Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Columbia (Sumter) Program

Program Description

The Prisma Health Tuomey Family Medicine Residency strives to create an ideal learning environment for developing future Family Medicine physicians. The program intends its graduates to continue to serve the Sumter area, its surrounding rural communities, and other South Carolina communities. We train our residents to be skilled family physicians possessing compassion, character, and balance. We create an educational environment where residents grow into highly skilled, compassionate clinicians. Through caring for our most vulnerable and underserved communities, we provide a learning environment focusing on the well-being of our faculty, residents, care team members, patients and families with a humanistic approach supporting professional development. Our faculty help create an optimal learning environment, they include: • 9 Family Physicians • Sports medicine, geriatric, and maternity care specialists • Behavioral medicine • Medical and surgical sub-specialists We emphasize full-breadth family medicine and care for the underserved. Our diverse patient population offers broad exposure to all age groups. Our partnership with Tandem Health, a federally qualified community health carter, ensures that residents will train in a community-focused practice centered on the care of the underserved. We prepare our residents to provide a leadership in patient-centered medical homes, health systems, and the towns where they will practice.

Community Setting

• Rural
• Suburban

Top 3 Program Strengths

• Hospital Medicine
• Low Resourced/Marginalized Populations
• Point of Care Ultrasound

Primary Admitting Hospital

Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital

Length of Program

3 Years

Clinic Funding

No federal or government clinic funding

Positions

	PGY-1	PGY-2	PGY-3
Offered:	PGY-1: 4	PGY-2: 4	PGY-3: 4
Filled:	PGY-1: 4	PGY-2: 4	PGY-3: 3

Has Residential Organization

Yes

Required ICU Rotations

Three months

Required General Surgery Rotations

Less than two months

Required Maternity Rotations

Two months

Level of Pregnancy Care Training Provided

At least 20 deliveries for all residents; comprehensive pregnancy care with 80 or more deliveries for a few residents.

Required Pediatrics Rotations

Three months

Offers International Rotations

No

Half Day Table (years 1-n)

	PGY-1	PGY-2	PGY-3
Half days	PGY-1: 2	PGY-2: 4	PGY-3: 5

Hospital Trips Table (years 1-n)

	PGY-1	PGY-2	PGY-3
Call from home trips to hospital	PGY-1: q4d	PGY-2: q4d	PGY-3: q4d

Night Calls Table (years 1-n)

	PGY-1	PGY-2	PGY-3
Average In hospital night calls	PGY-1: q4d	PGY-2: q4d	PGY-3: q5d
Night Float	PGY-1: No	PGY-2: No	PGY-3: No

Has Computer Documentation

Yes

Offers Rural Rotations

Yes

Has Electronic Health Records

Yes

Primary Admitting Hospital

Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital

Total Hospital Beds

300

Full Time Doctor Faculty

2

Full Time Other Faculty

1

Full Time Physicians Extender Faculty

0

Total Rotation Hospitals

1

Total Admitting Hospitals

1

Total Family Practice Centers

1

Has Federally Qualified Rotations

Yes

Base Salary and Vacation Table (years 1-n)

	PGY-1	PGY-2	PGY-3
Salary	PGY-1: $62,046	PGY-2: $62,837	PGY-3: $65,666
Weeks of Vacation	PGY-1: 4	PGY-2: 4	PGY-3: 4

Benefits

• Parking
• Meals
• Sick Leave / Personal Time
• Funding for attending conferences
• Disability Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Time off for conferences
• Liability Insurance
• AAFP Membership

Offers Fellowship

No