McLeod Regional Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

McLeod Regional Medical Center's Internal Medicine Residency is a new, community-based program (first class July 2026) anchored at a 517-bed, locally owned not-for-profit hospital in Florence, SC, functioning as a Level II trauma center with over 100,000 annual ED visits, 40,000 admissions, four ICUs, and onsite interventional cardiology and oncology services. The curriculum explicitly prepares residents for three parallel paths - Primary Care, Hospital Medicine, and Subspecialty Fellowship - with a 6+2 block structure, six half-days of continuity clinic weekly, POCUS/simulation training, and a "Business of Medicine" series emphasizing administrative and systems exposure. Research and quality improvement are described as encouraged through mentoring and protected administrative time rather than positioned as a defining institutional output. The program frames itself around resident autonomy within a supportive community hospital environment and multidisciplinary team integration, serving a rural/regional South Carolina population across a broader seven-hospital health system.