Magazine ranks ECU among top primary care medical schools
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is ranked among the top medical schools in the country that emphasize primary care, according to the annual listing of the...
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ECU sends 66 percent into primary care residencies
Nearly two-thirds of the medical students graduating from East Carolina University this spring will enter primary care residencies. Those are the results of the annual Match Day, celebrated today amid...
Medical students ready for annual Match Day on Thursday
Graduating East Carolina University medical students will learn where they will spend the next few years as doctors-in-training during the annual Match Day at noon Thursday, March 20, in the...
UNC Board of Governors endorses plan to expand medical education in North Carolina
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors today endorsed a plan to expand medical education at the state's two public medical schools to address a predicted future physician shortage...
Links between environment and obesity to be topic of Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit
The role of environmental factors, particularly exposure to certain plastics and pesticides while women are pregnant, in the development of childhood obesity will be the topic of the fifth annual...
Smiles all around as officials break ground for dental school
Local, state and university leaders didn't let rain dampen their enthusiasm as they broke ground today for the new East Carolina University School of Dentistry. The 112,500-square-foot building will go...
ECU Physicians and Eastern Neurosurgical and Spine Associates to merge
ECU Physicians and a private neurosurgery practice plan to merge and take steps toward developing the region's first neuroscience institute at East Carolina University. Eastern Neurosurgical and Spine Associates, a...
ECU surgeon elected president of Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. was elected president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons during the group's 44th annual meeting Jan. 27-29 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Chitwood is senior associate...
Concert to benefit Grimesland clinic
A Feb. 10 concert by the East Carolina University Symphony Orchestra will help raise money for the Grimesland Free Clinic. The concert begins at 3 p.m. in Wright Auditorium on...
ECU, UNC team up on cancer care, research
he University of North Carolina's two medical schools and their cancer centers have created a partnership to advance cancer research and bring leading-edge treatment to North Carolinians. Officials at East...