Emergency Medicine Residency Greenville

As a part of the continuously growing Prisma Health committed to educating today’s and tomorrow’s healthcare professionals, Emergency Medicine (EM) residents train in the largest hospital system in South Carolina averaging over 400,000 Emergency Department (ED) patient visits/year, including 30,000 pediatric ED visits/year. Residents will focus their educational experiences at Greenville Memorial Hospital (GMH), an 820-bed Level 1 adult trauma center, pediatric trauma center, and regional referral center with a 25% critical care admission rate and over 100,000 ED visits/year.

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my name is cami fennig and i am the

emergency medicine residency program

director here at prisma health

greenville

this program is a true hybrid between

academic and community emergency

medicine

so the residents practice primarily at

greenville memorial hospital which is a

level one

over a hundred thousand ed patients a

year stroke center

primary cardiac center and all the bells

and whistles that you need to function

in a very high level

there is a very very strong

focus and stress on their education to

make sure that they feel

very well trained to go out and practice

emergency medicine

anywhere at any time as well as do

extremely well on their board exams

the key experiences in this program

really depend on what the individual

resident is looking for

every single resident will get excellent

bedside training

they will leave here with procedure logs

that are fantastic they will have

experience

innovating hundreds of patients they

will put in plenty of lines

our most recent graduates have really

spanned the map we

have a recent graduate who is a critical

care fellow

out in oregon we have a recent graduate

who is a sports medicine fellow

down in alabama we have two recent

graduates who stayed on with us

to actually help matriculate as our

first fellows in our ultrasound

fellowship and in our medical education

and technology fellowship

so really a good balance of those that

pursue academic careers

those that pursue community careers and

then the kind of in between which would

be your hybrid practice

the resident will have a chance to train

with someone who's been in community

practice

single solo by themselves for 25 years

they'll have a chance to train with the

top-notch ultrasound fellowship-trained

academicians they'll have a chance to

work with md phds to complete their

scholarly work

so we really bring in a network of many

different types of emergency physicians

and support staff to make sure that

every resident's education is crafted

individually

so that when they go to look for a job

they feel like they have all the tools

to start and be effective on day one

my name is tj lynch currently at pgy3 i

actually had the opportunity to do an

acting

internship here and i really just i

loved the program as soon as i got here

the city is amazing

there's generally anything that you want

to do they have available here

and then when i had the opportunity to

work with the different attendings here

every single one of them were very

helpful

in terms of just wanting you to progress

to be a better resident as well as just

a better person in general

so what i also loved about kind of

starting off here was the fact that we

generally just got we got thrown in

there from the beginning

there was no real graded stepwise

progression thankfully

my second shift i was already intubating

a patient which i mean we see the very

sick patients early on and i think that

is great for training altogether

it allows us to really get thrown in

there and really get more comfortable

with dealing with these sicker patients

my name's sally peterson i'm a pgy2 in

the emergency medicine program

day one of intern year i was taking care

of

really really sick patients and i felt

very supported but they gave me a lot of

autonomy even as a first year which was

super important to me it's only a three

year program

i want to get as good as possible the

attendings are

truly my colleagues yes they they know

far more than i do and they've completed

their training and

but they they treat us almost as equals

which i felt was

a big plus for this program it feels

truly like a family

each of our residents again when we go

through these tough situations

the more tough situations we go to we

talk with each other about it and it

allows us to

build a bond that's pretty much

unbreakable you'll become part of this

special

team that treats all patients up here in

the upstate

they will be able to really form bonds

with their colleagues to make sure they

feel supported both in the residency

as well as beyond their residency in

most cases they'll make friends for life

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Emergency Medicine was recognized as a full academic department under the Health Sciences Center in 2014 and, following an extensive national search, Scott M. Sasser, MD was named the founding Chair. Dr. Sasser currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Prisma Health Medical Group while still maintaining an active role within the department. Dr. Matt Bitner, who was our founding Vice Chair of Medical Staff Affairs and Quality, has taken the helms as chair, continuing our department’s leadership in transforming regional and national emergency care.

The residency program achieved accreditation in 2016 and welcomed the charter class of residents in July 2017. Our three-year residency program includes 10 residents per year with unparalleled exposure to critical care, pediatrics and community emergency medicine. In addition, residents rotate through multiple medical and surgical subspecialties with dedicated experiences in emergency medical services, ultrasound, toxicology and emergency department administration. Residents are required to perform scholarly activities that promote the specialty and further transform healthcare delivery in the Upstate of South Carolina. Special thanks go to Prisma Health, UofSC School of Medicine Greenville and the Health Sciences Center leadership for their support of Emergency Medicine at Prisma Health.

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