The Hospital
Oconee Medical Center is the largest hospital in the nation to host a rural-track family medicine residency program. It is located in the northwestern corner of South Carolina and is 0.3 miles from the family medicine outpatient center.
The hospital provides services for all specialties, and features a women's center, outpatient surgical center, emergency center, heart care center, wellness center, respiratory care, pain clinic, occupational health, and physical therapy. A new 155-bed patient tower is now under construction and scheduled to open in March 2009.
OMC is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and is well equipped as a teaching hospital. There are numerous medical staff who volunteer for resident teaching. Residents enjoy a congenial relationship with these clinical faculty who participate in resident education.
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The Family Medicine Center
Seneca Medical Associates houses the family medicine program office and the family medicine outpatient center. Each resident is expected to provide continuity of care for his or her own panel of patient/families from all socioeconomic levels.
Residents average three half-days per week in the family medicine center in the second year, and four half-days per week in the third year.
Both the hospital and the center training sites have enthusiastic medical staff dedicated to quality patient care and energized for medical education.
The center is a fully functioning rural group practice. The six family medicine faculty are all board certified in family medicine and experienced in providing rural health care. The learning experiences provide opportunities for diagnostic and preventive care and health maintenance. Within the center there are 20 exam rooms and 2 additional procedure rooms. It has the largest full service laboratory in the area and does most of the laboratory tests needed to diagnose and treat the practice population.
Our program focuses on procedural skills, practice management and obstetrics in rural family medicine. An emphasis is also placed on developing personal confidence and interpersonal relationships with local specialty faculty.
- Colposcopy
- Ultrasound (abdominal, pelvic, vascular & obstetric)
- Cryosurgery and minor surgery
- Circumcision (newborn)
- Vasectomy
- EGD, colon and sigmoidoscopy
- Bone densitometry
- Holter monitoring (24hr)
- Pulmonary function testing
- Audiometry
- Routine lab and x-rays