Pediatrics

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Philosophy

The Greenville Hospital System/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Pediatric Residency Program at Greenville Hospital System Children’s Hospital provides teaching and clinical experience that enables residents to become capable, competent, compassionate pediatricians. An emphasis is placed on close preceptorship and individual skill building. A congenial, supportive relationship among faculty, residents, and medical students helps to minimize the stress common to residency training. The Children’s Hospital delivers quality primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare to children in upstate South Carolina, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia.

Objectives

  • Prepare residents to meet challenges and opportunities in the rapidly changing specialty of pediatrics
  • Provide a broad range of educational opportunities in both ambulatory and hospital-based settings
  • Prepare residents to provide excellent, cost-effective medical care within a managed care environment
  • Provide the opportunity to pursue careers in General Pediatrics or a pediatric subspecialty following completion of fellowship training

Program Overview

The Pediatric Residency Program of Greenville Hospital System Children’s Hospital is a three-year training program, fully approved by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. Twenty-eight residents are currently in the training program, nine at each of the three levels and one chief (PL-4) resident. The current pediatric residents represent 12 medical schools. The program’s size is ideal for extensive interaction between faculty and residents. Residents routinely participate in curriculum and faculty evaluations, and attend monthly meetings and an off-campus faculty retreat.

We select residents at the postgraduate year-one level through the National Resident Matching Program. We require all applicants to visit Greenville Hospital System for an interview. In general, residents chosen for our program are from the upper quartile of their graduating class.

A diverse inpatient experience caring for acutely ill children, many of whom require subspecialty consultation and intensive care, is balanced by outpatient rotations emphasizing medical, behavioral, and developmental aspects of well-child care and treatment of common childhood diseases. Graduates of the Pediatric Program either enter private practice or elect to complete a subspecialty fellowship in pursuit of full-time academic opportunities. Fellowship choices have included Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care, Cardiology, Ambulatory/Community Pediatrics, Child Abuse and Neglect, Allergy/Immunology, Emergency Medicine, Genetics, Neurology, Endocrinology, and Hematology/Oncology. Graduates have completed fellowships at many different sites, including Georgetown University, The University of Louisville, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Michigan State University, Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati, Denver Children’s Hospital, Baylor University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and UCLA.

Admission Criteria

Residents are selected at the postgraduate year-one level through the National Resident Matching Program. All applicants are required to visit Greenville Hospital System for an interview. Residents in the program are generally from the upper quartile of their graduating class.

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Affiliations

Affiliations with the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine provide medical student rotations in Pediatrics. Additionally, 24 medical students from the University of South Carolina spend their entire third and fourth years of medical school at Greenville Hospital System, which serves as a clinical campus for the medical school.