transitional year program
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transitional year program
Graduate education A flexible internship in which an intern–a physician in the first year of graduate medical education is exposed to many fields–eg, OB/GYN, ER, orthopedics, anesthesia, medicine, surgery. See Internship, Purple book.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.