The UPMC Altoona Transitional Year program uses a holistic process to choose residents with diverse backgrounds. The program provides individual career guidance and personalized, goal-oriented education in a diverse and accepting atmosphere. Residents are prepared to enter a PGY-2 year of training in a specific specialty or an alternate medical career by engaging them in a broad-based program of graduate medical education in multiple clinical disciplines.
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- Prepare interns for specialty residency training by providing a one-year foundation in fundamental clinical skills while immersing the trainees in our patient-centered culture and allowing them to experience the values of our sponsoring family medicine residency.
- Residents are selected via a holistic review process that values diversity. This review process identifies candidates' diverse experiences, their academic credentials, desire to excel in their chosen specialty and evidence of their understanding of the importance of primary care to the health care system.
- Residents may matriculate from a Liaison Committe on Medical Education (LCME), or Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) accredited medical school. Designated Osteopathic residents will fulfill ACGME Osteopathic Recognition requirements. Some residents may be uncertain of their specialty and the residency has the flexibility to help them discern future career direction. It is hoped that some trainees may choose to practice at UPMC Altoona at some point in their future careers or introduce fellow specialty physicians to our medical community.