Medicine Intern Year: Applying to Prelim Year or Transitional year

Are you applying to intern year and deciding between Prelim year or transitional year? Unsure about what the differences between prelim and transitional year is? Want to know how many programs to apply to ? This video answers all those questions including my experience in making that decision.

[@miraclemiracle9289]

Thank you for this detailed explanation !

[@vans4lyf2013]

Love your videos. As a black woman interested in derm you're doing God's work! So great to see some representation in this field.

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Thanks so much for watching my vids as well as for the feedback! 😊

[@miraclemiracle9289]

Thank you !!!!!

[@xiaoweimalone3377]

This has been really helpful! Year 3 applying to Derm trying to figure out how many TY or prelim I need to apply.

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MrMaloty]

Thanks for sharing

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Thanks for watching!

[@reet9015]

Nice job! US med student here. Keep it up!

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed!

[@kirtirishi956]

Do i have to apply to advanced program at thesame timeas prelim or transitional?

[@wyattrumrill6662]

Do TYs really care about where you're from? I'm from/go to school in the midwest. Are PNW and East coast programs not gonna interview me because of that?

[@AshutoshUpadhyayaisgeeky]

Hi, your video was really informative. I am a non US IMG with 2018 YOG whio recently finished step 1 and 2 but no USCE. I know its late for this yr cycle but I couldn't do any thing as my exams were postponed for almost a yr. If I don't match the next yr, I will exceed 5yrs YOG bar. Due to covid situations its not possible for me to get visas for step3 or externship. I want to residency in IM. Do you think I should apply for transitional this yr so that if I match into one I can at least get some US clinical experience and then apply IM categorical next yr? Please help.

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Well transitional years are relatively competitive. I don’t think TY programs are going to accept an applicant who isn’t applying to an advanced program as well, but I’m not sure. You’ll definitely have to do some more research on that. I’d suggest applying to as many IMG friendly Internal Med programs as possible .

[@Life2dmax1]

How do you know which TY or prelim medicine programs are "easy" or "hard?

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Really just reputation wise- what you’ve heard from graduated Med students or from what your classmates have heard from their own friends who are current/past residents of the program. Sometimes you can also gauge from the sample schedules the program puts on their website- ie: 6mos of elective lol

[@Ayu-id9em]

Can I apply to preliminary internal medicine this year and then apply to an advanced specialty like diagnostic radiology next year?

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

It is possible but not always successfully done. However, A lot of people do this when they don’t successfully match and therefore re apply again during their intern year.

[@patrickmelville4469]

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[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Lol thanks, all fixed now! Hope the vid was helpful and thanks for watching ☺️

[@rastafarai3712]

There’s no difference between prelim and TY I saw “prelims” with only 4 months of IM and “TYs” with 7 months of required IM... this terminology should be changed.

[@TheRealSkinImInMD]

Thanks for watching and subscribing 😊 I have heard of challenging TY programs with lots of IM time as well. For now, I think the general understanding is still the same with TY being expected to be easier due to less IM time (especially in the minds of a lot of program directors)