Rural Track Program – Ahoskie, Beulaville, and Roanoke Rapids, NC
Residents in the Rural Family Medicine Residency at Vidant Medical Center will spend the majority of their first year of training at Vidant Medical Center (for most specialty inpatient training blocks) and the East Carolina University Family Medicine Center (for outpatient procedures, geriatrics, and sports medicine training) in Greenville. The second and third year residents will locate in either one of three sites in Ahoskie, Beulaville, and Roanoke Rapids.
Unique Information
Rural residents that MATCH to the Ahoskie site (NRMP Program Code 3057120C1) will spend the majority of their final two years of training at the Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center and Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, both located in the rural community of Ahoskie, NC. Ahoskie is a community of about 4,500 people. Ahoskie is approximately a one-hour drive north of Greenville. Ahoskie is also approximately a one-hour drive from the Tidewater Metropolitan region of Virginia (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Suffolk). Roanoke-Chowan Community Health Center is a large FQHC system with multiple clinical sites that serve rural northeastern North Carolina. Residents in the program will have their continuity clinic based at the RCCHC main clinic and administrative headquarters located in Ahoskie, NC. Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital is a 114-bed community hospital serving the greater Hertford County area and is affiliated with multiple Vidant Medical Group and ECU Physicians group subspecialty offices serving the people of this region.
Rural residents that MATCH to the Duplin site (NRMP Program Code 3057120C2) will spend the majority of their final two years of training at Goshen Medical Center located in Beulaville, NC and Vidant Duplin Hospital located in Kenansville, NC. Beulaville is a rural community of about 1,300 people, and Kenansville is a rural community of about 900 people. Both of these rural communities are approximately a one-hour drive south of Greenville. Beulaville/Kenansville are also approximately a forty-five minute drive from the Wilmington/Carolina Beach metropolitan area. Goshen Medical Center is a large FQHC system with multiple clinical sites that serve rural southeastern North Carolina. Residents in the program will have their continuity clinic based at the Goshen Medical Center- Beulaville location. Vidant Duplin Hospital is an 81-bed community hospital serving the greater Duplin County area and is affiliated with multiple Vidant Medical Group and ECU Physicians group subspecialty offices serving the people of this region.