Curriculum

Develop into a well-rounded family physician serving the health needs of local or international communities when you elect AnMed’s global medicine track.

Throughout your training, the program offers mentorship and support from faculty. As you prepare to advocate for and improve health outcomes for people in underserved communities around the world, you’ll dive into topics such as procedural skills, ethics, infectious disease, tropical medicine, and other areas of interest.

The international field experience portion of the track will reveal the health disparities that exist throughout the world. A unique feature of this track is that AnMed provides a $6,000 stipend for second-and third-year residents to help you with the trip cost.

Your faculty-led trip may take you to Asia, Central America, northern China, Sub-Saharan Africa, or another destination. These trips will likely inspire you to make long-term commitments to global health issues. An added benefit is you’ll make connections with other colleagues and mentors because community physicians also go along on the trips.

Focus on caring for patients in the hospital in the growing specialty of hospital medicine while developing critical knowledge and skills. This track gives you access to training and experiences beyond the existing residency curriculum and expectations. This track is for you if you want to be a full-time hospitalist after your residency.

You’ll get guidance from hospital medical faculty and learn how to work in a multidisciplinary team of nurses, care managers, specialty consultants and palliative care experts. You’ll gain knowledge and skills while participating in robust clinical rotations in the hospital setting, including ICU care and the emergency setting. You will also get an introduction to billing and coding for hospital medicine.
 

Learn how to use evidence-based medicine to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic diseases in the lifestyle medicine track. This track offers training you won’t find in most medical schools or residency programs. AnMed is uniquely qualified to teach residents lifestyle medicine as an American Board of Lifestyle Medicine-approved site. Our board-certified lifestyle medicine physician is a faculty member and will act as your mentor.

You can expect thorough, individualized attention that helps you understand how lifestyles affect patient health. This track can help you become skilled at integrating therapeutic lifestyle interventions into your future practice. You’ll grow your knowledge and competency in coaching patients about:

• Diet and nutrition
• Physical activity
• Sleep and stress management
• Social connectivity and support

As a physician trained in lifestyle medicine, you’ll educate and motivate patients to make lifestyle changes, improve their overall health outcomes, and lower healthcare spending.

Get more exposure to sports medicine beyond the family medicine residency core curriculum experience in the sports medicine track. If you’re considering a sports medicine fellowship or significant sporting event coverage in your future practice, this track will help you develop knowledge, clinical skills, and experience to deliver high-quality musculoskeletal and sports care for athletes.

Your curriculum has six-and-a-half months of electives and three to four months in one focused area. By the end of your residency, you’ll have clinical exposure to techniques such as injections, casting, splinting, and ultrasound (point of care).

Additional sports medicine track activities and experiences include:

• Event coverage with the local high school teams and team physician responsibilities for Anderson University and Clemson University
• Musculoskeletal interventional ultrasound training
• Working with a local orthopedic group practice
• Attendance at sports medicine resident meetings
• Mentorship from fellowship-trained sports medicine faculty and orthopedic surgeons

Residents who complete this track are competitive for AnMed’s Sports Medicine Fellowship or other sports medicine fellowship positions throughout the United States.
 

Consider the women's health track if you’re interested in women’s gynecologic and maternity care needs and deliveries. The family medicine residency emphasizes well-woman care. Still, you can further concentrate your training and tailor your skills in this track.

The clinical setting allows you to increase your women’s health outpatient skills and gynecologic and obstetric procedural skills such as colposcopy and endometrial biopsy. You’ll also develop skills in performing office-based ultrasounds.

AnMed’s practicing family medicine physicians and OB-GYN specialists will train you in each area. You’ll have a faculty advisor to mentor you, help you choose electives, and find a future practice.