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.