Ascension Saint Francis
Transitional Year Residency
Transitional year training is specifically designed and intended for:
- medical school graduates seeking advanced training in a specific specialty which requires a year of fundamental clinical education as a prerequisite
- medical school graduates planning to serve in public health organizations or on active duty in the military as general medical officers or primary flight/undersea medicine physicians
- medical school graduates who desire or need to acquire at least one year of fundamental clinical education before entering administrative medicine or non-clinical research
Why choose us?
Ascension Saint Francis is a 270-bed licensed acute care facility located on the south side of Evanston, Illinois. There are nearly 100 residents training at Ascension Saint Francis on a continuous and ongoing basis. The Ascension Saint Francis Transitional Year Residency is sponsored by Ascension Illinois Graduate Medical Education. In addition to the program, the institution also sponsors a categorical and preliminary medicine residency as well as categorical programs in diagnostic radiology, which are primarily based out of Ascension Saint Francis.
Other consortium-sponsored programs whose residents rotate through Ascension Saint Francis include emergency medicine and obstetrics and gynecology.
Ascension Saint Francis is also affiliated with the University of Illinois Chicago residency training program in general surgery and serves as a rotation site for residents in that program.
Demographics
Over the past 20 years, the program has successfully recruited residents from allopathic and osteopathic schools. As in most civilian Transitional Year Programs PGY-1 interns continue their training in advanced specialty training programs. These typically include:
- Radiation Oncology
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Anesthesiology
- Physiatry (PM&R)
- Neurology
- Occupational Medicine
- Ophthalmology
The program also graduates trainees enrolled in the Armed Forces.
Among the program’s graduates are trainees who have gone on to service in each of the branches of the Armed Forces. Typically, such graduates enter service and attain additional service-specific certifications.
The majority of our program’s Transitional Residents have been graduates of U.S. medical schools.
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
Invitation to interview
Candidates for interview will be selected based on review of the information provided in ERAS. The program typically begins application review in October. Invitations to interview in December, January and early February are usually sent in October and November. The application deadline is December 1*.
*The program will make deadline exceptions for applicants with civilian deferments and for early (January) match applicants whose outcomes were unanticipated. (Students incurring these circumstances are invited to contact program coordinator by telephone for guidance in the application procedure).
Medical school graduation
Observership program
USMLE scores
A score of 200 and above on both Step 1 and 2 examinations. Applicants can interview without USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills and Clinical Knowledge being taken. Applicants are required to have passed USMLE Step 2 – Clinical Skills and Clinical Knowledge before starting in a first year position. AMITA Saint Francis does not have an official “number of attempts” for passing Steps I and II. However, after more than two attempts an applicant’s application would not be given high consideration.