In this section:

Overview and Objectives
The Transitional Year Program
Program Directors
Beyond the Transitional Year

Transitional Year Residency Program - Overview and Objectives
 

 

OBJECTIVES
The Transitional Year Residency at Baptist Health System is designed to provide a broad-based clinical experience to medical school graduates who:

Have chosen a career specialty for which the categorical program in graduate medical education has, as a prerequisite, one year of fundamental clinical education (this education may also contain certain specific experiences for development of desired skills); or
Desire a broad-based year to assist them in making a career choice or specialty selection decision.

Transitional Year Residency Program - The Program

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The Transitional Year curriculum is planned jointly by the resident and the Program Director, based on the educational needs and career goals of the individual. Three months of internal medicine, 3 months of medicine subspecialties selected by the resident, 1 month of emergency medicine, 1 month of general surgery, and 1 month of ambulatory medicine are required. Three months of elective time complete the 12 month curriculum. Electives are available at each of our two teaching hospitals with clinical faculty representing virtually every specialty and subspecialty in the medical profession. The choices of clinical rotations include, but are not limited to:

Every effort will be made to meet the Transitional Year residents’ educational needs through individualized curriculum planning and selection of elective rotations.

An excellent program of didactic lectures and regularly scheduled conferences is a part of the Transitional Year curriculum and active participation in these conferences is expected of all residents. Extensive library facilities and computerized educational tools are available at both the Princeton Baptist Medical Center and Trinity Medical Center campuses. Call requirements will depend on the rotation to which the resident is assigned, but is at most approximately every fourth night with alternate weekends generally free of clinical responsibilities.

Transitional residents are expected to perform the same clinical duties as other PGY-1 residents at BHS, and are held to high standards of professionalism by our faculty.

Transitional Year Residency Program - Meet The Directors

Transitional Year Residency Program - Beyond The Transitional Year

Residents completing a year of training in the BHS Transitional Year Residency are expected to be clinically competent and prepared for further training in their chosen fields. Our graduates have been accepted into residencies in anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, OB/GYN, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology and rehabilitation medicine.

They have successfully completed residencies at Baptist Health System and at other prestigious academic centers such as Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins, M.D. Anderson, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Yale University. Former residents have consistently reported that their year in the BHS Transitional Year Residency prepared them well for their subsequent training programs.