Residents entering a program that offers the 36-month format must have completed a year of graduate medical education that satisfies III.A.2. and includes at least one of the following: (1) eight months in internal medicine with primary responsibility in patient care, or (2) six months in internal medicine with primary responsibility in patient care and a period of at least two months’ time comprising one or more months of pediatrics, emergency medicine, internal medicine, or family medicine.