USC School of Medicine Greenville

USC School of Medicine Greenville is a university in Greenville, SC. The school trains physicians through an integrated curriculum taught by experienced biomedical educators, with students working in the field alongside EMTs from their first week. medical school to incorporate education in nutrition, physical activity, behavior change and self-care into all four years of the curriculum. The school offers a full tuition scholarship for those committed to four years of primary care with Prisma Health, aiming to increase primary care physicians in SC. The Integrated Practice of Medicine curriculum spans all four years. In the first two years, students meet weekly in small teams of eight to nine with a clinical mentor from Prisma Health-Upstate, pairing clinical reasoning cases with clinical skills sessions covering history-taking, physical examinations and procedures. Bedside ultrasound is integrated across all four years. Third- and fourth-year courses run one to four weeks and cover quality and risk management, medical-legal issues, advanced diagnostics and lifestyle medicine. Faculty who teach IPM-1 and IPM-2 dedicate an average of five hours per week across a 33-36 week course and attend at least 80 percent of weekly sessions in person. IPM-3 and IPM-4 faculty commit two- to four-hour blocks. Faculty appointments are made through Prisma Health-Upstate departments via the academic vice chair and may extend up to four years, reviewed annually. The school also runs pre-medical pathways, including the MedEx Academy health care career exploratory program, the Galen Health Fellows program with early acceptance in junior year, and a Research Education Program supported by a five-year NIH R25 grant that prepares underrepresented students for graduate STEM programs through an eight-week summer research experience. The school is on Grove Road, about 0.2 miles from Grove Road itself and Mills Avenue, and roughly 0.3 miles from Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital, Greenville Memorial Hospital Heliport and Shriners Hospitals for Children - Greenville. Its curriculum is built around improving outcomes for underserved populations in SC, and its graduates carry that training into practice across the state.

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