Program Schedule
As a resident you'll spend majority of your time at Greenville Memorial Hospital. On an EM block you'll spend your time in our four different pods, including the pediatric ED for continuity, as well as community sites introduced in PGY2. We also include an assortment of meaningful off-service rotations. Our charter class, Class of 2020, each gave input on each off-service rotation and program leadership takes suggestions and feedback seriously. Our curriculum is divided into 13 four week blocks.
Unique Program Highlights
Didactics Conference
We are fortunate to have a well thought out conference schedule that includes consistent teaching of topics such as EKGs, ultrasound, simulation, procedure training, pediatric presentations, case conference presented by residents of cases seen on shift, morbidity and mortality, grand rounds, broad review, C3 review, and statistics to name a few. We also take advantage of asynchronous learning with EMRA and ACEP memberships including PEER questions and EMRAP, as well as Rosh and Board Vitals all provided.
Wellness
We value wellness. We take protected time each month for a breakfast or lunch as well as meet with just two faculty members to discuss how we are doing and check in. Residency is hard. But you're not alone.
Meaningful Off-Service
Off-service on other services are meant to help you become a better emergency medicine physician by training you in another area of medicine. We recognize that this should be spent wisely, maximizing your education. Our program prioritizes that. All our off-service has been trial tested by the current residents and passed their seal of approval and meeting GME requirements. See the list above on the Program Schedule.
ICU:
Critical care is a key feature of any emergency medicine physician. At our program, we want you to graduate feeling competent in taking care of very sick patients. That's why we include many ICU rotations in our education, highlighted by 2 months in the medicine ICU as interns. Our medicine ICU team is very unique in that our team is solely made up of EM Residents, supervised by pulmonary/critical care board certified physicians. Our team is made up of two interns, one PGY2, and one PGY3 each block. The benefits are comfort with sick patients, increase of knowledge of serious pathology, and an abundance of procedure practice.
Procedures: Average number of procedures the Class of 2021 had logged at the end of their intern year:
- Adult Medical Resuscitations (108)
- Adult Trauma Resuscitations (85)
- Arterial Lines (12)
- Central Venous Access (16)
- Chest Tubes (4)
- Dislocation Reductions (30)
- ED Bedside Ultrasound Scans (80)
- Intubations (77)
- Lumbar Punctures (13)
- Pediatric Medical Resuscitations (25)
- Pediatric Trauma Resuscitations (9)
- Vaginal Deliveries (15)
Other Program Highlights
- 1:1 attending to resident ratio on shift
- No hierarchy: Interns start out in the highest acuity pod from the start, expected to see sick patients
- Teaching opportunities for the UofSC School of Medicine Greenville M3 and M4 as well as visiting Acting Interns/Sub I's both in formal settings and on shift
- Academic and community medicine mix with the many EDs within our hospital system
- Ultrasound Fellowship that started July 2020 with two fellows, Dr. Dion and Dr. Gregory
- Medical Education & Technology Fellowship, that started July 2020 with one fellow, Dr. Astemborski
- Plan for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, coming soon
- Electives in just about anything you can think. Leadership is also open to any elective suggestion that you may have
- Mentoring program where each resident selects a faculty mentor and given an upper level resident mentor
Overview of July Orientation
As our new interns, arrive we value the time for them to get to know each other and make that important adjustment from student to physician. Our July Orientation month is envied because it allows each new resident to not only get to know their peers, their new town, but also get a great introduction into EM residency. During July, you'll work clinical shifts, participate in a multitude of simulation and procedure labs, a Day of Service, the annual Downtown Greenville Scavenger Hunt, the welcome party, the intern retreat which is a weekend away in the beautiful Asheville, NC, a Greenville Drive Game, EMS rescue and wilderness medicine day (which includes a guest appearance from the Black Hawk National Guard helicopter to hoist you up out of Lake Jocassee), and many other sessions to help orient you to the hospital, the ED, and off service rotations.
Engaged Faculty with Diverse Training Backgrounds
With more than one hundred emergency medicine trained faculty in the department, our residency offers exposure to attendings from a wide variety of backgrounds. We believe this heterogeneity allows our residents to figure out what is standard of care versus simply a "style point". Additionally, when it comes time for the job hunt, you can count on our broad networks to connect you with department leaders nationwide.
Where our faculty trained:
Residency:
- Beaumont – Laskowski
- Brown University - McGregor
- Carolinas Medical Center/Atrium – Holmes, Kahler, Lawson, Rochester, Sasser
- Case Western- Throckmorton
- Charity Hospital- Gregg
- Cincinnati – Blackwell, Declan, Harrison, Hudepohl, Mann, Moschella
- Duke – Morrow, Reardon
- Eastern VA- Duncan, Gleason
- Earl K Long- Rau
- ECU/Vidant Medical Center – Cabaniss, Koch, Mehta, Russell
- Emory – Bitner, Pitts, Worthington
- Geisinger – Gray, Triner
- Georgetown – Pittman, Shasteen
- Grandview Hospital – Hobbs
- Hackensack- Reyes
- Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency – Eicken
- Henry Ford Hospital – R. Chahoud, Diaz, Farris, Jackson
- Indiana University – Bosshardt, Ossmann, Pfennig, M. Scott, Siddle
- Johns Hopkins – A. Ramsay, M. Ramsay
- LSU – Barrett, Cromer, Johnson, Manasco
- Lincoln Medical Center- S. Strasberg, M. Strasberg
- Mayo – Bellew
- Medical College of Georgia- Alderman, Beltran, McKechnie, J. Williams
- Medical College of Wisconsin – Coldebella, Perino
- Methodist Hospital of Indiana- Chiles
- Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center – Schwerin
- Michigan State – Cranston
- MUSC – Bailey, Bridges, Burroughs, Helms, Mahoney, Nall, A. Ross, Witt
- Northwestern – Roth
- OSU - Pirrallo
- Penn State - Salman
- Palmetto/ Prisma Health Richland – Barr, Bryant, Depp, Fielding
- Prisma Health Upstate - Astemborski, Brown, Honeycutt, Lynch, Matthews, Mauhar, Shah
- San Antonio- R. Jones
- Sinai-Grace Hospital – Duhe
- Spectrum Health- Clark
- St. Luke’s Hospital – Bogart
- St. Mary Mercy- L. Chahoud
- St. Vincent Toledo- Lance, Lutz
- Summa Health- Laney
- Tampa- J. Smith
- Tulane – Gregg
- University of Alabama- Crawford
- University of Arkansas- McGuff
- University of California Davis- Millhouse
- University of Florida – Elkes (USF), Maloney, Mannion (USF)
- University of Kentucky – Lance, Lommel
- University of Louisville – Malmstrom
- UMass – Connelly
- University of Michigan – Hirsh
- University of New York Buffalo- D. Williams
- UNC-Chapel Hill – Cifuni
- University of Pennsylvania- Kemmler
- University of Rochester – Fabiano
- University of Tennessee/Erlanger – Gaafary, Walsh
- University of Texas- Cobb
- University of Virginia – Baird, Janse
- Vanderbilt – Keyes, K. Scott
- Virginia Tech/Carilion Health – Dupuis
- West Virginia- Neuffer
- York- Gregory
Fellowship:
- EMS – Beltran (Emory), Bitner (Emory), Mannion (USF), Ossmann (Carolinas), Pirrallo (Beaumont), Sasser (Carolinas), Schwerin (Mercy Health St. Vincent), Cobb (UT Southwestern), Swartzentruber (Palmetto Richland)
- International Emergency Medicine – Depp (Columbia University), Reardon (Vanderbilt)
- Medical Education – Pfennig (Vanderbilt), Reyes (St. Josephs)
- PEM – Burroughs (Wake Forest), Crawford (Birmingham), Demartini (Syracuse), Dietrich (Nationwide Childrens), Granger (Vanderbilt), Jones (UNC), Malmstrom (Louisville), Maloney (Children’s National), Neal (Carolinas), Polley (Alabama), Smith (Carolinas), Wilson (University of Tennessee – Memphis)
- Sports Medicine – Bailey (Prisma Health), Baird (University of Arizona), Bosshardt (Stanford), Shasteen (Prisma), Mauhar (Prisma Upstate)
- Research – Bellew (Vanderbilt), Kahler (Indiana)
- Ultrasound – Eicken (Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Gleason (Eastern Virginia Medical School), Gregory (Prisma Upstate), Honeycutt (Prisma Upstate), Jaffa (Duke), Manasco (Prisma Upstate), Morrow (USC/Palmetto Health), Strasberg (Maimonides), Throckmorton (Prisma Upstate)
- Wilderness Medicine - Mann (Mass General)
