Transitional Year Residency Program
Program overview
The Transitional Year Residency program at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) meets the educational needs of medical school graduates who have chosen a specialty that requires one year of general clinical education.
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Benefits
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Residents and faculty
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Department information
The challenging nature of LVHN's medical education programs is supported by a progressive Department of Medicine and a dedicated faculty of teaching physicians.
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Curriculum: overview
The Transitional Year Residency program is scheduled on a 13-block format. Each block is generally four weeks in duration.
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Curriculum: call structure
Traditional overnight call has been replaced with night float and scheduled admitting shifts.
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Curriculum: direct observation
Direct observation develops introspection and fosters change based on individualized feedback.
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Supplemental educational experiences: overview
The Transitional Medicine Residency provides multiple didactic conferences for information mastery.
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Supplemental educational experiences: annual lecture series
The annual lecture series consists of subspecialty lectures scheduled six times on a monthly basis.
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Supplemental educational experiences: resident presentations
All presentations are designed to both promote information mastery and to allow a mechanism for residents to develop their public speaking and presentation skills in a learner-centered and constructive environment.
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Supplemental educational experiences: grand rounds
Topics vary depending on the scheduled subspecialty and include all medicine subspecialties as well as areas of ethics, hospitalist / general internal medicine, and visiting professor grand rounds.
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International students
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Application instructions
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Contact information
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