Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Wake Forest's Internal Medicine Residency is a large academic program anchored by a tertiary/quaternary referral center (Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist) with community-hospital exposure at High Point, VA clinics, and a longstanding (since 1986) separate Primary Care Track alongside the categorical program. Roughly 70% of graduates pursue subspecialty fellowships across 12 in-house divisions, reflecting a strong fellowship-feeder identity, while a distinct Hospital Medicine Pathway, Global Health Pathway, Medical Education Pathway, and POCUS Champion Pathway allow individualized career tracking. Research is structurally embedded rather than incidental: the Tinsley R. Harrison Translational Research Pathway and Clinical Scholars in Informatics Pathway provide protected time, assigned mentors, EPIC Physician Builder certification, and mandatory scholarly output, feeding a substantial annual output of publications and national presentations. The program values residents who will commit early to a defined pathway (research, hospitalist, primary care, informatics, education, or global health) and use its mentorship infrastructure and dual continuity-clinic model (underserved Downtown Health Plaza plus private-practice University Internal Medicine) to build a longitudinal identity within a large academic system.