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TYR Curriculum

TY residents

The Transitional Year Residency curriculum at Nazareth Hospital is a well-designed program with exposure to a diverse patient population with wide range of health issues. Residents develop fundamental clinical skills through patient care experiences rotating in both inpatient and outpatient settings through various disciplines such as general internal medicine, general surgery, emergency medicine, critical care, family medicine clinic and palliative care and hospice.

Residents can choose electives in various subspecialties of the medicine of their choice. The residents will also participate in various other educational activities such as grand rounds, journal clubs, ethics rounds, didactic lectures, tumor board, morning reports, research and scholarly activity to broaden their experience. 

Clinical Rotations

The clinical curriculum consists of 13 blocks with each block being four weeks long and are as follows:

  • 3 blocks of general internal medicine
  • 1 block of ICU
  • 1 block of emergency medicine
  • 1 block of general surgery
  • 1 block of night float in general internal medicine and ICU
  • 1 block of vacation
  • 1 block of ambulatory medicine
  • ½ block research elective
  • 3 and half blocks of electives that residents can choose from the following specialties: anesthesiology, nephrology, radiology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, hematology and oncology, neurology, cardiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pulmonary, intervention radiology, radiation oncology, palliative care and hospice.

Research

Residents are required to participate in a quality improvement project during their training. Residents will meet with their program director and faculty early on in their training to choose a project based on their interest. Residents will have two weeks dedicated towards a research elective to help with their data collection and analysis. Program director and faculty will provide guidance every step of the way to every resident to ensure residents successfully complete the project. Our prior residents QI project abstract was accepted for presentation at the American College of Physicians National Conference.

Our Program Graduates

Residents who graduated from our program were accepted to pursue advanced programs in anesthesia, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, dermatology, radiology and also in internal medicine residency.