Transitional Year Residency - Anderson

Welcome to the St. Luke’s Transitional Year Residency - Anderson Campus. We are part of a vast Network that is home to multiple hospitals, a medical school, and a rich and storied legacy of graduate medical education. Our sponsoring program is the Internal Medicine program here at the Anderson campus; you will gain significant exposure and experience in Internal Medicine during your time here. The Transitional Year Program is also proud to be a part of a unique collaborative effort in conjunction with the Department of Dermatology and the Department of Radiology through the creation of a combined-four and five year training track, respectively.

The goal of St. Luke’s Transitional Year Residency Program at Anderson is to provide a strong foundation in the care of patients both in the inpatient and outpatient settings. After finishing this program, the transitional year resident will have amassed a solid fund of knowledge regarding the evaluation and treatment of hospitalized patients, as well as management of common ambulatory based medical issues seen by a primary care internist. In addition, the transitional year resident will have learned about preventative medicine and health maintenance; s/he will also gain appreciation and exposure to Lifestyle Medicine and its important role in the treatment of many chronic medical conditions.

Our trainees who choose this year are seeking a preparatory year before entering other residency training. Others are looking for a broad-based clinical year to help them to decide which field of medicine they would like to pursue. Strengths of our program include: flexible elective time with a wide choice of clinical experiences; individual tailoring of the residents’ curriculum to suit his/her long-term career goals; a strong educational environment with dedicated faculty; the opportunity to interact with residents/fellows from other programs; excellent ambulatory training in a faculty practice; and the opportunity to learn with interactive conferences.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to train and educate future physicians to obtain the necessary medical knowledge, acquire the necessary skills and clinical acumen, and develop the humanistic qualities and attitudes needed to provide integrated and comprehensive care for the adult and geriatric populations in our community.

There are four other additional components to our mission:

We seek to instill in our residents an insatiable curiosity for medicine and patient care as well as the continued motivation to foster that curiosity during their residency training and for the rest of their lives. The learning does not stop after residency training; as doctors, the learning never stops.
Part of the “art” of medicine, is not only being an effective communicator, but also part teacher, part coach, and part motivator. We seek to empower our patients by fostering that self-motivation.
We want to foster an environment of physician wellness and humanity.
We seek to instill accountability for ourselves and for each other. In our program, the care of patients is a team-based effort. We are accountable to ourselves and to one another.

Collaboration, Personalized Training and Patient Care

One aspect of not only the Transitional Year Program, but of all the residency programs here at Anderson Campus is the collaborative nature of the residency programs. During your time here, you will have the opportunity to work with Internal Medicine residents, but also residents in Family Medicine, Neurology, Behavioral Health, and Emergency Medicine. We are a campus whose educational efforts, residency training, and patient care are entwined with one another.

This is a friendly and supportive environment – the medical staff, but also those of us involved in graduate medical education are committed to fostering an environment where questions are welcomed, and anyone is more than willing to help in any way possible.