Best location for Army TY?

[sonofva]

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Can anyone weigh in on the best location to do an Army Transitional year? thanks.

 

[bleeker10]

Depends what you want out of the TY. Are you doing it to help yourself get a competitive residency post-MS4? Then try to do it at a place with that residency, specifically one with a track record of taking TY. Do you want a cool location for a once in a lifetime experience? Go to Tripler. Most of the other locations (minus Madigan) are in pretty crappy locations. Eisenhower is within 2-3 hours of Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah, Columbia (SC), Hilton Head, etc. DC is cool for all the sites and museums if you've never been before. Not sure I'd want to do a TY there. I think I'd rather just go on a vacation there later in life on my own dime.

Realize that if you do a TY, chances are very high you will be moving after that year. So if you go to a place like Tripler, the big decision is whether to bring all your stuff or just leave it in storage for a year.

 

[sonofva]

Depends what you want out of the TY. Are you doing it to help yourself get a competitive residency post-MS4? Then try to do it at a place with that residency, specifically one with a track record of taking TY. Do you want a cool location for a once in a lifetime experience? Go to Tripler. Most of the other locations (minus Madigan) are in pretty crappy locations. Eisenhower is within 2-3 hours of Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah, Columbia (SC), Hilton Head, etc. DC is cool for all the sites and museums if you've never been before. Not sure I'd want to do a TY there. I think I'd rather just go on a vacation there later in life on my own dime.

Realize that if you do a TY, chances are very high you will be moving after that year. So if you go to a place like Tripler, the big decision is whether to bring all your stuff or just leave it in storage for a year.

I guess my problem is that I really haven't decided what I want to do for my career. So I'm looking for somewhere that would give me strong exposure to the basic fields (surg/IM/Peds), and would let me get my hands the dirtiest.

 

[bleeker10]

Well TY has to follow specific rotations set by the ACGME. Most of it is medicine wards/ICU/ambulatory medicine. There's also a month of EM, surgery and some electives. You can google the ACGME requirements. I'm not sure if you get to do peds or not. I think that is institution specific.

Obviously a TY would work best for someone unsure of their future plans. The problem is you have about 4-5 rotations before you submit your ROL. It doesn't give you much time to figure things out.