Prisma Health-University of South Carolina SOM Greenville Greenville Program

Program Identity & Fit

Prisma Health/USC SOM Greenville Emergency Medicine is a three-year, 10-residents-per-class program explicitly self-described as a hybrid between academic and community emergency medicine, anchored at Greenville Memorial Hospital, an 820-bed Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center with over 100,000 ED visits/year and a 25% critical care admission rate, supplemented by five integrated community ED sites. The curriculum emphasizes early clinical autonomy and high-acuity exposure from intern year (interns intubating within their first shifts), heavy procedural volume, and structured rotations through critical care, pediatrics, ultrasound, toxicology, EMS, and ED administration. Scholarly activity is required of all residents, and the program supports diverse post-residency paths, citing recent graduates entering critical care and sports medicine fellowships as well as its own newly established ultrasound and medical education/technology fellowships, alongside those entering community practice. Affiliations with Clemson and Furman for scholarly work, a deliberately individualized mentorship model pairing residents with both solo community physicians and fellowship-trained academicians, and a stated emphasis on camaraderie and resident wellbeing distinguish its identity as a flexible, output-focused hybrid program rather than a strictly academic or strictly community one.