Transitional Year

56-45 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355

Contact the Program

Phone (718) 670-1477
Fax (718) 460-1352
Email vmv9002@nyp.org

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About the Program

The objective of the transitional year is to provide a well-balanced program of graduate medical education in multiple clinical disciplines designed to facilitate the choice of and/or preparation for a specific specialty. There are twelve positions.

On-Call

• Transitional Year residents rotating through Medicine and Surgery participate in the same on-call schedule as the categorical and preliminary PGY 1's in both disciplines:
• Medicine: Every 4th night until 9 pm except on Fridays - call is overnight until 10 am, plus 2 weeks of night float assigned during one of their block rotations.    
  Surgery:  TY residents have 2 - 3 calls per month plus 2 weeks of night float assigned during one of their block rotations.
• All programs are in compliance with NYSDOH 405 regulations which require that residents not exceed an average of 80 hours of work time per week over one month.
• Elective Rotations in non-accredited programs do not require residents to be on-call. Duty hours do not exceed a normal workweek of 40 hours in these rotations.

Program Director, Anthony A. Somogyi, M.D.

Application

Applications for the Transitional Year Residency Program are accepted through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service). For additional information on ERAS, access their website at: www.aamc.org/eras.

Candidates are evaluated by review of their academic performance, letters of recommendation and personal interview by the Program Director. Selection is conducted via the National Residency Matching Program. Our NRMP Program Code #: 1822999PO

The Transitional Year Residency Program at New York Hospital Queens accepts 12 residents into the program each year.

Requirements

The New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens offers an ACGME accredited Transitional Program to fulfill the educational needs of medical school graduates who:

• have chosen a career specialty for which the respective program in graduate medical education has, as a prerequisite, 1 year of fundamental clinical education, which 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; or
• are planning to serve in organizations such as the public health service or on active duty in the military as general medical officers or primary flight/undersea medicine physicians prior to completing a program in graduate medical education; or
• desire or need to acquire at least 1 year of fundamental clinical education to enter a career path that does not require broad clinical skills, such as administrative medicine or nonclincial research.

More about the Program

• Curriculum 
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