Internal Medicine Residency Greenville - Outpatient Experience and Clinic
Our residency continuity clinic is the Internal Medicine Clinic (IMC). Our practice provides care for a wide variety of medically complex adult patients and is conveniently located within the Greenville Memorial Hospital complex. Patients whom the residents have treated in the hospital will often follow up in this practice. Our clinic has been in existence over 20 years and cares for multi-generational families. This practice is well-supported by a dedicated nursing staff, medical assistants, social workers, a dietician, financial counselor, lab technician, pharmacists, and attending physician clinician educators. Subspecialty clinics are also held on a rotating basis, allowing residents to see their continuity patients with care needs alongside the subspecialty attending physicians. Our residents also have ample opportunity for ambulatory medicine experiences in a variety of other settings during their elective months. Our program provides educational experiences in all the major medical subspecialties and general internal medicine in satellite offices, medical center clinics and private practice settings.
Ambulatory Curriculum
All residents do two blocks of ambulatory clinic each year of residency. During this time, residents will split their time amongst continuity clinic, episodic clinic (i.e. acute care visits) and an assortment of specialty clinics. Each resident will have a panel of patients they serve as the primary care provider for throughout their three years of training. Interns also participate in an elective called Caring for the Community where they have the opportunity to work in a community practice and focus on developing skills to help them be successful in clinic.
Residents will also have continuity clinic days while on electives and non-inpatient services. Very rarely do residents have outpatient continuity while on their inpatient services (MTS, CCTS, CTS, etc.) which allows residents to focus on their inpatient patients and duties.
Specialty clinics take place in the exact same building as the continuity clinics. Attendings in those designated specialties (i.e. cardiology, dermatology, rheumatology, etc.) all come to those clinics where the residents are able to work with the specialists and see specialist level of care, consults, ongoing management, and follow-ups on a weekly basis. We also have an addiction recovery clinic in our clinic through which residents have the opportunity of rotating through. We offer a multi-disciplinary diabetes clinic with pharmacists through which residents will also work and learn what other disciplines have to offer in counseling and medical care.
Message from the Clinic Medical Director
I am extremely fortunate to be a part of Internal Medicine Residency program in Greenville for last 15 years. My passion lies in working with our residents in various settings, especially in the Internal Medicine Clinic (IMC). In my role as the medical director of IMC, I strive to create a highly educational primary care experience for our residents in collaboration with our excellent GIM attendings, staff and administrative team. IMC is established as a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and provides various resources for our patients. Our highly skilled team at IMC coordinates the care of our patients and assists our resident physicians in addressing the socioeconomic barriers their patients face. With my specific interest in behavior change and care coordination for chronic disease management especially for underserved populations, I seek to create opportunities for various quality improvement and research projects for our residents. Notable amongst past and current projects are motivational Interviewing training for health care providers, SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) for substance use disorder, patient centered motivational interviewing based diabetes support group, exercise is medicine program implementation, mindfulness for physical inactivity, depression and opioid use disorder, programs to address food insecurity and shared decision making for colorectal cancer screening. SAMHSA SBIRT grant, American Cancer Society colorectal cancer screening grant and Greenville Health Authority Mindful Greenville Project grant are some of the major funding we have received for respective projects. Recently IMC has received an advanced PCMH initiatives grant as well, which will further empower us to provide access to resources for our patients. These projects have also laid the groundwork for scholarly activity for our residents including abstracts, posters and oral presentations at local, regional and national meetings as well as manuscripts.
