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Training

The Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina follows a "research-focused" approach. The two-year fellowship consists of 26 total units (four weeks each), with one unit of vacation each year (2 total). The remaining 24 units are broken down as follows.

The eight Core Clinical Rotations occur in four-week blocks, similar to what a candidate may have experienced in residency.

The eight Systems and Scholarship units and eight Individualized Curriculum units are longitudinal units.

Core Clinical Rotations (8 units)

Hospital Medicine – which includes components of complex care, and consultation with co-management of surgical and subspecialty patients (4 units)

PICU/Intermediate Care – includes experiences in the care and stabilization of the critically ill child (1 unit)

Newborn Nursery/Level II Nursery – includes experiences in the care and stabilization of the newborn (1 unit)

Community Experience (1 unit)

Elective - (may include any of the listed electives but others options not listed are available; 1 unit)

  • Level I or Level II Newborn Care
  • Internal Medicine (for Med-Peds trainees) Transitions in care
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Palliative Care
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Sedation
  • many others

Systems & Scholarship (8 units)

MUSC meets these requirements through fellow engagement in:

Masters Degree Program (see drop-down on left)

Monthly fellows’ seminars

Twice-monthly Division “Research in Progress” meetings with all faculty and fellows

Quarterly fellow scholarship oversight committee meetings (SOC’s)

Integrated didactic educational curriculum

Typically, fellows choose an area of focus for a research or QI project, working with the program director and faculty mentors at MUSC.

The scholarship training of the program meets all of the developing PHM certification expectations, including training in Improvement Science, Clinical & Translational Research, Medical Education, Leadership, Practice Management, Patient Safety, and Advocacy.

Individualized Curriculum (8 units)

Because we are a research-oriented fellowship, at MUSC these units are typically longitudinal and are met by the fellow’s research project and MPH program completion. Second year fellows are able to add additional (elective) clinical units depending on how their fellowship project and MPH course work are proceeding.

Consistent with our long-standing mission of producing academic pediatric hospitalists, candidates complete a two-year Masters of Clinical Research, offered through our College of Graduate Studies. The tuition for the degree is paid for by the fellowship.

Learn more about the MSCR at MUSC.

The community pediatric hospitalist rotation for the MUSC PHM fellows occurs at the AnMed Health Women and Children’s campus in Anderson, South Carolina. AnMed serves as a clinical affiliate, where selected third and fourth year medical students complete their clinical training.

The rotation at AnMed provides a unique opportunity for the MUSC PHM fellows to experience a true community hospital, distant from tertiary medical centers, that still has substantial volume of general pediatric inpatients, a busy newborn nursery, along with appropriate emergency department consultation.

The pediatric hospitalist group with whom MUSC PHM fellows work are themselves faculty at the University of South Carolina, with their main department located at Prisma Health’s Children’s Hospital – Upstate. The AnMed site has many learners at the medical student and resident level, but the faculty are excited to have the opportunity to work with seasoned pediatric hospital medicine fellows.

Housing is provided nearby, and fellows are encouraged to participate in hospital-based committees as well as community activities sponsored by the hospital, as opportunities present themselves, and as suggested by the AnMed faculty.

Pediatric Hospitalist Program
AnMed Health Women's and Children's Hospital
2000 East Greenville Street
Anderson, SC 29621