South Carolina Receives the 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Award Â
(May 2025) The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The South Carolina Chapter received the 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, Ultrathon Conference. Â
Ultrathon ConferenceÂ
Attendees demonstrated a significant increase in their comfort level while performing POCUS following the event.  Â
The ACP South Carolina affiliated conference is an event meant for students, residents, attendings, and faculty interested in POCUS. The morning consisted of lectures from the renowned ultrasound faculty. Topics included POCUS in the workplace, POCUS pearls from SC providers, and integrating ultrasound into curriculum and workshops. A friendly ultrasound competition took place in the afternoon. The diverse representation from across the state fostered a sense of collegiality and collaboration within the South Carolina chapter. Senior ACP members appreciated the opportunity to meet and mentor younger members. Â
Special thanks to this program’s key contributors: Â
Cara Joseph, MDÂ
Amber Nicole Stroupe, DO, FAAP, FACPÂ Â
Brittany Stovall, MD, FACPÂ
Justin Durland, MDÂ
Steve Saunders, MBBS, FACP, South Carolina Chapter, Governor Â
April Koon, South Carolina Chapter, Staff Â
2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Silver Winner
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Silver Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! Only 11 chapters received the Silver Award. The award recognizes chapters that achieve excellence in chapter management. In order to achieve the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria and seventeen Silver criteria. Criteria include such activities as undertaking efforts to increase advocacy efforts, collaborating with stakeholders to increase visibility of the ACP, holding competitions for members, providing chapter financial reports to members, having Medical Student and Resident/Fellow members on the Governor's Advisory council, retaining transitional and unpaid members, giving awards to chapter members.
We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.