In July, 2001, the USC School of Medicine opened its third Rural Primary Care Education Project center in Bennettsville in Marlboro County in northeast SC. The Project is a partnership between the School of Medicine, the local community, and CareSouth Carolina, a community health center. The Education Center is located at the CareSouth Bennettsville Center where students in their third year family medicine clerkship can train with two board-certified family medicine physicians. Dr. Haynes Cain has practiced family medicine in Bennettsville since the mid 1970’s and joined CareSouth in 2004.  Dr. Scott Anders came to Bennettsville in 2000 and is now the medical director for CareSouth’s eight medical centers in the Pee Dee.  Students can also train with Dr. Travis Novinger at his Cheraw practice.  Dr. Novinger is a graduate of the USC School of Medicine.

The Education Director at the CareSouth Bennettsville Center coordinates medical student training as well as a variety of community health programs that have been developed in partnership with community stake holders.  

Students who train at the Bennettsville Center live in a furnished home in Bennettsville during their stay.  This enables students to more fully experience life in a rural community. Contact the Education Director, Andy Kurtzman, MPA, at 999 Cheraw Highway, Bennettsville, SC 29512, 843-479-1350, akurtzman@bellsouth.net, for further information.

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