Pre-Clerkship Curriculum
During the first two years of the program, you'll study anatomy (gross anatomy and histology), behavioral science, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology and physiology through a series of integrated courses.
Our translational and interdisciplinary curriculum takes SOMC students from the basic medical sciences in the classroom to the clinical, hands-on experience they need to be leaders in the health care profession.
During the first two years of the program, you'll study anatomy (gross anatomy and histology), behavioral science, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology and physiology through a series of integrated courses.
In years three and four you will be exposed to six core clerkship rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and surgery, before pursuing your own medical interests through electives.
This technology gives you the skills you need to make an impact in many settings, from the prominent technologically-advanced hospital to the rural primary care facility, and everywhere in between.
Roughly 20 students from each M.D. class transition to Florence to spend their third and fourth years practicing in the Pee Dee region of our state, with the same curriculum as those who stay in Columbia.
Drawing from USC’s depth in computer science and the hands-on AI experiences of clinicians and researchers at USC, we constructed a comprehensive extracurricular program designed to familiarize students with core concepts of AI and teach them the technical foundations of main AI applications in Medicine.