Transitional Year Applicant Information

Transitional Year Program
6 Positions
NRMP Program Code #186914

The Transitional Year Program is designed to meet the educational needs of the residents with a need for broad-based primary care education in the fundamental clinical skills. Service obligations of the sponsoring institution are secondary to the Transitional Year educational objectives.

Consider our program if you:

• have chosen a career specialty for which the respective program in graduate medical education has, as a prerequisite, one year of fundamental clinical education, which may also contain certain specific experiences for development of desired skills (e.g., Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Radiology, etc.)
• have not yet made a career choice or specialty selection and desire a broad-based year to assist them in making that decision
• are planning to serve in organizations such as the public health service or on active duty in the military as general medical officers or primary flight/undersea medicine physicians prior to completing a program in graduate medical education
• desire or need to acquire at least one year of fundamental clinical education prior to entering a career path that does not require broad clinical skill, such as administrative medicine or non-clinical research

Our program participates in the AAMC's Electronic Residency Application Service, called ERAS, to accept and process residency applications. This is a computerized application service which is available to all medical students attending accredited schools in the United States, as well as foreign medical graduates via the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Medical students interested in applying to our program can request information and a brochure but applications and supporting documentation must be submitted directly from the medical schools via the Internet. Someone in your medical school's Dean's Office should be able to counsel you regarding this procedure. The NRMP Program Code for our six Preliminary positions in the Transitional Year Program is #1689999P0. 

Erlanger does not provide housing for applicants selected for interview in the Transitional Year Residency Program; however, click here to view information about special rates available at nearby downtown hotels: Hotel Accommodations.

Call the Transitional Year Program Office at 800-947-7823, ext. 6670 if you have other questions.

Note:  The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners requires that applicants for license in Tennessee must be graduates either from LCME or AOA accredited schools or from international schools whose admission criteria are comparable to LCME medical schools.  The UT College of Medicine Chattanooga and its programs have determined that they will only consider applicants for student rotations or residency/fellowship applications who are from schools who meet these same criteria so they would be eligible for medical license in Tennessee after completing residency.