In 2019 so far, FREIDA™ users have tallied more than 24,000 views of transitional year residency programs. In this list, we pare the list of 151 transitional year residencies down to the 10 programs that rose to the top for user interest.

Rankings are based on identified medical student activity on FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, from Jan. 1, 2019 through Aug. 31, 2019. FREIDA allows medical students to search for a residency or fellowship from more than 11,000 programs—all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Specialty description

Transitional year is an intern experience that many fields require or prefer where the student experiences a global training before beginning residency training. In this training, the graduate would experience both surgical and internal medicine rotations and be well prepared to enter a specialty where a thorough understanding of pathology, physiology and surgical procedures are necessary.

The 10-most viewed transitional year programs

1. Coney Island Hospital Program

2. Loyola Medicine MacNeal Hospital Program

3. Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University (Sinai-Grace) Program

4. Aventura Hospital and Medical Center Program

5. St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Program

6. Kendall Regional Medical Center Program

7. Presence Resurrection Medical Center Program

8. HCA West Florida GME Consortium/Brandon Regional Hospital Program

9. Ascension Providence/MSUCHM Program

10. Louis A Weiss Memorial Hospital Program