Prisma Health-University of South Carolina SOM Greenville Greenville Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated, community-embedded five-year orthopaedic surgery program based at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital and USC School of Medicine Greenville, combining nearly 30 fellowship-trained faculty across all major subspecialties with high case volume that the program states places graduates "among the nation's most experienced residents." The clinical identity is built on a resident-run continuity clinic granting unusual longitudinal autonomy, Division I sports medicine coverage for Clemson athletics, a pediatric affiliation with Shriners Hospitals for Children, and a curriculum deliberately structured to balance OR and clinic exposure evenly across all five years rather than back-loading operative experience. Research is a structural requirement (protocol/grant proposal, one presentation, one publishable abstract per resident) but the program explicitly frames itself as producing both strong fellowship placements and residents "comfortable enough to pursue private practice without a fellowship," reflecting a dual academic-community orientation. The program emphasizes a tight-knit family culture, mentorship pods, professional/personal development curricula, and a historic annual academic day (Greenville Orthopedic Day, since 1975), signaling that collegiality, longitudinal patient ownership, and well-rounded surgical maturation are valued as much as raw research output.