Graduate Medical Education

Internal Medicine

Welcome to our Internal Medicine Residency Program web page! We are glad that you are interested in our program.  View a video message from Dr. J. Michael Fuller, our Program Director.

Philosophy

Our goal is to stimulate lifelong learning and to provide training in performance and application of sophisticated procedures and advanced technologies and to provide the background skills necessary for successful practice in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment with training in medical ethics, the business of medicine, and professionalism.

Objectives

  • To prepare residents to be competent, well-rounded, compassionate internists who are equipped to provide excellent patient care or to enter fellowship training
  • To stimulate lifelong learning and to provide training in performance and application of sophisticated procedures and advanced technologies
  • To provide residents with the background skills necessary for successful practice in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment with training in medical ethics, the business of medicine, and professionalism

Program Overview

The Greenville Health System/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program is a three-year training program, fully accredited for five years by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. Our 2011 board pass rate was 100% (10 out of 10). We select 10 residents to train here each year.

One of the unique features and major assets of our program is the close relationship that our faculty builds with residents. The size of our program is ideal for extensive interaction between faculty and residents. We are proud of the collegial atmosphere in our program, an atmosphere born of mutual respect between residents and attendings. Yet, in our mentoring of residents, we strive to create an appropriate balance between providing supervision and granting the residents independence in patient care. We consider our residents fully practicing physicians and, consequently, expect them to be committed both to providing the best care and to learning all they can.

We are proud of our graduates, many of whom enter a general internal medicine practice or hospitalist practice. Some elect to complete subspecialty training in cardiology, pulmonology, critical care medicine, endocrinology, allergy/immunology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, nephrology, or infectious diseases. These graduates have found rewarding positions in programs at the Medical University of South Carolina, Georgetown University, The University of South Carolina, the University of Chicago, The University of Mississippi, The Medical College of Georgia, Case-Western University, The Medical College of Virginia, Bowman-Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, and many other prestigious institutions. 

Internal Medicine Program Links 

"What sets us apart from other Internal Medicine Residency Programs?" An overview from the program director.

Curriculum Overview

Ambulatory Education

Conferences

Research

Faculty 

Residents

Salary and Benefits

Career Choices of Our Past Resident Graduates

Application and Contact Information

Greenville and the Upstate

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Greenville Health System

Other Links

Manual of Policies and Procedures for Medical Education Resident Staff

GHS House Staff and Medical Students Photo Directory