Criteria

• Consideration for application shall not be unlawfully influenced or affected by virtue of applicant's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disability unrelated to ability to perform the duties of the residency or any other characteristic protected by law.
   
• All potential applicants should be either anticipated graduates or graduates of a medical school approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association, Education Division.  Graduates of any other non-LCME approved medical school, must be enrolled in, or will have completed a 12-month PGY I position in a training program approved by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and must have received a 12 month residency completion certificate.  Preference will be given to those completing PGY I training in a Transitional YearProgram, Internal Medicine, OB/Gyn, Pediatrics or General Surgery residency program.
   
• Graduates of LCME or AOA approved programs must have a score satisfactory to the GMEC on USMLE or COMLEX Boards Parts I and have taken Part II to be considered for the Family Medicine and/or Transitional YearResidency Program.  
   
• Foreign medical graduate applicants must have a score satisfactory to the GMEC on the USMLE, examinations to be considered for the Family Medicine Residency and/or Transitional Year programs.  All applicants must have successfully completed both Parts I and II of the USMLE examination.  If an applicant has not passed any part of the USMLE within three attempts no further consideration will be give to their application.
   
• Applicants who are not in the NRMP may be interviewed.  These applicants will be ranked in a separate, non-NRMP category but their names will not be submitted to the NRMP.  If there are unfilled positions after the match, these positions may be offered to the non-NRMP applicants in the order of their rank.
   
• A minimum of three reference letters plus a Dean’s letter and or Program Director’s letter must accompany each application.  The authenticity of all reference letters must be acceptable to the resident program director and must be received directly from the reference source or ERAS.
   
• All applicants must be interviewed to be ranked.
   
• No response will be made to out-of-country inquiries.
   
• Due to fiscal restraints we will only be able to consider J1 visas.
   
• A maximum of 5 years from graduation to application is required.