Medicine
Join a close-knit medical student community with a reputation for producing primary care physicians. Become a doctor who truly cares, and make a meaningful impact in the East and across the state in communities where you are needed the most.
Medicine Program Overview
Do you want to pursue a career geared toward helping people be as healthy as possible? Are you interested in being a part of an ever-changing medical field?
Our goal at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is to provide students the knowledge and clinical experience needed to attain successful careers in medicine. We believe that the journey through medical school can and should be one of life's most enriching and rewarding experiences.
The Brody School of Medicine provides a complete and challenging medical education designed to prepare physicians for service in the 21st century. The faculty and administration emphasize close personal attention to the needs of individual students; a firm and balanced foundation in scientific knowledge and humanistic patient-care skills; and adherence to traditions of service, achievement, and high ethical standards.
The Brody School of Medicine provides accredited education programs for medical students, residents and fellows, doctoral students in the basic medical sciences, and practicing physicians. The hallmarks of these programs are close-faculty student interaction, experiential learning, and development of students’ ability to continue learning even after they leave the formal educational setting.
ECU Advantage
The medical school admitted its first class of four-year medical students in 1977. More than three decades later, the school is recognized as the centerpiece of a comprehensive academic medical center with doctoral (PhD) programs in the basic medical sciences, 23 residency and fellowship programs, extensive research activities, and service to patients in eastern North Carolina.
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University received a Top Ten Award in 2013 by the American Academy of Family Physicians for contributing to the pipeline of family physicians. With 20.9 percent of graduates choosing family medicine residencies, the Brody School of Medicine earned the top spot among the 12 schools that received 2013 Top Ten Awards. It was the third consecutive year that the Brody School of Medicine earned the Top Ten distinction.
What You Will Study
The Brody School of Medicine provides a carefully developed environment conducive to the study of medicine, one that emphasizes individual and continuing learning to prepare students for a lifetime of personal service. Many elements make up the Brody approach, but the most important are small class sizes, an outstanding and dedicated faculty, and exceptional facilities. Medical students at Brody find that they have many opportunities for personal interaction and individual instruction, whether in the classroom, the office of a faculty member or at the bedside of a patient. Because faculty members are able and willing to spend more time with students, they are better prepared to contribute to the growth and development of each student, not only as a physician but also as a person with unique needs, interests and goals.
More than 400 physicians and research scientists make up our faculty and provide this professional and personal guidance to students as they proceed through their training. Complementing and assisting the faculty are nearly 200 practicing physicians in Greenville and throughout the state who contribute their expertise to the educational experience in classrooms, affiliated hospitals and community practice settings. The faculty of Brody is the greatest strength of the educational program. By precept and example, the faculty upholds the standards of excellence that enable graduates to fulfill their professional duties throughout a lifetime of service, whether in primary care, specialty practice, or teaching and research. The Brody faculty has a reputation for being innovative. The school was among the first in the country to use simulated patients in the teaching program, a common practice today. Brody faculty members have also helped pioneer standardized clinical practice examinations.
Supporting the faculty in its mission are the excellent facilities of the medical school and ECU Health Medical Center, the primary affiliated teaching hospital of the school. These modern educational and clinical facilities were carefully designed to meet the needs of students, from the Laupus Library with its private study areas and computing resources to master classrooms equipped with multimedia, computer and teleconferencing technology. These resources contribute to an educational atmosphere that encourages mature study, intellectual curiosity, and the formal and informal exchange of ideas and knowledge.
But not all student learning takes place at the medical center. Clinical rotations throughout the region and state allow students to experience the practice of medicine in carefully selected hospitals, physician offices and rural health clinics. In many of these settings, medical students learn within an interdisciplinary framework that includes students from other health care disciplines. Patient care activities conducted by faculty physicians in schools, health departments, and outlying hospitals also enhance the study of medicine while helping to meet health care needs in the region. Many ECU medical students choose to pursue part of their training in foreign countries, adding to their appreciation of different cultures. This variety of clinical settings provides a solid foundation for residency training in primary care or other specialty areas.
The fundamental responsibility of the school is the education of competent and compassionate physicians who will provide quality care to their patients and leadership in their communities. The Brody School of Medicine also recognizes the vital commitment physicians must make to professional growth throughout their careers as the mysteries of medicine are unraveled and science provides new ways of healing and caring. In many ways, a medical education is just a start. The Brody School of Medicine is dedicated to making it an excellent beginning.
If you have questions about the doctor of medicine program, please contact the Brody School of Medicine Office of Admissions.
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