Thank you to the next generation
Our partnerships are helping us prepare the next generation of health care professionals to serve our community through innovative educational and training programs.
In the past year, we launched the Tidelands Health Scholars program in partnership with Georgetown County School District and Horry-Georgetown Technical College, providing high-school students training and education in health care fields before they graduate.
We’ve also partnered with Horry-Georgetown Technical College to expand the college’s nursing program with a new location on the campus of Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital. The new Tidelands Health HGTC Education Center features a simulation lab and classroom space for nursing students to learn.
In addition to inspiring future nurses and physicians, our health system uses unique opportunities to fill other in-demand fields in health care. We partner with HGTC for skilled IT professionals, as the South Carolina Hospital Association highlighted this year in a special “H is for Hiring” broadcast on SCETV. And we hosted our first “Healing Hands: Career Pathways in Rehabilition” event this year, designed to inspire high-school students to pursue the in-demand rehabilitation services field.
Also new in 2025, we added a transitional year residency program, building on the success of the Tidelands Health MUSC Family Medicine Residency Program. Many residents who train here remain with our health system as practicing physicians after graduation.
Myrtle Beach native Dr. Sean Nguyen, medical director of family medicine, was one of the first family medicine residents to graduate from the program and now advises current physician residents.
“I always look at Myrtle Beach and say to myself, ‘Look at the difference you’ve made in a small community by being a provider.’ That is the greatest advice I give to resident physicians,” Dr. Nguyen said. “We put the community first and having quality care but also effective care – it makes my job easy.”
