Diagnostic Radiology Residency

Department of Radiology Chair: Oleg Teytelboym, MD 
Residency Program Director: Justin Mackey, MD

Program Overview

The Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program at Mercy Catholic Medical Center (MCMC)/Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic offers a total of 10 residency positions. The goal of the residency program is to produce efficient, high-quality radiologists who are well-trained in all aspects of Radiology. Through early and consistent hands-on training and a focus on scholarly activity and research, the residency program prepares residents for careers in both private practice and academics.

Residents spend the majority of their training at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa. While this serves as the physical location for the residency program, residents are able to read cases—through an integrated PACS system—from the other three Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic hospitals, which include: St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa.; Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; and Saint Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Del. Residents also learn pediatric radiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals.

With a total of 28 faculty and 10 residents, the strength and foundation of the program come from an intimate one-on-one relationship between attending and resident.

This relationship plus a friendly, supportive, and intellectually stimulating environment creates a conducive learning experience. Residency education is the core mission of the faculty and this philosophy permeates through all aspects of the training program.

As the program has no fellows, residents are able to interpret a large number of diagnostic cases and perform a variety of interventional procedures. All imaging modalities are included in residency training:

• Angiography/interventional radiology
• Computerized tomography, including Cardiac CT, Virtual Colonoscopy, and dual-energy CT
• Ultrasonography, including contrast-enhanced ultrasound and musculoskeletal ultrasound
• Nuclear medicine, including cardiac imaging
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging
• Digital fluoroscopy
• Mammography, including digital mammography with 3-D tomosynthesis and stereotactic biopsy
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI ), including the only 3 Tesla magnet in Delaware County

Residents receive 1-2 hours of lectures on a daily basis including didactic lectures, case conferences, resident symposia, and dedicated physics lectures. The educational curriculum is continually updated in order to keep pace with the rapidly evolving field of radiology and to best prepare the residents for the Core Exam. Our residents have had great success passing the Core Exam and pursuing fellowships in a variety of specialties in top academic institutions across the country.

With the recent addition of three new hospitals to our program, residents have ample opportunity to read a large number of cases and be exposed to a great variety of pathology. St. Mary Medical Center, for example, is a Level 2 trauma center so residents gain a greater exposure to trauma cases. 

Residents have ample opportunities to pursue research projects throughout their residency and this is evident by the vast majority presenting at major national radiologic meetings including RSNA and ARRS. Many have won awards and been invited to publish their findings in world renowned radiology journals such as Radiographics.

The Transitional Year Residency Program is linked to the Diagnostic Radiology Residency and is both ACGME and AOA accredited. This Transitional Year Residency serves as the preliminary year for the Radiology Program. During this transitional year, the curriculum includes one month of plain film radiology and one month of ultrasound scanning. This allows our incoming residents to get acclimated to the radiology department and gain some experience so they can hit the ground running on their first day of radiology residency.

The residency program in Diagnostic Radiology is fully approved by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. In addition, MCMC offers an American Medical Association/American Osteopathic Association (AMA/AOA) certified transitional internship which is combined with the program in Diagnostic Radiology. Both programs utilize the National Resident Matching Program for all positions.