The Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Pediatric Residency Program in Columbia is a fully accredited, three-year program. We accept 13 residents at each level with instruction, guidance and supervision provided by a staff of more than 100 full-time board-certified physicians.
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our dedication to educational excellence
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i think is something that really is
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above and beyond what other programs can
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offer for people
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and what i mean by that is that we don't
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settle for the surface value of things
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that our program won't allow for our
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trainees just to say
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yeah i understand that and memorize
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factoids we want everybody to understand
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the why part of things
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the why to take care of kids is always
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the easy part of things in pediatrics
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but understanding the why and the
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disease process and the other things
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that go into taking care of kids i think
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is a big part of our
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training program and something that all
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of our faculty members
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and even all of our residents i think
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really appreciate and buy into
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it's not always an easy thing to to have
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to deal with illness and
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in people but when you have a group of
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people around you who really care about
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each other
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it makes all those things that much
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easier to do
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this kind of mid-sized 12-person program
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is perfect
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there are enough people to cover the
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shifts that i'm not always
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on call which is very nice my autonomy
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has evolved
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i am pretty capable of doing things like
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this when at the beginning i didn't need
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that much autonomy and
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it's nice to always have somebody to
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fall back on and someone asked questions
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too but also to feel like you're really
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improving and
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getting to share that
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if we have a procedure if you're on
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hemank and you have a bone marrow biopsy
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you're the one that does it because
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there's no fellow there there's not
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five or six people in hemon fighting for
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it same thing if you're on nephrology
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you do your kidney biopsies when we're
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on the floor we do all our lumbar
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punctures so i think that
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the size has been perfect my typical day
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usually involves waking up
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pretty early and then coming into work
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and sometimes it's a clinic day
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typically get here around eight if we
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have a clinic talk which will be
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a talk by one of the residents or one of
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the attendings on a topic
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if we don't have a clinic talk i get
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here at 8 30. see patients all morning
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depending on how busy we are i may see
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anywhere from four to seven
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patients in the morning then we break
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for lunch and we
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normally have a lecture after lunch i'll
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go back to seeing patients normally we
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wrap up around 4 or 4 30
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and we'll finish our notes for the day i
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think for me
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i've always felt very inspired by our
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pediatric cancer patients and i just
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last month
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did my pediatric hematology and oncology
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rotation
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and they are just so inspiring to me
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because they're going through
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just absolutely unimaginable things
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getting medicines that would make you or
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i
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not even want to get out of our beds and
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they are
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running around the hemok floor shooting
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me with nerf guns
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and painting my nails and they just
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they just inspire me so much i think it
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can't be
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said enough how amazing the people here
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are not just
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my co-residents but my attendings
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i have had attendings actually seek me
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out with opportunities for me to
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do research or write a book chapter with
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them and i just think that's incredible
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that
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they bring things to us because they
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want to make us better and want to give
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us opportunities to grow and to learn
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i am probably most proud of the fact
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that it's not
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my program that it's our program
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it's a program that's been put together
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by
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the the people who have worked through
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it and have come through it will come
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through it too
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and that's kind of what makes us who we
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are as
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is the past and all the people who've
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helped to mold it into this amazing
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place
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that prepares people for general
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pediatrics but also subspecialty
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pediatrics and also looks to the future
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and says what could we be doing better
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for our trainees how could we be making
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this better
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and we don't just settle for hey we're
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good enough it makes you feel like
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you're a part of something bigger than
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yourself and you're doing it for the
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right reasons so that you train people
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to take care of kids which is a real fun
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thing to do and a joyful thing to do
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but it really is a meaningful thing too
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Our program’s emphasis is on developing pediatric residents into well-rounded physicians with a strong general pediatric background. We focus on the education of pediatric residents in both general and subspecialty practice to create an experience meant to meet the needs of today’s graduating resident, whether that leads to further training through fellowship or entrance into the workforce in primary care.
