Prisma Health-University of South Carolina SOM Columbia Columbia Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated, community-based academic program (Prisma Health/USC School of Medicine Columbia) built around a broad general medicine service at Richland Hospital and Dorn VA, with a dedicated Primary Care Track running alongside the categorical program. Clinical training emphasizes ambulatory continuity through an NCQA Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home, team-based chronic disease management, quality improvement, social determinants of health, and population health, alongside robust subspecialty exposure (cardiology at a free-standing heart hospital, the region's largest outpatient ID/Ryan White HIV practice, geriatrics with the state's only geriatric fellowship, and point-of-care ultrasound training via the USC Ultrasound Institute). Research is present as an elective option and administrative/QI experience but is not positioned as central to program identity; the explicit career framing is toward primary care, hospital medicine, and fellowship equally, without a stated preference for one over the others. The program values collegiality, wellness, and longitudinal mentorship (each primary care resident paired with a PC mentor), and prepares residents for practice in varied settings—rural, urban, academic, or private.