina University consistently
ranks nationally in family medicine, primary care
and rural medicine. (U. S. News & World Reports)
• In only three decades, BSOM also serves
as a leader in specialty training and research
in cardiovascular and robotic surgery, diabetes,
cancer and pediatrics.
• Serving a
29-county region in eastern North Carolina, the
current family medicine facility is outdated, and
can no longer meet the clinical care and training
needs of the BSOM.
• The new proposed
Family Medicine Center will be a state-of-the-art
facility with more than triple the space currently
available.
• Patient access to care
will increase by 30% and will allow for high quality
healthcare to the region’s population by
offering community assessment and educational programs
on an outreach basis.
• The Family
Medicine Center will provide better, more efficient
facilities to meet the training needs of medical
students and family medicine residents. It will
address the increase in class size at the medical
school which is already being realized.
•
The Family Medicine Center will serve as a regional
training site for other healthcare professionals
such as nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists,
therapists and technicians that often return to
their communities to practice.
• The
Monk Geriatric Center will raise the quality o
