Prisma Health-University of South Carolina SOM Greenville Greer Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-oriented, university-affiliated psychiatry program (Prisma Health/USC School of Medicine Greenville) built around a distinctive longitudinal curriculum in which residents follow the same outpatient panels from intern year through graduation while rotating through family medicine, neurology, and psychiatry clinics on a repeating weekly template rather than block scheduling. Psychotherapy training begins in the first weeks of PGY1 and continues across all four years, supplemented by an unusually wide array of subspecialty and resident-driven elective clinics (reproductive psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, addiction, death/dying/grief, eating disorders, media, LGBTQ+ psychiatry), several of which originated from resident interests. Clinical exposure includes community mental health, a detention center rotation, ECT, and a heavily elective PGY4 year, reflecting an outpatient- and psychotherapy-centric identity rather than a procedural or inpatient-heavy one; research is available as an elective pathway but is not positioned as central. The program explicitly values relational continuity, faculty mentorship, resident-initiated program building, and wellness/work-life balance, and resident narratives consistently emphasize supportive culture and self-directed exploration of niche clinical interests over competitive academic output.