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The Charleston Division of West Virginia University is a branch of the Morgantown-based institution and is located on the Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Hospital campus. The WVU-CAMC partnership is the basis for an academic medical center that serves central and southern West Virginia.

This campus is the oldest regional medical education campus in the United States. Operated through an affiliation agreement between the state's largest land grant university and the state's largest tertiary care center, WVU in Charleston serves as a clinical campus for third and fourth year medical students as well as operating schools of dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and social work.

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Over 90 faculty and 400 clinical faculty provide training and educational oversight to both medical student clerkships and to the CAMC residency programs. Each year more than 60 medical students and 140 residents choose to come to this program to further their education. These and other health care students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, anesthesia, and cytotechnology come through WVU Charleston to complete their clinical rotation requirements.

 

The Charleston faculty (WVU Physicians of Charleston) provide education and oversight for the health sciences center as well as patient care services to the Kanawha Valley, the metropolitan area, and to specialized health referral needs of people living throughout southern West Virginia. The faculty is dedicated to the principle of quality care generated by the presence of students and residents. The West Virginia Poison Center is located on the Charleston Division campus and provides toxicology and pharmacy training opportunities. The WVPC became a Cerfified Regional Poison Center in 1986, one of only 54 in the U.S.

A strong and active School of Nursing provides programs in MSN, RN-MSN, post MSN-NP, DSN and School Nurse Certification.

The School of Pharmacy, with 5 full-time faculty, is responsible for approximately 1/3 of the clinical training of WVU undergraduate and doctor of pharmacy students. Interdisciplinary problem-based learning is a goal of the WVU-Charleston health professional schools.

The Charleston Center of the Division of Social Work is a graduate program offering advanced study and training in preparing social workers for leadership roles in small towns and rural areas. The Charleston program supports part-time graduate study in Charleston and Beckely and is designed for individuals who are working full time and need to attend classes in the evening.

Multi-discipline decision making and cooperative health care planning is demonstrated to students as the essential factor in disease management. The importance of role and the concept of teamwork between the professions is one of the "lessons" learned in all the schools of the WVU-Charleston Division. The environment is subject to a continuous fine tuning necessary to '"update" the system to assure contemporary medical education and clinical experience. The provision of technology, library, parking, housing and collegial environment are but a few of the actions taken to accomodate the health care professionals' educational experience here.

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CAMC Health Education and Research Institute For information about our residency programs write to:
Graduate Medical Education
3110 MacCorkle Ave. S.E.
Charleston, WV 25304
or call (304) 388-9948
Email:gme@camc.org



 


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