Informational presentation on the First Year Transitional Internship Program at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth for recently graduated medical students.

1. Transitional Internship at
NMCP
CDR Roderick Borgie
Program Director
LCDR Coleman Bryan
Assistant Program Director

2. Presentation Given at Medical
Student Open House 2014
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5. Transitional Year Target
Groups
 Broad Based Internship
Radiology, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia,
Ophthalmology, Dermatology, PMR, Pathology
 Undecided Career Goals
 Operational Platform
 “Backup plan”

6. Sometimes,
ACGME language
and requirements are
hard to
understand….
We take care of that
for you

7. Transitional Internship Year
13- Four Week Blocks
10 Core Rotations
3 Electives

8. TY Core Curriculum
 Internal Medicine Wards-8 weeks
 Inpatient General Surgery-4 weeks
 Coronary Care Unit-4 weeks
 Intensive Care Unit-4 weeks
 Emergency Department-4 weeks
 Ambulatory-4 weeks
 Orthopedics-4 weeks
 OB/GYN- 4 weeks
 Operational / Psychiatry-4 weeks (operational
medicine and psych ER consults)

9. Flight Surgery, anyone??

10. Dive??

11. TY Electives
(sample of ones done in past)
 Trauma, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery
 Ophthalmology, ENT, Urology,
 Anesthesia
 Family Practice
 Dermatology
 Radiology, Pathology, Prev Med
 Operational (aviation,dive)
 Physiatry, Neurology
 Continuity Clinic

12. Surgery at sea.

13. TY Academic Curriculum
 Departmental
conferences,
M&M’s, etc
 Weekly TY
operational
medicine
lectures
 Research
projects

14. The opportunities available are
not even limited by the sky!!!!!!

15. TY Extracurricular Activities
 Community Service
Projects
 Intern Sporting
Events
 Tidewater Area
Gatherings
 Happy Hour
 Dining Out
 Social Events

16. Before You Ask...
 Equivalent educational opportunities
 Equitable call schedules
 TY spaces – a place to call “home”!
 ACGME accreditation

17. Special Features of TY Internship
Continuity Clinic - option
Operational Medicine Exposure
 Weekly Operational Lectures

18. Why Portsmouth?
Professional reasons:
 Newest facility
 Largest patient population
( Busiest!!)
 Virtually no fellowships
 Coolest people (OK, little biased)

19. Cool is a relative term, I suppose

20. Why Portsmouth?
Personal reasons:
 Low cost-of-living, little traffic
 Good schools
 Beaches, water sports
 Great music venues
 Museums, sporting events, cultural events
 American history
 United States Atlantic Fleet
 Coolest people (not as biased this time)

21. Who makes up the NMCP TY group?
“Others” NMCP TY!

22. Now you can make informed decision on a career path to
adventure!
My wish is for you not to end up as a lonely storm trooper.

23. JOIN US!
NMCP TY ALUMNI