File #: 999-35-00-083

Sponsor:  New York Medical College

Chairman
Dennis M. Greenbaum, M.D.

Program Director
Margaret D. Smith, M.D.

Overview

St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan offers a fully-accredited transitional program to fulfill the educational needs of medical school graduates who:

• desire a broader base of clinical experience than is initially provided by the program in graduate medical education of their chosen specialty
• choose a career specialty for which the respective program in graduate medical education requires one year of training in fundamental clinical skills and certain specific experiences for development of desired skills; or,
• have not completely decided on their career in medicine and wish to have further experience in more than one medical or surgical discipline before committing themselves to a specialty.

The objective of the transitional year is to provide the trainee with a well-balanced graduate medical education in multiple clinical disciplines. The program is sponsored by St. Vincent's ACGME-accredited residency training programs, which provide the components for the transitional year education. The program is quality-assured by an institutional coordinating committee composed of the medical director of hospital, program director of the transitional program and the program directors (or designees) of disciplines regularly included in the curriculum. 
 
Suggested Electives

• Anesthesiology
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Child Psychiatry
• Emergency Medicine
• General Surgery
• Internal Medicine
• Neurology
• Neurological Surgery
• Nuclear Medicine
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedic Surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Plastic Surgery
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Urology