Transitional Year I

Adonis Lorenzana, MD
Program Director

Anne Dwyer
Residency Coordinator

The Transitional Year Program at St. John Hospital and Medical Center is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The Transitional Year is designed to provide well-balanced graduate medical education in multiple clinical disciplines. Because of the number of electives allowed, it offers a flexibility to the applicant not found in other one-year programs.

The Transitional Year is designed to fulfill the education needs of medical school graduates who:

• Have chosen a career specialty for which the respective program in graduate medical education has, as a prerequisite, one year of fundamental clinical education (i.e., ophthalmology);
• Have not yet made a career choice or specialty experience and desire a flexible, broad-based year to assist them in making that decision;
• Must have at least one year of fundamental clinical education prior to entering a career path which does not require broad clinical skills such as administrative medicine or non-clinical research.

Transitional Year residents rotate two months in General Internal Medicine, one month in Emergency Medicine, and one month in Ambulatory Medicine, and one additional month of either general Internal Medicine or Pediatrics. While rotating on these services, the TY resident rotates with categorical residents and receives the same supervision and teaching. Two more months must be taken in fundamental clinical skills disciplines (defined by the ACGME as being Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, or Pediatrics). The remaining five months are elective months and are chosen by the TY resident. They can be in any of the above rotations or in the following subspecialties: Administration, Allergy, Anesthesiology, Cardiology, Dermatology, GI, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Opthalmology, Orthopedics, Pathology, PM&R, Pulmonology, Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Radiotherapy, and Rheumatology. There is also opportunity for research. The rotation schedule is individually structure to meet each TY resident's needs. Note: Specialty-specific requirements apply, see the ACGME website. Opportunities for taking outside electives exist but require the approval of the Program Director. Details regarding electives are discussed at the time of the interview. Below is a list of the recent TY graduates, their medical schools and the residencies that followed their TY training.

Transitional Residents /Medical School/ Post SJH Training

2009-2010

Matthew Currie, MD
Rush University
Department of Opthalmology. St. Louis University Eye Institute - MO

Julie Koo, MD 
University of Michigan 
Department of Radiology - University of Pittsburgh - PA

Meredith Price, MD 
Wayne State University
Department of Dermatology - Wayne State University - MI

Michael Siegel, MD 
Wayne State University/
Department of Opthalmology, Kresge Eye Institute - WSU - MI

For more information please call the Graduate Medical Education Department (313) 343-3875, or visit us on the Web at http://stjohn.org/physicianresources.cfm

Medical Education Department
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
19251 Mack Avenue, Suite 340
Detroit, Michigan  48236