(NRMP #1903999 P0)

Curriculum
Our TY program is sponsored by the Internal Medicine, General Surgery, and Radiology residency programs. The TY curriculum is built on the framework of clinical rotations in each of these specialties, supplemented by available electives in a variety of sub-specialties.

The experience of each TY resident is individualized, with consideration of personal and professional educational needs and goals. The TY curriculum is structured to meet all ACGME requirements for education in fundamental clinical skills and for exposure to ambulatory practice settings. Electives are available at each of our two teaching hospitals with clinical faculty representing a broad spectrum of specialty (and subspecialty) practices.

Lectures
A didactic series including Internal Medicine and sub-specialty Lectures, Case Discussions, Morning Report, Board Review sessions and Morbidity and Mortality conferences as well as other didactic conferences is an integral part of the Transitional Year curriculum, and attendance and active participation is required of TY residents. Excellent library facilities and computerized educational tools are available at both the Princeton Baptist and Grandview Medical Center campuses. Transitional Year residents are expected to assume the same patient care and educational responsibilities, to perform the same clinical duties and are held to the same high standards of professionalism by faculty as the categorical PGY-1 residents at BBH. This is a program in which you can be challenged, where learning “how and why” will enable you to become the very best physician you can be, and will prepare you well for your future in medicine, whatever direction it is to take.

Beyond the Transitional Year

Residents completing their training in the BBH Transitional Year program are expected to be clinically competent and appropriately confident in their abilities as they enter future specialty training. Over the years, our graduates have gone on to demonstrate their clinical skills and to validate the effectiveness of their training at BBH with strong performances in their respective terminal residency programs. Former BBH residents who have completed subsequent specialty training at academic medical centers across the country have consistently reported that their time in the BBH Transitional Year Residency prepared them very well for the demands and expectations of those programs..