Florence Family Medicine Curriculum
The Family Medicine Residency Program at MUSC Health Florence Medical Center will have 3 core rotations dedicated to Family Medicine outpatient clinic, with an opportunity to focus on Family Medicine and procedure experience. Electives are available for inpatient with Family Medicine attendings only and 1-1 teaching. The program also offers a Rheumatology elective with Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, with an emphasis on diabetes care. The program also includes experience with a robust OB/GYN practice with more than 900 deliveries annually and a newborn nursery.
Florence Family Medicine
Find us in ERAS as: Medical University of South Carolina Regional Network (Florence) Program - Accreditation ID: 1204500004
Rotations
Foundational Rotations
- Behavioral Health & Psychiatry
- Cardiac Critical Care Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine Practice
- Hospital Medicine Wards
- Geriatrics
- Medical Intensive Care Unit
- Newborn Nursery
- Cardiology Clinic
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Orthopedic surgery
- Sports Medicine
- Ambulatory Pediatrics
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Pediatric Inpatient
- Addiction Medicine
- Rural Primary Care
- General Surgery
Electives
- Nephrology
- Palliative care /Hospice
- Radiology
- Sleep Medicine
- PM&R
- Rheumatology
- Podiatry
- Wound Care
- Infectious Disease
- Urology
- Neurology
- Endocrinology
- Hematology / Oncology
Sample Resident 3-year Schedule
Conferences & Educational Activities
Opportunities to engage in additional learning experiences designed to focus on a series of educational topics.
Conferences
- American Academy of Family Physicians Annual Conference
- FMX (Family Medicine Xchange)
- Student National Medical Association’s Annual Medical Education Conference
- Global Health Summit – AAFP
Educational Activities
- Every resident will have time dedicated to QI Projects that are required.
- Residents will collaborate with their advisor to develop and present at least 3 didactic lectures in their senior years.
Board Review
Resident led conferences using clinical pearls and board style questions these interactive sessions aim to regularly assess and improve medical knowledge at all levels, supervised by a faculty. Using the AAFP Family Medicine Board Review Resources, these sessions allow for residents and faculty to help each other prepare for the certifying/recertifying examinations and maintenance of certification (MOC) in family medicine.
Didactics / Core Topics in Medicine
This 18-month curriculum is designed to cover the core topics in family medicine and intentionally uses repetition to allow learners to interact with the content at the introductory and more advanced levels and the opportunity to revisit and consolidate knowledge as they grow in clinical experiences and exposure. This series is run primarily by the core faculty and augments learning in the clinical setting (additional time spent on conditions that are important but less commonly seen in the clinical setting).
Grand Rounds
This series is held weekly and initially will be in conjunction with the MUSC Department of Family Medicine at Charleston. Topics and speakers are selected to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in hospital medicine. This will only be attended during inpatient months.
Morning Report
Interactive case- based discussion of unique and or challenging cases to develop clinical reasoning and decision making. Cases are either based at Florence Medical Center or Charleston MUSC but always have a faculty member from Florence to facilitate the discussion in-person.
Journal Club & Clinical Decision Making
This series looks at new and seminal articles relevant to the practice of family medicine. The presentations are focused on appraisal of the medical evidence and the ramifications for practice.
Quality Clinical Care Review Conferences
The goals is to: (1) improve the quality and safety of our patient care by learning from past performance, adverse events, errors, and near misses, (2) identify and suggest practice and systems improvements to prevent similar future episodes, and (3) educate all family medicine intern physicians via an experiential opportunity of reviewing a real-life Moffitt case with a faculty-supervised, structured root cause analysis, thereby enhancing our culture of safety within our residency program, department, and institution.
Wellness Wednesdays
This resident guided series is held monthly with lunch provided are a chance to enjoy food and time together with content and activities around all aspects of wellbeing including.
Residents Forum
Resident led forum to discuss their positive as well as negative aspects of their daily experiences in the program. It’s a protected time to hear their thoughts and voice for the betterment of the program and to improve residents’ wellbeing.
Simulations
Done in our conference room for residents to gain skills in procedures such as suturing, skin biopsies, joint injections, and Nexplanon IUD insertions and removals.
POCUS
Training in performing bedside ultrasound in both the hospital and clinic to help facilitate specific diagnoses or aid in arthrocentesis.
Longitudinal Curricular Threads
Our longitudinal curricular threads incorporate MUSC Health expertise and local and national resources with fundamental content with the aim to equip residents with a strong understanding of health systems science.
