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Published on March 15, 2024

Eight graduating physicians announced as next class of residents at Tidelands Health during national ‘Match Day’

Vacationers aren’t the only ones eager to come to Myrtle Beach this summer.

Eight graduating physicians from across the country learned during the national “Match Day” program Friday that they will join the Tidelands Health MUSC Family Medicine Residency Program in June. The physician residents will spend three years in the residency program, which is designed to attract more family medicine providers to the Grand Strand.

Thousands of residency applicants eagerly await “Match Day” when the National Resident Matching Program announces where applicants will further their medical training. Students in their final year of medical school apply to residency programs and go through an interview process, with the applicants and the programs confidentially ranking each other. The National Resident Matching Program then uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to match applicants with residency programs. The results are announced on “Match Day” when the resident applicants and residency programs learn their matches.

For Match Day on Friday, Tidelands Health physicians, faculty and leaders gathered at the residency program’s headquarters at Tidelands Health Medical Park at Holmestown Road for the much-anticipated announcement of the next class of residents.

“Match Day always marks a special moment not only for the applicants but also for Tidelands Health,” residency program director Dr. Mike Malone said. “We are eager to welcome these new physicians to our health system and the Myrtle Beach area this summer.”

The next class of residents: Michael Byrnes Jr., Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine; Cassandra Hafford, Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific; Sarah Kampiyil, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine; Caleb Smith, Ross University School of Medicine; Hannah Sprinkle, Campbell University Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine; Christopher Thompson, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine; Brenden Truman, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU and Andrew Watkins, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine – Virginia campus.

During their residency, physicians receive robust clinical and leadership training that enables them to become transformational health care leaders.

Tidelands Health created the residency program in 2017 to help meet the growing need for family medicine providers along the Grand Strand. The residency program is part of the health system’s multi-pronged strategy through its McRoy and Jo Skipper Initiative for Learning and Teaching to invest in and help develop future health care professionals and leaders to serve the fast-growing region. After completing the residency program, many family medicine physicians have stayed with Tidelands Health and are seeing patients throughout the region.

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Tidelands Health, in collaboration with MUSC Health, is the region’s largest health care provider, serving the Carolinas at four hospitals and more than 70 outpatient locations. More than 2,500 employee, physician and volunteer partners work side by side with our communities to transform the health of our region – promoting wellness, preventing illness, encouraging recovery and restoring health.