Being a resident in training at West Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston Area Medical Center means becoming part of a well-respected team at an academic medical center which encourages innovation.
Because we are a 919-bed tertiary care health care system with a major affiliation with West Virginia University, we offer a balanced experience in both private practice and academia.
Our dedicated physicians have a full-time commitment to training physicians to practice in a broad range of environments, from the highly technical to the most rural. As a resident, you'll learn from them during office and clinical rotations. You’ll also teach. The experienced faculty, diverse setting and the blend of clinical and academic involvement will prepare you for a challenging and successful future.
We offer residencies in behavioral medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine/pediatrics, internal medicine/psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, obstetrics and gynecology subinternship, surgery, general dentistry, pharmacy and osteopathic internship.
The medical residencies listed here participate in the National Resident Matching Program for first year positions.
For information and applications about our
graduate medical education programs write to
Department of Graduate Medical Education
Charleston Area Medical Center
WVU Health Sciences Center-Charleston Division
3110 MacCorkle Ave. S.E.
Charleston, WV 25304
or call collect (304) 388-9946 or 388-9947
Online requests for information and applications will be available soon.
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Our fully accredited psychiatry residency program prepares residents for the challenges of psychiatry in private or academic practice. The program is a joint effort of the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston Area Medical Center.
Residents collaborate with our 17 full-time faculty and 30 clinical faculty members who are committed to training psychiatric physicians to practice in a broad range of environments-from the highly technical to the most rural.
We offer a four-year training program in general psychiatry, a five-year combined internal medicine/psychiatry program and a two-year child psychiatry fellowship. We have five first-year positions, three in the four-year general residency and two in the combined medicine/psychiatry residency. Call duty averages every seventh night and is not more frequent than every fourth night on any rotation.
Our accredited child psychiatry fellowship offers two positions each year for residents in early entry or in the more traditional fourth and fifth years. Experience includes inpatient child and adolescent rotations, outpatient and consultation/liaison in hospitals, schools and community sites.
FREIDA Number
General psychiatry 4005521264
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Family medicine residents in the jointly sponsored Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston Area Medical Center, benefit from the resources of the state's largest teaching medical center. Family medicine has a young, dynamic teaching staff and five practice centers, including three rural health sites and an office practice. The faculty are committed to training family physicians to competently practice in a broad range of environments, from the highly technical to the most rural.
First year training and selected rotations in
the second and third years occur at Charleston Area Medical Center, a 919-bed regional
tertiary hospital. CAMC's three divisions include Women and
Children's Hospital, the state's largest pediatrics/obstetrics facility; CAMC General Division, which is connected
to the Family Medicine Center; and CAMC
Memorial Division, which houses the heart and cancer centers. The program also
operates in cooperation with Thomas Memorial Hospital, a 280-bed hospital, located next to
our satellite office in South Charleston.
The Family Medicine Center of Charleston is the hub of our family medicine residency. The center includes a lab, staffed by a full-time lab technologist, three procedures suites, 15 examining rooms and conference facilities. The program emphasizes procedure training and the center contains a full spectrum of video-supported equipment.
Residents are encouraged to develop their own interests and train in different settings, which include opportunities to train in a small private practice near a community hospital and rural practice experiences.
FREIDA Number
Family medicine 1205511337
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The internal medicine residency program combines the resources of the
university and the community to train internal medicine physicians. The program is a joint
effort between the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University/
Charleston Division and Charleston Area
Medical Center.
Residents collaborate with full-time faculty dedicated to education and also work alongside committed clinical faculty in a number of specialty fields. The internal medicine program blends ambulatory care with specialty rotations through all three CAMC divisions. Services at CAMC General Division include a Neurosciences Center, nephrology, renal transplantation, medical rehabilitation, a level I Trauma Center, orthopedics, sports medicine and adult behavioral medicine. CAMC Memorial Division houses the Heart Institute and hematology/oncology centers as well as outpatient surgery and ambulatory care. CAMC Women and Children's Hospital is the state's largest pediatric/obstetric facility with level III neonatal ICU, pediatric ICU and obstetrical ICU units.
In-hospital call duty averages every sixth night. Required conferences include daily morning report and internal medicine teaching conferences.
Residents are encouraged to train in different settings. Ambulatory care and advanced outpatient procedures are vital components of this program. Subspecialty clinic rotations are also available. The program also has a rural practice experiences at Cabin Creek, West Virginia - within 25 minutes of Charleston. Remote site experiences are available.
Residents may choose a preliminary residency or a three-year internal medicine residency. We also offer a four-year program for combined board eligibility in medicine and pediatrics, or a five-year program for medicine and psychiatry. We have eight first year categorical positions and between two and four preliminary positions.
FREIDA Number
Internal medicine 1405511438
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The accredited program is jointly directed by the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston Area Medical Center. The 919-bed center is comprised of three hospitals - CAMC Women and Children's Hospital, General Division and Memorial Division.
Our pediatrics residency program couples high-tech capabilities with community-based service. CAMC draws patients from both urban and rural areas which offers our team a diversity hard to find elsewhere. CAMC is the state's high tech tertiary medical center, and those capabilities will be at your disposal as a resident.
Most of your residency will be spent at CAMC Women and Children's Hospital, the largest pediatric/obstetric facility in the state. Pediatric residents train in the 36-bed pediatric unit, the 14-bed adolescent unit and in the PICU (which has six intensive care beds and four transitional beds). The neonatal intensive care unit has 26-beds, and the neonatologists are in-house round the clock. Because we share the house with obstetrics, you will have the opportunity to follow normal and high risk newborns from throughout the region. And, when patients require surgery, residents co-manage cases with our two full-time pediatric surgeons.
The program is also structured to give residents a multifacted experience in outpatient care. Pediatric residents at CAMC train in our busy emergency department and pediatric and adolescent clinics where we see more than 36,000 patients each year. Specialty rotations include child psychiatry and rural practice experiences at Cabin Creek Clinic as we as experiences in school-based clinics in Kanawha County.
Call duty averages every fourth night on the inpatient service, and every fourth night on critical care services. Some elective months are call-free.
FREIDA Number
Pediatrics 3205521243
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Medicine and Pediatrics Residency
The goal of this program is to train physicians to provide health care to people of all ages. Residents completing this program are prepared to handle direct patient care, enter further subspecialty training or begin a career in the community health system. Those who complete the program are eligible to take board examinations in both specialties.
The four-year curriculum is split equally between the two specialties. Residents work in inpatient and outpatient settings alongside 17 full-time pediatric faculty and 15 full-time medicine faculty. Call duty varies from every third night in pediatrics and neonatal intensive care to every sixth night on the internal medicine service.
Patients include those discharged from inpatient service as well as new and current clinic clients, providing opportunities to form ongoing relationships with patients as their primary health care provider.
FREIDA Number
Medicine/pediatrics 80055440
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Medicine and Psychiatry Residency
This residency is coordinated by a dually certified board internist/psychiatrist. Residents receive comprehensive training in internal medicine and psychiatry leading to a board certification in both fields.
Our five-year program explores the many trends in medicine that make combining these two disciplines appropriate. The psychiatry curriculum includes experiences in adult inpatient psychiatry, consultation/liaison psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry including a medicine/psychiatric clinic, community psychiatry, substance abuse and child psychiatry. Internal medicine training includes inpatient rotations, emergency, ambulatory clinics and subspecialty rotations.
FREIDA Number
Medicine/psychiatry 8155144014
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Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency
The fully accredited obstetrics and gynecology program is jointly directed by Charleston Area Medical Center and the obstetrics and gynecology department of the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University/Charleston Division. The four-year residency combines high-tech capabilities with community-based services to treat patients with very different needs. Two subinternships are also available for medical students in their fourth year.
Obstetrics and gynecology residents train at Women and Children’s Hospital, West Virginia’s only free-standing hospital specializing in the care of women and children. It is also the state's largest pediatric/obstetric facility. Residents train in the 40-bed gynecology unit, the 45-bed labor, delivery and postpartum unit and in the obstetrics ICU.
Residents deliver approximately one-third of ob deliveries and, under the supervision of attending physicians, manage all obstetric and gynecology patients admitted to Women and Children's. Obstetric and gynecology residents also train in the emergency department and obstetrics and gynecology clinics where we see more than 36,000 patients a year. Specialty rotations include ultrasound and genetics, neonatal intensive care, emergency medicine, geriatrics, internal medicine and research.
Call duty averages every fourth night on the gynecology, critical care and obstetric services.
FREIDA Number
Obstetrics/gynecology 2205511303
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subinternships
Subinternships in clinical obstetrics and gynecology, and high risk enroll up to two students per month.
The clinical obstetrics and gynecology subinternship is available for four to eight weeks throughout the year. Subinterns gain experience in ambulatory care, emergency care, management of both normal and high-risk obstetrics, family planning, infertility management, gynecology oncology, gynecological pathology and introduction to gynecological surgical techniques.
The high-risk obstetrics subinternship is available throughout the year in four week intervals and is supervised by our full-time perinatology faculty. Subinterns gain understanding of high-risk obstetrics, including prenatal diagnosis, obstetrical ultrasound, fetal monitoring and pathophysiology of common high-risk problems.
Subinterns are supervised by full-time faculty, clinical faculty and residents.
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The accredited surgical residency is jointly directed by the Robert C. Byrd
Health Sciences Center of West
Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston
Area Medical Center. The surgical program blends surgical training with ambulatory
care follow-up clinics.
The five-year non-pyramidal program is designed to produce a balanced general surgeon equally capable of practicing in academic or community hospital settings. Training includes significant practice in trauma and critical care, gastroenterology (including nutrition and endoscopy), surgical oncology and angiocardiothoracic surgery.
The average experience for chief residents finishing the program is over 800 major cases as primary surgeon or teaching assistant. Average total case experience per resident is approximately 1,200 cases in five years-more than fulfilling the requirements of the American Board of Surgery in number, mixture and complexity. Call duty averages every third to fifth night, depending on the post-graduate level.
FREIDA Number
Surgery 4405511351
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The Dentistry Residency is a joint program of West Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston Area Medical Center. Our fully-accredited program trains residents for a rewarding career in hospital dentistry or private practice. Our faculty and staff are dedicated to training dentists in all aspects of dental health care.
We combine high-tech capabilities with community-based service in an environment which encourages residents to develop their own interests. Residents train at the dental center, located in CAMC’s busy Memorial Division. The center treats an average of 50 patients per day from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. Residents are involved in all stages of patient care, from general practice to oral surgery, and are actively involved in the treatment of each of our patients.
Our 12-month program includes rotations in medicine, anesthesiology and family practice. We offer three residency positions per year.
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The pharmacy residency is jointly sponsored by the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University/Charleston Division and Charleston Area Medical Center. Our program focuses on preparing residents to provide pharmacy care in today's health care environment.
Our one-year program offers three residencies per year in pharmacy practice, and two specialty residencies in pharmacotherapy and critical care. Residents a gain valuable experience in a variety of practice areas including administration, ambulatory care, infectious disease, rehabilitation, critical care, internal medicine, drug information and family medicine. Residents are encouraged to develop individualized courses of study which meet their professional goals.
The majority of residents practice in the busy inpatient pharmacy at General Division, CAMC. CAMC is the state's largest tertiary care hospital. You'll find a strong emphasis on developing pharmacy skills and drug information. Other responsibilities include conducting patient medical histories, drug monitoring, patient counseling and education, medical emergency management, drug therapy consultation, clinical research, nursing personnel consultation, adverse drug experience reporting, drug use evaluation and pharmacy administration and management.
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Charleston Area Medical Center is sponsored by the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. You'll find a strong emphasis on broad-based primary care, serving a diverse population of patients from both urban and rural communities. Our faculty is dedicated to training osteopathic physicians capable of practicing in a full range of environments. Interns are encouraged to develop their own interests and explore the resources of CAMC, the state's largest teaching hospital.
We offer eight internships each year. The twelve-month rotating program includes three months in medical services, three months in surgery, two months in pediatrics and one month each in family practice, emergency services, obstetrics and gynecology and an elective. Responsibilities and duties of interns are equal to those of first year residents. Many of our interns go on to complete residencies at CAMC in a variety of fields including pediatrics, psychiatry, family medicine and surgery.
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For information and applications about our
residency programs write to:
Department of Graduate Medical Education
Charleston Area Medical Center
WVU Health Sciences Center/Charleston Division
3110 MacCorkle Ave. S.E.
Charleston, WV 25304 or call collect (304) 388-9946 or 388-9947