Emergency Medicine clerkships provide a wide variety of clinical settings with exposure to adult and pediatric populations. Students are introduced to the principles of acute care medicine and will encounter a wide range of patients, presenting complaints and levels of acuity. Active management and participation in patient care are expected in the supervised setting.

• Four-week EM Acting Internship for fourth-year students is available to visiting students June through October
• The month of May is limited to USC School of Medicine Greenville students only.
• Shifts are nine hours in length and include equitable combinations of weekends, days, evenings and nights.
• Rotations include experiences at Greenville Memorial, Greer Memorial, and North Greenville as well as in our pediatric emergency department.
• Final assessment grade based on 70% clinical evaluation, 10% patient presentation and 20% NBME Emergency Medicine shelf exam score.

• Orientation
• Didactic classroom learning
• Bedside teaching
• Several sessions of procedural skills and simulated patient scenarios in our state-of-the-art Simulation Center

• Accommodations may be made for visiting students to interview for our Emergency Medicine Residency Program during the rotation.
• All applications must use the Visiting Student Application Service
  • USMLE Step 1 or Step 2 score (no minimum cut off). COMLEX not accepted as a substitute.
  • Letter of intent addressing interest in Prisma Health EM (up to 300 words). This is not a “personal statement” of why you want to go into EM such that you include with a residency application. It is a letter of intent as to why you want to be here, at Prisma Health-Upstate.

• EM M3 two week core rotation
• EM M3 two week Pediatric Focus elective
• EM M4 two week elective
• EM M4 two week Pediatric elective
• EM M4 two week Wilderness Medicine elective
• EM M4 four week Acting Internship
• EM M4 two week Urgent Care elective
• EM M4 four week Ultrasound elective
• EM M4 four week Prehospital elective
• EM M4 four week Rural Medicine elective
• EM M4 four week Interdisciplinary elective
• Greenville Free Medical Clinic elective

Housing not provided, but the Office of Student Affairs at the USC School of Medicine Greenville can suggest housing options. Visit, https://www.sc.edu

Thank you for visiting and please do not hesitate to reach out for more information.

The Department of Emergency Medicine provides specialty advisors, who are available to meet with students interested in pursuing a career in Emergency Medicine. These faculties are knowledgeable about the current Emergency Medicine match landscape and can advise students through the EM match process, from application to interviews to ranking. To schedule an appointment, please contact the clerkship coordinator Jess Marke, at Jessica.Marke@prismahealth.org or (864) 455-6341. Specialty advisors are:

• Dr. Stephanie Bailey (sports medicine)
• Dr. Tom Blackwell (EMS)
• Dr. Page Bridges
• Dr. Ryan Duhe
• Dr. Melissa Janse
• Dr. Zach Burroughs (pediatric EM)
• Dr. Cami Pfennig
• Dr. Mark Pittman
• Dr. Amy Ramsay

Melissa C. Janse, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Director of Undergraduate Medical Education
Clerkship Director
Melissa.Janse@PrismaHealth.org

Page Bridges, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Assistant Clerkship Director
Page.Bridges@PrismaHealth.org

Zachary Burroughs, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Assistant Clerkship Director
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Zach.Burroughs@PrismaHealth.org

Ryan Duhe, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Assistant Clerkship Director
Ryan.Duhe@PrismaHealth.org

Jess Marke
Clerkship Coordinator
Jessica.Marke@PrismaHealth.org