Transitional Year Residency Program
Our Mission:
“ …to develop physicians poised to serve the health needs of diverse communities by providing compassionate, equitable and evidence-based care while maintaining personal resiliency and the highest professional standards.”
Welcome to the UPMC Medical Education Transitional Year Residency!
As the TY program director, it has been my personal mission to offer a supportive first year where residents can become the best physician and person possible. This approach has set our residents up for future success in that they can take the best possible care of patients while preserving their kindness, compassion, empathy, and resilience. This, to me, is my most important responsibility to them and to the medical profession overall.
Through close mentoring with outcome-based assessment and feedback our program promotes both the personal and professional growth of our residents. We provide individualized training and mentorship with a focus on patient-centered care and clinical excellence.
Becoming a physician is a deliberate process aided by peers, teaching faculty, patients, and the the individuals we work with day in and day out to care for patients.
The pandemic has forever changed medical education at all levels and has impacted the delivery of patient care and graduate medical education in ways we could never have anticipated. Despite the challenges of learning and working in a pandemic, we have continued to successfully foster a culture of well-being within UPMC that supports our TY residents during one of the most challenging times in their development.
By choosing our program, you will have the opportunity to learn from and work next to some of the most brilliant, self-effacing, and caring physicians, healthcare providers and clinical teams in the country. Daily, the TY residents give me hope for the future of medicine. I have great optimism for the current and future successes of our Transitional Year residents who train here at UPMC Medical Education.
I hope you find our site helpful in choosing UPMC as your destination for ongoing professional development. To get an idea of what Pittsburgh offers both within and outside of the hospital please view the Institutional GME videos and site and the website of our primary sponsoring Internal Medicine program. There is a link for living in Pittsburgh that has resident-focused resources which show what a wonderful place Pittsburgh is to train and live. Lastly, know that we are invested in you, your learning experience and future professional goals.
Julie B. McCausland, MD, MS
Director, UPMC ME Transitional Year Residency
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine
University of Pittsburgh SOM
Program Overview
The UPMC Medical Education (UPMC ME) Transitional Year (TY) Program is an ACGME-accredited one year program that provides an impactful clinical base-year for a diverse group of learners matched into advanced residency programs at UPMC and elsewhere.
We are based at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Presbyterian-Shadyside and Montefiore hospitals on the Oakland medical campus in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
We are sponsored by the UPMC Internal Medicine and UPMC Emergency Medicine programs.
TY’s benefit from the infrastructure of the categorical programs within which they rotate and are fully integrated with their categorical counterparts.
Our teaching faculty focus on clinical education including evidence-based medicine, patient safety and quality, clinical reasoning, procedural safety, in addition to other important physician skills including patient-centered and empathic communication, professionalism and interdepartmental and interdisciplinary teamwork.
Our TY’s are expertly prepared for their advanced specialty and for the practice of medicine overall with exposure to a diverse spectrum of patients with various medical and social challenges in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
For continuity of training at UPMC, NRMP tracks with the UPMC Medical Education Diagnostic Radiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Ophthalmology programs exist.
