Physicians
Residency
Transitional
Year
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Goals
The Physicians Transitional Year provides a broad, flexible
year of graduate medical education to assist undecided
physicians in selecting a specialty and to offer a preparatory
year to those physicians who want one prior to entering
a specialty.
The
program offers an optimal balance of well-supervised
patient care responsibility and didactic educational
activity to enhance the resident's clinical maturity.
The physician gains experience through rotations, individualized
according to needs and interests. The clinical rotations
are educationally structured and offer intensive interaction
with attending physicians and specialty residents.
The
transitional residency is sponsored by the Departments
of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Family Medicine. The
Transitional Year Residency Committee, including the
program director and representatives of the above departments,
oversees the program.
Curriculum
and Responsibilities
The curriculum includes an assignment to the emergency
department, four months of internal medicine and one
month of ambulatory care experience. The remainder of
the year is spent on selective rotations and electives,
jointly planned by the program director and transitional
resident. Rotations are one to two months long. Experience
in almost any specialty or subspecialty is available.
Transitional
residents enjoy a status and level of responsibility
equivalent to that of specialty residents with comparable
experience and training. On each assigned service, the
transitional resident actively participates in medical
care for a patient population representing a wide range
of clinical pathology. Patients are derived from the
attending physician's practice, residents' ambulatory
clinics, emergency department admissions and referrals
from physicians throughout the state and region.
With
guidance from senior residents and the attending physician,
the resident performs a history and physical examination,
constructs a problem list, develops a plan of management,
writes orders and daily problem-oriented progress notes
and dictates a discharge summary for each assigned patient.
Clinical responsibility and experience in surgical and
technical procedures are commensurate with the resident's
level of training and background.
Transitional
residents participate actively in conferences, medical
student education, and night and weekend call schedules
on assigned services. Call averages every fifth night
and weekend day, with supervision provided by senior
specialty residents and attending physicians.
Evaluation
The transitional resident's clinical performance is
evaluated on each assigned service. Clinical evaluations,
strengths and weaknesses, and plans to correct observed
deficiencies are discussed privately by the program
director with each transitional resident at least three
times a year. Additionally, residents provide evaluations
of their rotations and the educational program to the
program director.
Summary
The PMCC Transitional Year contains an outstanding exposure
to practical and academic medicine and provides an ongoing
stimulus for the physician to assume responsibility
in patient care, while being assured of effective supervision.
This program is excellent preparation for further specialty
training at our hospital or elsewhere. If additional
training is desired at PMCC, application must be made
to the appropriate specialty residency program early
in the transitional year.
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway
Transitional Year Residency Program
1600 Carraway Boulevard
Birmingham, Alabama 35234
(205) 502-6358
transres@pmcc.net
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