FACT SHEET
Palmetto Health
University of South Carolina
Pediatric Resident Training Program
 We remain one of the top pediatric programs in the country regarding the board pass rate. Our
overall pass rate since 2000 is 96% placing us in the top 10% of all civilian pediatric residencies for
the past 15 years. The national average is 80%. Over the past 5 years we are at 98%. We believe this
illustrates our commitment to resident education and is a reflection of our outstanding teaching
faculty.
 Traditionally, approximately 2/3 of our graduating residents enter private practice and 1/3 enter
fellowship training. In the last 5 years, our graduates entered fellowships in Cardiology at MUSC;
Nephrology at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City and Emory University; Neonatology at Loyola
University Medical Center, University of Kentucky, University of Utah and Medical College of
Georgia; Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt and UAB; Pulmonology at Vanderbilt;
Allergy/Immunology at Vanderbilt; Hospitalist at Wake Forest; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at
Rainbow Babies Children’s Hospital, MUSC and UAB; Pediatric Endocrinology at the Oregon Health &
Science University; Critical Care at the University of Mississippi and University of California;
Developmental and Behavioral at MUSC and the University of Louisville.
 We are very proud of the emphasis placed on teaching at our program and this is regularly
acknowledged by our medical students. Students consistently nominate our faculty members for the
“Faculty Teacher of the Year” awards. One of our faculty members has won our most prestigious
teaching award, the O’Neill Barrett Award, multiple times. The Department of Pediatrics as a whole
has received the highest teaching average score relative to all other clinical rotations from the
medical students 20 out of the past 22 years. Additionally, our senior residents are frequently
nominated as “Resident Teacher of the Year” by the USC School of Medicine students. Recently,
data results show that an overall excellent rating average in pediatric clinical rotations by medical
students, across the United States, was 52%. Impressively, USC School of Medicine’s Department of
Pediatrics average was 92%. At our last LCME visit, our school received the maximum accreditation
of 9 years.
 In 1996, 2003 and 2008 we received full accreditation from the Pediatric Review Committee of the
ACGME and are pleased to report that we had no citations or concerns from our most recent site
visit.
 In addition to a CME stipend, the department sponsors all third year residents to attend the State
AAP meeting held annually at the beach or in the mountains where our residents present posters on
their quality improvement projects or research.
 Palmetto Health and the USC School of Medicine sponsor eleven residency training programs and 10
fellowship programs.
 We have successfully filled through the match twenty one consecutive years.
 Residents complete a Practice Management curriculum in part tied to their continuity experience in
private practice offices to better prepare them for the business aspects of medicine.
 Our residents participate extensively in child advocacy. The advocacy program, directed by the
resident Advocacy Committee, led to the establishment of a state resident AAP section and to the
election of one of our residents to the executive AAP board. Other advocacy efforts have resulted in
the establishment of an asthma support group and to resident involvement in numerous activities
such as children’s camps and South Carolina Safe Kids, a national childhood injury prevention
coalition.
 In 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2014 one of our third-year residents was elected District
Coordinator for the American Academy of Pediatrics and another was one of 20 residents selected
from across the nation to attend the Resident Physician Leadership Symposium sponsored by the C.
Everett Koop Institute. Residents have served as program delegates, state representatives, and
national representatives for the AAP. Palmetto Health/USC residents have served as Chair of the
resident section of the SC State Chapter of the AAP.
 In 2003 and 2005, one of our residents was a recipient of the AMA Foundation Leadership Award.
They are two of a small group of pediatric residents in the country to receive this prestigious
recognition in recent years. We believe this also reflects the excellence of our residents as child
advocates and leaders.
 A resident in our 2009 graduating class was the recipient of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association’s
New Century Scholar Award which is designed to promote careers in academic medicine for
underrepresented minority residents. She also went on to receive the Palmetto Health Resident of
the Year Award.
 We are extremely proud of our technologically advanced free standing children’s hospital. This has
allowed us to fully integrate all pediatric services in a kid and family friendly environment.
 One of our faculty members, James Stallworth, M.D., was honored with the Robert Glaser AOA
National Teaching Award. He was the only pediatrician and one of only 2 MD’s to receive this
illustrious award in 2010.
 In 2015 one of our interns was the recipient of the Resident Teacher of the Year award given by the
USC School of Medicine class of 2016.
 In 2015 one of our 3rd year residents was selected by the Palmetto Health Board of Trustees as the
Palmetto Health Resident of the Year.