The curriculum of the Transitional Year Residency is well-rounded with exposure to a wide variety of patients, conditions and practice settings. Residents benefit from the guidance of IU School of Medicine’s outstanding clinical faculty, who are practicing physicians at IU Health.
Learning Opportunities
Program Aim
To develop healthcare leaders who are well prepared to enter advanced residency training by teaching foundational practice skills and fundamental elements of high-quality, multidisciplinary health care delivery.
Core Clinical Rotations
The clinical curriculum consists of 13 four-week blocks. Each resident completes the core clinical rotations and a five-rotation specialty track aimed at advanced residency preparation.
| Emergency Medicine | 2 blocks |
| Family Medicine Clinic | longitudinal |
| Internal Medicine Clinic | 1 block |
| Internal Medicine Hospitalist | 2 blocks |
| Pediatrics Hospitalist | 1 block |
| Medical ICU | 1 block |
| Radiology-Quality-Safety | 1 block |
| Specialty Track Electives | 5 blocks |
Specialty Tracks for PGY-2 Preparation
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AnesthesiologyMedical ICU (2nd rotation)
Cardiology
Toxicology
Anesthesiology
Neurology or Pain Clinic
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DermatologyDermatology Clinic
Dermatopathology
Infectious Diseases
Allergy, Asthma, Immunology
Plastic Surgery -
NeurologyCardiology
Toxicology
Palliative Care
Neurology
Infectious Diseases -
Physical Medicine & RehabilitationGeneral Surgery
Orthopaedics
Neurology
Palliative Care
PM&R or Pain Clinic -
Radiation OncologyPalliative Care
Oncology Clinic
Pathology
Radiation Oncology
Neurology -
RadiologyGeneral Surgery
Pathology Autopsy
Orthopedics
Neurology
Radiology
30+
partner clinical services and academic departments
37
years of continuous ACGME program accreditation
112
years of graduate medical education at Methodist Hospital
Didactic Curriculum
The Transitional Year Residency hosts a multifaceted didactic curriculum that supplements clinical learning experiences. Didactic discussions focus on a wide range of topics in the following domains:
- Evidence-based medicine
- Ethics of practice
- Professional sustainability
- Physician wellbeing
Residents are also invited to attend a wide array of didactics from affiliated clinical service lines and academic departments at IU School of Medicine.
Learning Environment
Based at IU Health Methodist Hospital and a part of IU Health’s academic health center in downtown Indianapolis, the Transitional Year Residency has maintained an enduring partnership with Methodist Hospital.
Residents benefit from training in the supportive learning environment fostered by both IU Health and IU School of Medicine. The Transitional Year Residency is supported by several other IU School of Medicine residency programs and by numerous IU Health clinical service lines.
COVID-19 Response
Transitional Year residents have proudly served patients through the viral pandemic. Clinical services and faculty continue to involve Transitional Year residents in patient care on all typical rotations, and the current practice climate has even generated new resident learning opportunities.
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IU Health Team
Transitional Year operations and clinical learning have been largely unaffected thanks to a strong commitment to resident education from IU School of Medicine and IU Health.