I. Criteria to Apply for Family Medicine & Transitional Year

• Applications accepted through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service)
  
• 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.
  
• For FMG/IMG's:  You must have your ECFMG certificate and have completed one year at a U.S. Accredited Residency Program.  This must be hands-on clinical experience / research fellowships, externships, volunteering are not acceptable in place of the one year hands-on clinical requirement. 
  
• 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; 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 give to those completing PGY I training in a Transitional Year Program, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics or General Surgery residency program.
  
• Due to fiscal restraints we will only be able to consider J1 Visas.
  
• 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 Year Residency program.
  
• Foreign Medical Graduates must have a score satisfactory to the GMEC on the USMLE examination 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 given to their application.
  
• A maximum of five (5) years from graduation to application is preferred.
  
• Applicants who are not in the NRMP may be interviewed.  These applicants will be ranked in 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.
  
• There must be reference letters (three plus the Dean's letter or Program Director's letter), the authenticity of which must be acceptable to the Residency Program Director.  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.