THE
TRANSITIONAL YEAR INTERNSHIP
The Transitional Year
Internship Program is a rigorous 1-year training experience designed to give
you a solid foundation in clinical medicine that will prepare you for any
residency program. You will have the advantages of training in a community
hospital setting while being part of the larger Harvard Medical School community.
Our patient
population is the highlight of our training program. Cambridge Health
Alliance serves a large immigrant population and interns enjoy the
opportunity to take care of patients from diverse ethnic and socio-economic
backgrounds. You will take primary responsibility for your patients
while being closely supervised by senior residents and attendings.
Rotations include inpatient
medicine, critical care, ambulatory medicine, emergency medicine and pediatrics.
All interns participate in quality improvement projects. A wide selection of
electives offered at any of the area teaching hospitals gives you the
opportunity to tailor your training to meet your individual learning needs.
Our Transitional
Internship is very closely intertwined with our Internal Medicine
Training Program. Medical and transitional interns 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 you 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. Your
training experience will be 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 develop
during this intense training experience. Graduating Transitional Year interns
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
residency training.
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