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facility is outdated, and can no longer meet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
