Hurley Medical Center-Michigan State University Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, MSU College of Human Medicine-affiliated Transitional Year at Hurley Medical Center, a public safety-net teaching hospital in Flint that also serves as a Level 1 Trauma Center. The program is explicitly structured as a bridge year: residents rotate through internal medicine, coronary care, ICU, emergency medicine, pediatric outpatient, and geriatrics, then customize three elective blocks from a wide menu (anesthesia, diagnostic/interventional radiology, PM&R, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry, neurology, radiation oncology) built specifically to satisfy prerequisite requirements of specialties that require or value a preliminary year. A defining structural feature is the newly created Dermatology Categorical Track, which links two of the five annual TY positions directly to a designated PGY2 start at the Dermatology & Cosmetic Center in Flint, while the three "regular" preliminary positions are reviewed only during the SOAP period rather than the main Match. Faculty and program leadership are described as long-tenured with minimal turnover, and the six-resident cap is framed as enabling individualized attention to each resident's specific specialty-preparation needs rather than a uniform curriculum.