THE TRANSITIONAL
YEAR RESIDENCY
The Transitional
Year Residency Program is a rigorous 1-year training experience
designed to give our residents a solid foundation in clinical medicine
that will prepare them for any future training program. Residents
will have the advantages of training in a community hospital setting,
while being part of the larger Harvard Medical School Academic community.
Our patient
population is the highlight of our training program. Cambridge Health
Alliance serves a very diverse population, and residents enjoy the
opportunity to take care of patients from various ethnic and socio-economic
backgrounds. PGY 1 residents take primary responsibility for their
patients while being closely supervised by senior residents and
attendings.
Rotations include
inpatient medicine, critical care, ambulatory medicine, emergency
medicine and pediatrics. All residents participate in quality improvement
projects. A wide selection of electives gives our trainees the opportunity
to tailor their experience to meet individual learning needs.
Our Transitional
Residency is very closely intertwined with our Internal Medicine
Training Program. Medical and transitional residents work together
on teams, share schedules, patients, teachers and in fact the whole
training experience.
The curriculum
for each rotation emphasizes the six ACGME competencies: Patient
Care, Medical Knowledge, Practice Based Learning and Improvement,
Professionalism, Interpersonal and Communication Skills and Systems
Based Practice. Our program emphasizes frequent feedback and evaluation
so that residents are ensured to have a solid training experience.
Faculty are
dedicated to housestaff training and professional development. The
small size of the program offers the advantage of individualized
teaching and mentoring. The training experience is enhanced by small
group teaching, problem based learning, bedside teaching and didactic
lectures. Extensive hospital-based and on-line resources are available
for self-directed learning.
Our program
attracts highly dedicated candidates with excellent academic records
and diverse interests. Housestaff have a strong collegial spirit,
and lifelong friendships often develop during this intense training
experience. Graduating Transitional Year residents leave with a
wonderful sense of accomplishment, personal and professional growth,
and remain connected to us in spirit as they move on to pursue their
further careers.
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