What ARE the most competitive residencies?

[lord_jeebus]

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I'm not sure you can do a transitional year as your prelim for the competitive specialties. At least I was told you couldn't.
I have no doubt you are correct that the prelim program schedule depends on your program. But the folks I know in prelim years are "the intern" on their teams, and get treated the same.

You definitely can use Transitional, at a minimum, for rads/derm/gas/ophtho/radonc. The Transitional programs I interviewed at had people going into all these fields. Also EM if you match in one of the few programs that don't include PGY-1.

 

[Law2Doc]

You definitely can use Transitional, at a minimum, for rads/derm/gas/ophtho/radonc. The Transitional programs I interviewed at had people going into all these fields.

I'm not sure if things changed, or if you met some folks going into specialty programs with different requirements than the norm of their field, but advisors at my school do advise that you are not able to use a transitional program for least some of those specialties.

 

[lord_jeebus]

Here are the ACGME requirements for clinical base years:

http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/RRC_999/999_SpecialtySpecificRequirementsPGYCBY_TY_AA_06_05_2008.pdf

It seems to me that most if not all Transitional programs should meet the requirements for all the ones I mentioned, although one should confirm that the program meets the ACGME guidelines (X mo. of direct patient care, an EM rotation if going into anesthesia, etc.) before applying to a specific place.

 

[Pedsbro]

Helpful official AMA sites:

Locating residency programs by criteria you set...

http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/srch/

Training environment/requirements for the different specialties:

http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/spcindx/0,,TR,00.html