HCA Medical City Healthcare GME Plano Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, twelve-resident Transitional Year program housed at Medical City Plano, a 603-bed Level I trauma center affiliated with the HCA Medical City Healthcare UNT-TCU GME Consortium and UNTHSC-TCU School of Medicine. The curriculum follows a standard broad-internship structure (general surgery, internal medicine, emergency medicine, ambulatory medicine, radiology, anesthesia, plus two elective months) explicitly designed to prepare residents for advanced specialties such as Radiology, Anesthesia, Dermatology, PM&R, and Radiation Oncology rather than for primary care or independent practice. As part of the broader HCA Healthcare GME network, residents have access to national research infrastructure (30+ million patient encounters, research coordinators, the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine) and institutional wellness programming (the Pathways to Flourishing / 5-Pillar model), though scholarly activity is offered as institutional support rather than a defining feature of this specific TY year. The program's value proposition centers on serving as a launching pad—individualized rotations and elective flexibility—for residents already matched or planning to match into image-heavy or procedure-light specialties requiring a preliminary/transitional year.