The main teaching hospital of the medical school is the North Carolina Baptist Hospital, which contains 806 general hospital beds.
Patients come from all parts of North Carolina and from many other states.
The medical school and hospital buildings join to form a single unit, resulting in close correlation of clinical and basic medical science teaching programs. More than 23,700 patient admissions, with more than 204,000 total patient days of care annually, and 557,500 ambulatory patient visits, allow medical students and house officers the opportunity to observe a broad range of unusual medical problems as well as the more common diseases. Library The Coy C. Carpenter Library of the Medical Center is located on the first floor of the medical school's James A. Gray Building. The library contains extensive collections in all of the medical and surgical specialties and the basic sciences, as well as collections in nursing and allied health. Domestic and foreign periodicals, textbooks, monographs, audiovisuals, and computer software are included.