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Neurology Residency Greer

Mailing Address

109 Physician Drive
Suite C
Greer, SC 29650

How to Apply

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About Residencies

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Program Overview and Objectives

Welcome to Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Neurology Residency Program. Established in 2020, the program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), emphasizing a multidisciplinary approach to the core competencies of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal skills and communication, professionalism and systems-based practice.

Our staff and teachers will help train the next generation of physicians to provide full spectrum neurological care and to be innovators of patient care, teaching and discovering new treatments and techniques to help conquer neurological diseases.

Our curriculum is designed to ensure residents get a robust education and exposure to the diversity of neurologic care. As a categorical program, our residents spend their PGY 1 year with our Greenville Internal Medicine program getting a well-rounded intern experience. Our PGY 1 residents also participate in Neurology Continuity Clinics and start to build their own clinic base. Transitioning to PGY 2 year, our residents begin with a Neurology Boot Camp designed to review the basics and initiate residents to the neurology curriculum. We expose the residents to the breadth of inpatient and outpatient neurology subspecialties in their PGY 2 year to build a solid foundation in neurology. The PGY 3 curriculum is designed to build on the foundation established in PGY 2 and delve deeper into the various neurology subspecialties. Finally, in PGY 4, the curriculum is designed to transition residents to independently practicing neurologists.

Our primary objective is to educate and teach the skills required for our residents to become leaders in their field. We, as a program, will promote compassion and interpersonal skills to coincide with the knowledge base that not only lets you grow into the best doctors you can be but also the best people. Our secondary objective is to foster friendships and relationships you can carry with you beyond residency and into the future.

Program Highlights

Categorical four-year program with six residents per year (24 total)
Well-rounded clinical curriculum with a balance of inpatient and outpatient rotations
Protected time for weekly didactics and Neuro Boot Camp to ease transition into PGY 2 year
Robust mentorship program and wellness focus with annual resident retreat (PGY 2-4)
State of the art Clinical Simulation Lab to learn procedures and clinical skills
Inpatient rotations at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital
- 820-bed Comprehensive Stroke Center and Level 1 Trauma Center
- Mix of primary and consult patients on our 3 inpatient teams
  - Stroke Team
  - General Neurology Team
  - Neurocritical Care Team

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so i'm sahar chaudhry i'm the neurology

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residency program director at

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prisma health upstate and our program is

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located in greer

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i think what really sets any program

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apart from

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another program really comes down to its

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culture and the people in that program

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because that's what you can't replicate

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from one program to to the next

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we have faculty from a wide

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diversity of training programs

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themselves

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and they were able to come here and

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bring the best of their training

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programs to create something that i

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think is quite unique

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the other thing is is the the pathology

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that we see

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here in the upstate you know it's easy

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to talk about we're in the stroke belt

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and we have a lot of cerebrovascular

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disease and we do

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have a very diverse amount of

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cerebrovascular disease

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but we see a lot of very profound and

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interesting general neurology pathology

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as well

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and we have a great balance of inpatient

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and outpatient

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neurology experiences and i think that

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really helps

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set us apart we really wanted to give

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them

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an opportunity to at least have

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done rotations in some of the major

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neurologic sub-specialties

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in their pgy2 year so that by the time

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there are pgy3s and they need to start

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making

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decisions and thinking about what they

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want to do in the future they at least

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have experienced

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the breadth of what neurology has to

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offer not just

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our program but our institution in

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general really

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really puts a an emphasis on

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diversity and wellness we are very

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very open to changing and flexing things

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and seeing what works and what doesn't

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work prisma health

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really has done an outstanding job in

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really understanding the importance of

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academics to

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medicine and health care in general

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they've created this vision they've

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helped develop this vision

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and now we get to actually see our

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vision come to life in our residence so

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that's very exciting for us

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my name is sarah zaheer this is my first

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year of residency at greer neurology

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with being a new program i knew it was a

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great opportunity for leadership

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and to pave the way for other residents

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and for the residency program

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so first year is like all internal

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medicine and

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we're getting introduced to neurology

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saying that it's a good mixture of

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medicine and neurology because

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two days of the week i come down to

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greer and i have neurology continuity

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clinics

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so it's a good mixture of medicine in

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the morning neurology

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in the afternoon i'm john hanna i am a

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first year intern at the greer neurology

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program

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between the residents and the staff here

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dr chowdhury and everybody here they

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just

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go out of their way to make sure that

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you're comfortable and that you're not

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being

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uh you're not in over your head the idea

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here is that

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we don't feel compelled to have to do a

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fellowship

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because we're going to have so much

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outpatient exposure and so we're going

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to sort of see the breadth of neurology

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so that we'll hopefully feel comfortable

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in general neurology by the time we

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leave

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the hospital system in and of itself

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is just been so great for me there's

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there's a sense of warmth

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when you interact with people here and

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it feels very natural everyone whether

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it's with patients

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or whether it's with co-workers just how

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much everybody is

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so great at meshing together and working

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together and coming

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really becoming a part of one team

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greenville itself

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has an excellent downtown area i'm an

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avid hiker

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i love being outdoors i recently

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discovered the

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swamp rabbit trail and i do try to spend

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my weekends

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close to falls park it's really amazing

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views down there

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every time i come back over here to this

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clinic that like excitement comes back

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and i and i really get i love

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experiencing that every day again

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where i just get to you know be excited

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for what i'm here to do for the rest of

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my life

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