Richmond University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Richmond University Medical Center's Diagnostic Radiology Residency is a small, community-hospital-based program (two residents per year, eight total) built around a Level I Trauma Center and major Stroke Center serving Staten Island. Training occurs primarily at the main campus and an affiliated outpatient imaging center, with faculty who are fellowship-trained across neuroradiology, interventional radiology, musculoskeletal, breast imaging, pediatric radiology and nuclear medicine, giving residents exposure to a full modality range including PET/CT, cardiac CT, and breast MRI. Recent graduates have consistently gone on to competitive subspecialty fellowships (neuroradiology and body imaging at Mount Sinai, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Northwestern, Mayo), indicating the program functions as a fellowship-preparation pipeline despite its small, close-knit community setting. The program emphasizes a tight-knit resident-attending culture, night-float and buddy-call structures for graduated autonomy, and funded board-review/AIRP conference attendance, suggesting it values collegiality and steady subspecialty exposure over high-volume academic research output.