Curriculum
The UPMC Mercy transitional year residency program consists of seven required and six elective rotations of four weeks each.
Required Rotations
The seven required rotations include:
- three blocks of general internal medicine
- one block of night medicine
- one block of critical care
- one block of ambulatory medicine
- one block of emergency medicine
A Wide Range of Electives
Among the electives offered to transitional year residents are:
- anesthesiology
- emergency medicine
- medical informatics
- medicine
- cardiology
- CCM-cardiovascular ICU
- CCM-ICU
- endocrinology
- gastroenterology
- geriatric medicine
- infectious disease
- nephrology
- neurology
- oncology
- pulmonary disease
- rheumatology
- pathology
- pediatrics
- neonatal intensive care
- outpatient clinic
- physical medicine and rehabilitation
- psychiatry
- radiology
- surgery
- cardiovascular surgery
- general surgery
- neurosurgery
- ophthalmology
- orthopaedic surgery
- otolaryngology
- urology
- other electives by arrangement with program director