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STUDENT PROFILE 
Ann Marie Patterson Third-year student, Versailles, KY. Student Life: Intramural football. "We're medical students, so we're competitive." SUPPORT USC
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SOM is leader in primary care educationThe University of South Carolina's School of Medicine is a national leader in primary care medical education, a key patient care provider for the state's citizens, and a pioneer in new technology and innovative research. Students achieved a 100 percent pass rate on national boards in 2006, and the incoming class in fall 2007 was the strongest ever academically.
The university and the school have a number of valuable partnerships in addition to Palmetto Health. The school's main facilities are located on the campus of the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Administration Medical Center. Residents also have opportunities to work at the Greenville Hospital System. Health Sciences South Carolina is a statewide collaborative between higher education and the state's major hospital systems, devoted to improving patient care and promoting research to benefit South Carolinians. State-funded Research Centers of Economic Excellence are devoted to cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, brain imaging, biomedical ethics, health services, primary health care, and -- most recently -- research to improve the independence and mobility of senior citizens through a program called SeniorSMART?. All research centers are fully funded when the university and its partners raise matching dollars. Among the cutting-edge technology available through the school are GE Healthcare's LOGIQ E portable ultrasounds, which students will use continuously during the four years of study, and a world-class Siemens 3T MRI at the McCausland Center for Brain Imaging on the Palmetto Health campus. The school is a national model for integrating the ultrasound technology into its curriculum. Ongoing research grants include those funded by the Duke Endowment, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Two recent funding announcements include $6 million from NIH to study the effect of plant materials from red grapes, ginseng and hemp on autoimmune diseases; and a $10.7 million NIH grant for colorectal research to an interdisciplinary team that includes five faculty members from the School of Medicine.
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The school's clinical departments are located at the Palmetto Health Richland campus. Departments, include Family and Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, and University Primary Care. A joint university-Palmetto Health research program, the South Carolina Cancer Center, is also located at the hospital campus.