Summa Health System-NEOMED Program

Program Identity & Fit

Summa Health's Transitional Year is a community teaching-hospital program affiliated with NEOMED, structured around nine months of required core rotations (general internal medicine, critical care, CCU, emergency medicine, ambulatory care, night float) and three fully flexible elective months, allowing residents to tailor preparation toward whatever specialty they are advancing into. The elective menu is notably broad, spanning radiology-adjacent options like point-of-care ultrasound, procedures, and radiation oncology alongside dermatology, sports medicine, addiction medicine, and research, signaling accommodation of diverse PGY-2 destinations rather than a single downstream focus. Research is available as an elective and institutionally supported through dedicated centers, but is not positioned as a program expectation for TY residents. The program's identity centers on flexible foundational training for residents entering varied advanced specialties, within a community academic environment that emphasizes broad clinical exposure over a narrow career pipeline.