Transitional Year Residency

Transitional Year Residency

St. Joseph’s Medical Center's Transitional Year training program welcomed its first class of residents in 2020.  St. Joseph’s is a busy urban hospital in Stockton, CA. The hospital has more than 300 beds, a busy ICU, and hosts delivery of more than 3,000 babies each year. Transitional Year residents’ primary outpatient experience is at nearby Community Medical Centers – Channel, serving the diverse patient population of the greater Stockton area. Residents also will have the opportunity to train at other area clinics and hospitals during their elective time. The program provides an excellent and diverse training environment in the heart of California’s Central Valley.

The St. Joseph’s Transitional Year Residency Program is part of a multi-year effort to expand graduate medical education at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine programs started in 2018, and Internal Medicine will be starting 2020. One of the hallmarks of the St. Joseph’s Transitional Year Residency Program is collaboration among different specialties with unique learning opportunities for residents, research projects, and benefits to patient care.

Residents will find a welcoming and caring family of faculty and staff at St. Joseph’s Medical Center. The unique combination of busy urban hospital surrounded by a relatively rural and under-served community yields excellent patient care experiences. Please consider pursuing your transitional year training with our program!

Residency Curriculum

We are ACGME Accredited Transitional Year Program. You will receive 28 weeks of Fundamental Clinical Skills (FCS) and 16 week of Electives.

FCS Rotations

• Emergency Department (Sponsoring Program)
• Internal Medicine Wards
• Family Medicine Wards 
• Intensive Care Unit
• Ambulatory Care
• General Surgery

Selective Rotations

• Emergency Department 
• Internal Medicine Wards
• Family Medicine Wards 
• Intensive Care Unit
• General Surgery
• Peds
• OBGYN

Elective Rotations

• Anesthesia
• Pediatrics
• Outpatient OBGYN
• Orthopedics 
• Neurology
• Psychiatry
• Oncology Radiation
• Hemoc
• Endocrinology
• Inpt Peds
• Radiology
• PM&R
• Pain
• Ophthalmology
• Urology
• Med Tox
• POCUS
• Any FCS rotation 
• Derm 

Sample Schedule

Salary & Benefits

These policies are subject to change at the discretion of the St. Joseph’s Medical Center Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) and as needed based on ACGME requirements and guidelines updates.

Annual Salary: Annual salary is competitive within our region and is adjusted and approved annually by human resources and the graduate medical education committee

Salary: For 2024-2025, the minimum salary for incoming residents or clinical fellows, who are not members of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, by PGY level of training is as follows:

PGY Level Salary: Stipends will be reevaluated in the fall of each year. All Residents will be notified via annual Resident contracts.

Stipend (Range) Levels for the 2025-2026 Academic Year:

More Information

Jessica Oliveira
Residency Program Administrator
Transitional Year Residency Program
St. Joseph’s Medical Center of Stockton
1800 North California Street
Stockton, CA 95204
Jessica.Oliveira@commonspirit.org