The Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Grand Stand Medical Center is a three-year, ACGME accredited program with twelve residency positions per year. The program is affiliated with the University of South Carolina and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM).

Our Emergency Medicine faculty provide high-quality patient care with years of experience in emergency medicine including clinical toxicology, point-of-care ultrasound, environmental envenomation, shark attacks, and Advanced EMS training. Each is dedicated to educating and mentoring residents through didactic, clinical, and research experiences.

Grand Strand Medical Center is a 403-bed acute care hospital located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Emergency Department houses an Accredited Chest Pain Center, Advanced Primary Stroke Center, Children's Center and the busiest trauma center in South Carolina.

Grand Strand Medical Center has a state-of-the-art Simulation Center. The simulation curriculum aids residents in mastering skills in a safe and interactive environment.

Program Highlights

• Top ten percent of emergency medicine resident and faculty ACGME satisfaction surveys in the U.S.

• Outstanding procedural experience: all PGY1's  perform well over 55 intubations in the 1st year

• Ultrasound fellowship: two positions

• Toxicology consult service: marine envenomation, snake/shark bites

• Mercer and VCOM Affiliations

• Six faculty members with prior Outstanding EM Teacher Award

• Excellent research support

• Published three textbooks in Emergency Ultrasound

• Electives available in Sports Medicine (Coastal Carolina University facilities) and Global Health

• Busiest Level 1 Trauma Center in South Carolina

• Diverse patient populations with very high acuity level and over 110,000 ER visits per year

• Some of the best Times-to-Cath-Vessel-Opening for STEMI in the US

• Excellent IR Program for CVAs: time to tPA less than 30 minutes over the last three months

• EMS innovations: prehospital antibiotics for sepsis, POCUS for pre-hospital providers

• The second fastest-growing community in the US with the cost of living well below the national average

Conference schedule

Conference schedule

Wednesday

Emergency Medicine Conferences are four hours of Grand Rounds Presentations every Wednesday morning. Residents also participate in 1 hour of asynchronous learning each week in the form of self-guided reading and question  banks.

7:30am – 8:30am

Reading Group by Residency Year

8:30am – 9:30am

Resident Grand Rounds presentation

9:30am - 10:30am

Attending Grand Rounds Presentation

10:30am - 11:30am

EM Foundations/Fundamentals and Simulation lab

Each month, residents have

• Simulation Lab

• Journal Club

• Research Topics

• Scholarly Track

HCA Total Rewards:

The HCA Total Rewards program offers the following benefit options for residents and their families/dependents:

Health and welfare benefits plan:

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Wellness

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Health Care and Day Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Life and AD&D Insurance and Dependent Life Insurance

• Long-Term Disability

• Employee Assistance Program

• Voluntary Core Plus Benefits

• Auto & Home Insurance (Note: Home insurance not available in all locations)

• Legal Benefit

• Long-Term Care

• Short-Term Disability

• Voluntary Permanent Life Insurance

Retirement Benefits:

• 401(k) Plan

• Paid Time Off - 15 days of PTO per year; 5 days of Conference travel

• Consumer Discounts - Mobile access to over 125,000 discounts including phone and automobile

• In-Service Training Exam

• Hospital Laptop and Cell Phone - Equipment distributed to new residents

• State License and DEA Provided - Hospital covers the expense for physician training license and DEA

• BLS/ACLS/PALS/ATLS Training - Hospital provides annual training certificates to physicians in training

Research opportunities:

Our residents and faculty are currently involved in several research projects. Areas of expertise for our faculty include:

• Trauma

• Cardiovascular and Infectious Disease/Sepsis

• EMS

• Toxicology

• Ultrasound

• Pediatrics

Residents are required to complete one Scholarly Activity Project during their three-year training program. Dr. Scott Gutovitz is the Research Director for Emergency Medicine and spearheads this initiative. He meets with the residents individually to help tailor their interests and structure their projects. Here are some accomplishments of our residents' projects for the first two classes:

• Presentations at ACEP Scientific Assembly

• Poster presentation at SAEM Annual Meeting

• Presentation at SAEM Annual Meeting

• Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Outside Grant Funding

  • Stat Pearls publications

  • Podcasts on PoisonBoy website

Other research-related resources available to help residents include:

• GME Research Coordinator

• Access to VCOM and USC medical libraries

• HCA pilot grants (GRAD award)

• Monthly research meetings for both Department of EM and GME Research

• Support of a statistician

• Annual Resident Research Symposium for all GME program

• Research stipend available for travel/conference costs