Medical University of South Carolina Regional Network Florence Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a rural-underserved-focused, community-based family medicine program operating under the MUSC Regional Network, anchored at a 396-bed regional acute care hospital in Florence, SC and a federally qualified community health center (HopeHealth), with additional pediatric and rural primary care sites in Mullins and Lake City. Training emphasizes full-scope, procedure-rich outpatient continuity practice (IUD placement, joint injections, skin biopsies, I&Ds, POCUS, obstetric deliveries in a high-volume OB/GYN service exceeding 900 deliveries/year), mostly through 1:1 precepting rather than large resident teams. Research is present only as required QI projects and senior didactic presentations, not an institutional priority, and the program's explicit mission centers on producing physicians who will practice full-scope primary care in rural and medically underserved South Carolina communities, with career-long retention and an alumni network as stated goals. The program values self-directed learners who can build procedural competence and work autonomously in low-resource, rural clinical settings rather than pursue subspecialization.