Transitional Year Residency Program

The Transitional Year is designed for residents who desire a broad clinical experience to prepare them for a career in a specialty field. Specialties that may require a first year of training include anesthesiology, radiology, radiation oncology, ophthalmology, dermatology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and emergency medicine.

• Program Description
• Curriculum
• Benefits & Salary
• Application Process
• Preparing for your Interview
• Meet the Faculty
• Meet the Residents
• Program Graduates

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The schedule reflects the necessary flexibility needed to train interns bound for these diverse specialties, with three full months of elective time. Rotations offer substantial autonomy in patient care with ample opportunities for procedures, an extremely broad case mix and opportunities for medical research.

The program offers all of the opportunities of a major academic center – robust medical research, Level 1 trauma care, multiple transplant services, full-spectrum tertiary care – all in the setting of a collegial, highly efficient private hospital.

The Transitional Year has sponsor affiliation with the internal medicine and surgery residencies at the University of Utah School of Medicine. In addition to the three months of elective time, the year consists of rotations in internal medicine, surgery, intensive care, emergency medicine, and ambulatory medicine.

There are four general medicine ward teams. Each team has a teaching attending from the faculty of the Department of Medicine as well as a supervising hospitalist physician and a single subspecialty attending. Teams consist of a supervising resident, two interns and medical students. There is an admission cap of five patients per intern on call, after which all patients are admitted to non-teaching services.

The surgery service consists of three teams, each of which covers general surgery, trauma and transplant cases. Each team is supervised by a faculty member from the Department of Surgery and consists of a supervising resident, four junior residents and medical students.

Both medicine and surgery teams care for patients on ward floors and in the open medical/surgical Intensive Care Unit.

Transitional residents may opt for one of two experiences in critical care. The coronary care ICU team is supervised by faculty cardiologists from the cardiovascular department. The Shock-Trauma ICU team is supervised by faculty from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine.

The Intermountain Medical Center Hospital emergency room will have over 50,000 patient visits annually and a high level of acuity and is staffed by full-time emergency medicine attending physicians.

Intermountain Medical Center has world-class support personnel and associated resources. The extremely high efficiency and comprehensive scope of services result in a virtual absence of non-physician tasks for residents.

An international leader in using computers to improve health care, since the 1950s LDS Hospital researchers have used computers to enhance clinical decision-making. The medical information system has been featured in a special article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM 338(4):232,1998), documenting improved patient outcomes and lower costs. The system can be accessed from outside the hospital through a secure logon connection. This system will continue and be expanded and improved at Intermountain Medical Center.

The Transitional Year was founded in 1983. It has full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and has never had an adverse accreditation event.