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At Cape Fear Valley Health, we are dedicated to cultivating an academic community hospital learning environment that nurtures the development of curious, compassionate, and ethical physicians. Our focus is on high-quality, personalized patient care. Our program mentors residents toward achieving clinical and academic excellence, providing comprehensive training in all areas of internal medicine, hospital-based care, and ambulatory primary care. We aim to graduate competent, compassionate, and professional physicians ready to serve and uplift our community.

Our faculty, staff, and residents share the same values of teamwork, leadership, professionalism, integrity, diversity, and the ethical treatment of all humanity. Cape Fear Valley is an active trauma, stroke, and heart center enjoying top-performing status in several of its disease-specific certifications. With a unique patient mix that combines rural, urban, suburban, civilian, and military populations, we provide quality care to over 140,000 patients per year. In this capacity, we see a patient population that exhibits the breadth and depth of disease usually encountered only at large inner-city academic institutions.

On average, the Internists at Cape Fear Valley, including 50 Hospitalists, carry an average daily census of over 300 patients. Cape Fear Valley's medical facilities include Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital, Cape Fear Valley Rehabilitation Center, Behavioral Health Care, Bladen County Hospital, Hoke Hospital, Central Harnett Hospital, Betsy Johnson Hospital, as well as several medical offices and clinics spread throughout the region. Residents can expound on their clinical skills while treating patients within the Internal Medicine Continuity Clinic located at one of the Cape Fear Valley locations, Health Pavilion North.

With a priority placed on resident wellness, our location in the heart of North Carolina provides proximity to both the beaches and mountains with several hobbies, interests, and activities available for us to participate in as a group and our residents to enjoy in their ample downtime. The faculty at Cape Fear Valley is comprised of a diverse group of physicians with a wealth of academic, military, and community experience. This dedicated group of teachers has a singular focus on preparing our residents to face the ever-changing practice of Internal Medicine and assisting them to become the best they can be for themselves and the patients they serve. This methodology is fostered by a team-based, collegial approach to resident training, as well as daily didactic sessions to deepen the residents' core knowledge.