McLaren Health Care Corporation-McLaren Oakland Program

Program Identity & Fit

McLaren Oakland's Transitional Year is a community-based, ACGME-accredited pre-specialty year housed within a Michigan State University-affiliated osteopathic/allopathic teaching system, designed explicitly to service applicants advancing into radiology, dermatology, anesthesiology, and PM&R rather than to stand alone as a career destination. The curriculum is structured around a core internal medicine base (4 months) plus EM, FM, surgery, and ICU months, with a built-in specialty-specific elective track for radiology-bound residents (2 months radiology, plus pulmonary and ortho), signaling that the program organizes its year around residents' confirmed advanced specialty placements. Research is not embedded in the TY itself but exists at the institutional level through McLaren's system-wide Center for Research and Innovation, making it available rather than integral to this particular program. The program values well-rounded clinical competence, professionalism, and a smooth functional transition into residents' subsequent categorical specialty rather than independent scholarly or leadership development within the TY year itself.