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Training

Clinical Curriculum

Intern Year

PGY1 curriculum is the same as categorical curriculum to promote integration in the program and build solid clinical foundation.

Second Year

  • General Pediatrics Inpatient Wards (1 block)
  • Pediatric ICU (1 block)
  • Neonatal ICU (1 block)
  • General Pediatrics Wards Night Shift (0.5 block)
  • Emergency Medicine (1 block)
  • Elective (3 blocks)
  • Adolescent Medicine (1 block)
  • Ambulatory Primary Care Rotation (1 block)
  • Rural Primary Care Rotation (1 block)
  • MUSC Children's Care Northwoods (1.5 blocks)
  • Perinatal Care (0.5 block)
  • Newborn Nursery (0.5 block)

** Differs from Categorical Curriculum by omitting: 1 block PICU, 0.5 block Heme/Onc/NBN nights, 2 Elective blocks to be able to add perinatal care and Ambulatory/Rural Primary Care rotations

Third Year

  • General Pediatrics Inpatient Wards (1 block)
  • Pediatric ICU (1 block)
  • Mental Health (1 block)
  • General Pediatrics Wards Night Shift (0.5 block)
  • MUSC Children's Care Northwoods (1.5 blocks)
  • Ambulatory Primary Care Rotation (2 blocks)
  • Elective (4.5 blocks)
  • NICU Neonatal Stabilization Team (ARC) (0.5 blocks)
  • Newborn Nursery (0.5 Block)
  • Perinatal Care (0.5 Block)

** Differs from Categorical Curriculum by omitting: 0.5 block HemOnc/Cards Nights, 1 block Emergency Medicine, 0.5 block General Pediatrics Inpatient Wards; 1 block resident Primary Care Clinic to be able to add Perinatal Care, Newborn Nursery, and Ambulatory Primary Care rotations.

Non-clinical Curriculum

Primary Care residents participate fully in the categorical residency’s core didactics, including Morning Report and Academic Half Day. On top of that, they benefit from a tailored curriculum designed specifically for primary care.

Each quarter, residents take part in a journal club and an experiential learning activity. Past activities have included visiting an outpatient psychiatric day treatment program for children, shadowing an audiologist, observing early intervention evaluations, touring school-based health clinics, and exploring MUSC’s Center for Telehealth.

Residents also gain hands-on training in a primary care–focused skill such as second-tier autism screening with the RITA-T, Nexplanon insertion, circumcisions or other procedures that broaden their clinical toolkit.

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