Transitional Year Program
Program Director: Gabriel S. Lerman, DO
Chair, Department of Medicine: Rotem Friede, MD
The Transitional Year Residency (TYR) program at Mercy Catholic Medical Center (MCMC) is designed to provide physicians in training with a well-balanced academic and clinical experience that will allow transitional year residents to make informed decisions about their next career choice or fulfill the requirements of a specialty, the military, or a public health system.
Attaining Osteopathic Recognition means we also offer a robust and integrated Osteopathic curriculum that both DOs and non-DOs can participate in that helps take the Osteopathic Principles and Practice as well as the application of Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques from the classroom to the bedside.
Over the course of the one-year program, residents can gain a first-hand perspective of a wide range of medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties and to develop the clinical competence required to pursue a specific discipline.
As a community-based academic hospital Mercy Fitzgerald provides residents with a diverse case learning experience which serves the suburban and urban patients of Eastern Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia. In addition, our partnership with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) gives our residents the opportunity to serve the urban population of West Philadelphia at their Cedar Ave campus. As a result, our residents will also be taught by the same hospitalists at their main campus.
Our residents can practice out-patient primary care medicine with a rotation at the Primary Care Clinic at PCOM, where board certified Family Medicine specialists guide the resident in managing patients in a modern outpatient practice setting with a medical home model. These two hospitals, plus the outpatient clinic, give residents an opportunity to develop professional and personal skills to minister to the needs of people from many different economic and socio-cultural backgrounds.
Residents who commonly enter our one-year program are matched in advanced standing in several subspecialties, including radiology, preventive/occupational medicine, anesthesiology, radiation oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, and dermatology among other disciplines. Any resident that does not have an advanced standing has successfully matched into the discipline of their choice while at our program.
MCMC TYR is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We participate in the NRMP match only and accept recent graduates of both U.S. Allopathic and Osteopathic medical schools. Unfortunately, in the TYR program, we cannot accept international medical graduates or those who do not possess US citizenship/Green Card.