The Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia Internal Medicine Residency Program is a fully accredited three-year training program offering in-depth exposure to primary patient care and subspecialties in internal medicine.
Video: Internal Medicine Residency
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a reason that i joined this faculty
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more than 15 years ago was the
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collegiality amongst the group and the
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willingness
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of folks to see their responsibility as
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a member of a unit
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and to be flexible enough to contribute
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to that unit in whatever way was
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necessary
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so i think that's allowed us to
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intentionally recruit residents who feel
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the same way
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about their contribution to the
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workforce i feel like
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one important consideration for training
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is whether you'll get a
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really good breadth of experiences and
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so we're very intentionally striving
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to make sure that residents get a
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healthy dose
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of real world inpatient general medicine
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an appropriate amount of sort of more
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intense care
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in our medical intensive care unit and
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our ccu so both of those are
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required and incorporated into rotations
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that every resident will experience
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certainly every resident experience is
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outpatient primary care internal
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medicine
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in our system you experience it in four
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week blocks
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so that it feels a little bit more like
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what being a primary care internist
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would be like
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in your future career but what's equally
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important
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is to have very wide access to
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sub-specialty rotations
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there's no way for you to decide as a
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resident that you want to sign on for
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the rest of your life as a cardiologist
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or a nephrologist or a pulmonary
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critical care physician
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if you don't have opportunity to spend
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some time with those folks and see what
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they really do in their day-to-day life
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so i think there's a nice balance
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of opportunity between inpatient and
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outpatient and general medicine and
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subspecialty
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when i'm talking to students that i'm
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mentoring or
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even applicants who approach me with an
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interest in our program
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and i think about things that i think
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they would be interested in hearing
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about and knowing about and how our
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program could uniquely contribute to
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their education
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there are a couple of key pieces one is
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our emphasis on inter-professional
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health care we really feel like that
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is the wave of the future in every area
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of medicine
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the other thing that i think sets us
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apart is how we use
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bedside or point of care ultrasound so
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we feel
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again that that really meaningfully
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contributes to our ability to get
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answers more quickly
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and to more effectively provide patient
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care
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i would say the main factors that led me
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to choose this particular residency
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one of which was during my interview day
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the program had just a very good
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sense of camaraderie a very good sense
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of welcomeness
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in the program another one would be my
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career goals are
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to do a fellowship with cardiology i
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wish this program this hospital program
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has one
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and a pretty good one and the third one
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is just kind of the big academic
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hospital setting
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knowing that i would have exposure to
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residents of all sorts of
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specialties and subspecialties and that
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way you kind of increase your own
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learning experience
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i applied very widely through kind of
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the southern portions of the united
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states i wanted some place warm
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of which this place definitely is very
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warm in terms of its location i mean
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it's very centrally located
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i like that i'm near kind of asheville
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charlotte charleston
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savannah atlanta even um so
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i have the ability to kind of go and do
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things on my time off this place itself
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has a pretty good amount of nature
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pretty good hikes nearby
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i love the river the congo river is a
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lot of fun the saluda is a lot of fun
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they have great river walks
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see i would say the best part of my
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experience has been kind of my
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co-residence
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i think the world of my class and even
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the classes above and below me
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were all really easy going and good to
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work with
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no one's very difficult and you know we
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all kind of have each other's backs
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and i really appreciate that kind of
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system and environments
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of learning i would say autonomy um you
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know
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when you go from your first year to your
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second year there's a quite a huge burst
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and then from second year to third year
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they're basically trust interesting you
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with
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a lot of these patients care and it all
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kind of starts in the medical icu i
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think the medical icu is very resident
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run
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and that's where you kind of earn you
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learn your own confidence and your own
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abilities and you
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and you kind of use those skills that
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you get in the medical ic you kind of
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push your stamp on patients in
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all other rotations you kind of feel
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more confident being your own physician
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i'm hata muyajit i'm a first-year
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resident
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at internal medicine program at prisma
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health transition from a medical school
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to a residency is a very hard step
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and having the right people around you
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speaking of right people i mean senior
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residents attendings
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who will lead you every step of the way
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and teaching you how to become
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a great doctor makes a huge difference
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and i think so far this program exceeded
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my expectation
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in platinum when i was applying the for
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residency program i was looking up for a
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training
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that would offer me to become a better
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doctor
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and doctor that can treat various
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clinical
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diseases and at the same time
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i was also looking for a program that is
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offering
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a good life and work balance and i think
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that this program that the prisma health
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actually fulfilled both of my
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requirements so colombia
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um it's a great city to live and it has
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great people
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and so speaking from the perspective
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of a person who didn't grow maybe around
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here
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people i was so actually surprised that
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people
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are so friendly and so accepting
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and especially in this program as well
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so
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that is one of the factors that actually
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drew me here
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for now since i'm at the beginning i'm
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still
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not sure about whether i'll continue
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with a fellowship or just
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continue with the general internal
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medicine but
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i can say that this program is a great
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foundation no matter
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what path we choose
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you
In our program, residents devote time to inpatient care in general medicine services at Prisma Health Richland Hospital and Dorn VA Medical Center, in addition to ambulatory care, medical intensive care and elective subspecialty rotations.
Elective rotation opportunities include cardiology, pulmonary, gastroenterology, allergy/immunology, nephrology, neurology, rheumatology, dermatology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, endocrinology, as well as unique opportunities such as hospital internal medicine, private practice outpatient primary care, ultrasound, wilderness medicine and global health. All categorical internal medicine residents spend three 4-week blocks in the general medicine outpatient clinic evaluating new patients and return patients for experience in outpatient continuity of care in addition to several half-day subspecialty outpatient clinical experiences.
