Goals of the Fellowship

Goals of this fellowship are to:

• Offer an outstanding, clinically-focused inpatient training experience
• Provide leadership and academic opportunities
• Support QI and research initiatives
• Encourage maintenance and development of relevant family medicine-centered skills
• Enhance job marketability of our graduates 

The above is accomplished via the following five key components of the fellowship: 

1. Hospitalist training concentrated on inpatient adult medicine, working primarily with the SIPS team and focusing on the SHM Core Competencies.
2. Subspecialty rotations and intensives pertinent to inpatient practice, including cardiology, pulmonology, critical care, nephrology, neurology and palliative care. 
3. Leadership and academic role with the Spartanburg family medicine residents, educating residents and medical students via case presentations, didactics and as an attending on the inpatient teaching service. 
4. Completion, presentation and, if applicable, publication of a longitudinal research, quality, safety, guideline or development project. 
5. Accommodating and encouraging fellows, should they have an interest in maintaining a skill specific to family medicine training, such as inpatient pediatric care.