DEMOEmergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine Physician — Coastal Lifestyle

Palmetto Coast Health · Palmetto Coast Medical Center — Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach, South CarolinaHospitalPosted 1mo ago

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Job type: Full-time
Shift: Rotating
Schedule: 1,560 clinical hours/year, self-scheduling within the group

Clinical snapshot

EMR: Epic
Patients/hr: ~1.9 pts/hr
Volume/day: ~150 patients
Shift length: Mix of 8-, 10-, and 12-hour shifts
Trauma designation: Level III Trauma Center
Pay structure: W-2 Employee+ RVU bonus
Practice model: Hospital-employed
Staffing model: Split-flow intake; staffed to the summer peak

Specialty backup

Cardiology call every night
Orthopedics call every night
Behavioral health observation unit on site
ICU on site

Life in Myrtle Beach

Life three miles from the Atlantic: golf in January, sixty miles of beach, and an off-season that gives the town back to the people who live there. South Carolina's tax treatment of retirement income is a quiet bonus your accountant will notice.

Metro population: 530k metro — among the fastest-growing on the East Coast
Cost of living: ~8% below national average
Airport access: MYR international — 15 min from the hospital

About the role

Palmetto Coast Medical Center — Myrtle Beach is a 220-bed hospital three miles from the ocean, with a 36-bed ED that swells to 55,000 visits in season and breathes back down in winter. We staff for the summer peak, which means the off-season pace is genuinely pleasant.

The ED is fully renovated (2024): split-flow intake, 6-bed resuscitation pod, bedside ultrasound on every cart, and a psychiatric observation unit that keeps behavioral health holds out of your hallway beds. Cardiology and orthopedics take call every night — this is not a transfer-everything shop.

South Carolina coast living is the quiet draw here: no state tax on the first chunk of retirement income, golf in January, and a cost of living that lets a physician family live very well on one income.