The principal goal of the Transitional Residency at Dell Medical School is to provide a well-balanced graduate medical education program in multiple clinical disciplines designed to prepare residents for their future specialty. The curriculum provides a grounding in basic medicine, knowledge of critical situations and their management and perspective on a chosen specialty and its subspecialties.
- Residents can request to do away electives, but this must be approved by the program director and Dell Med’s graduate medical education office.
- Thursday afternoons are reserved for required Transitional Residency program didactics.
- Residents must also attend the scheduled didactics on the service where they are rotating.
- Residents are required to produce a scholarly project and have exposure to quality improvement.
Curriculum Components
The curriculum consists of 13 block rotations each lasting four weeks. The rotations may change slightly from year to year but will be similar to the following list:
- 2 Blocks: Internal medicine wards
- 1 Block: Pediatric wards
- 1 Block: Pediatric emergency medicine
- 1 Block: Emergency medicine
- 1 Block: Surgery (acute care or pediatric)
- 1 Block: Critical care (SICU)
- 1 Block: Ambulatory experience
- 1 Block: Neurology or psychiatry
- 4 Blocks: Electives (includes one required research elective block)
All rotations occur at Dell Seton Medical Center and Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, as well as at a variety of private specialty physicians’ offices.