Dear Prospective Transitional Resident,
Thank you for your interest in the Transitional Medical residency program at Lehigh Valley Health Network. Graduate medical education is a valued tradition which began more than a half-century ago at our hospital. Lehigh Valley Health Network is very aware of its responsibility to prepare physicians for the healthcare challenges of a system that is in transition. We hope you will find in this information the answers to your questions regarding our graduate medical education opportunities.
Lehigh Valley Health Network offers a one-year Transitional medicine program with a flexible curriculum allowing completion of your program specific requirements. Many varied opportunities are available for exposure to all aspects of medicine built into a strong medicine training year. Clinical and academic learning is blended well with an emphasis on bedside teaching.
Residents learn by caring for a manageable number of patients with various diagnoses and levels of acuity. Typically, a PGY-1 resident follows eight to 12 patients at a time. Lehigh Valley Health Network is becoming a major clinical campus of the University of South Florida College of Medicine. This affiliation strengthens our medical education programs. Each year, the hospital provides elective and required rotations in more than 20 subspecialties for medical students preparing for their postgraduate training.
One of the largest hospitals in Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Health Network meets the medical needs of the population of the Lehigh Valley, eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey. Our physicians and healthcare professionals treat patients whose illnesses range from the simple to the most complex. This patient mix provides an ideal clinical environment for the education of medical students and physicians-in-training. Unlike a university hospital where a few medical subspecialties may be emphasized at the sacrifice of broad clinical education experience, Lehigh Valley Health Network's diverse patient population offers a variety of primary, secondary and tertiary care learning opportunities. In many ways, our hospital merges the resources and benefits of both community hospitals and large academic medical centers.
The challenging nature of Lehigh Valley Health Network's medical education programs is supported by a progressive Department of Medicine and a dedicated faculty of teaching physicians. These doctors, whose efforts focus primarily on patient care and resident training, are also active in clinical research.
Modern facilities and state-of-the-art equipment underscore the hospital's priority of offering the best environment in which to learn, work and provide medical care. With a national reputation for quality and patient safety and recognition with many national awards makes the institution ideal for medical education.
In addition to quality postgraduate training, residents receive a generous and innovative benefits package which equals or exceeds the compensation offered by most other teaching hospitals. On behalf of the Department of Medicine at Lehigh Valley Health Network, we wish you success as you prepare for your career as a physician.
This Transitional Year program will provide you with an outstanding educational experience to take your future training path to its highest potential. We look forward to meeting you!
Sincerely,
Marc Shalaby, MD, FACP
Program Director
Program Director
Brian Costello, DO
Associate Program Director
Stacey Smith, MD, FACP
Associate Program Director
Jennifer Mariotti, DO, FACP
Assistant Program Director
Assistant Program Director
Michael J. Pistoria, DO, FACP, FHM
Assistant Program Director
Assistant Program Director
Emergency Medicine Administration:
Kevin Weaver, DO and Charles Worrilow, MD
Dr. Marc Shalaby
