An Overview of Our Program

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Welcome to Emergency Medicine at Rutgers Health/NJMS!

The Emergency Medicine Residency at Rutgers Health/NJMS is a dynamic and innovative program. We provide excellent training for our residents in a high volume, high acuity, urban environment.

  • Inner-city, urban location

    • Wide diversity of patients from many countries and cultures

    • Wide diversity of pathology

    • High volume of patients, with over 98,000 visits last year

    • High acuity patients with an approximately 20% admission rate, including many to critical care units

    • Thirty-bed Observation Unit staffed 24/7 by Nurse Practitioners

  • Level 1 Trauma Center

    • Over 5,900 trauma patients seen annually in our ED

    • High volume of penetrating traums, with an average of three victims of penetrating trauma treated daily

    • Blunt and industrial trauma - close proximity to multiple highways, Newark airport and seaport and NYC

    • Mobile ICU units and Northstar Helicopter based at University Hospital

    • We are staffed with Trauma Surgery and most other surgical specialties in-house, 24/7

  • We are a large tertiary care center that provides are to patients with a wide array of acute pathology that includes:

    • Liver transplant service

    • Stroke Center

    • Heart center with EKG transmission to Cardiology via smartphone and cardiac catheterization lab availability 24 hours

    • Medical control for an EMS department that receives 120,000 calls annually

    • Receiving hospital for Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)

    • New Jersey Poison Information & Education System (NJ Poison Control)

  • We are a large pediatric tertiary care center:

    • Pediatric ED with over 19,000 visits annually

    • PICU, NICU

  • University Hospital is the primary teaching site for Rutgers Health/NJMS

    • Mandatory clerkship for 4th year students

    • Residents have opportunities to serve as teachers and mentors for a variety of medical school courses

  • An established program that continues to evolve

    • We cherish and incorporate resident input

    • Monthly Resident-Resident, as well as Resident-Faculty/Program Leadership meetings to discuss concerns, ideas and future directions of the program

    • Residents are active contributors to the curriculum, and resident input is sought after every rotation

    • Residents participate in administrative meetings and committees

Our program has excellent faculty, outstanding facilities, and challenging patients that provide a strong foundation in Emergency Medicine. Take a look at our program and we look forward to meeting you.

Beyond Academics

It’s no secret that today’s training necessitates a complete approach to personal and team growth. Take a look at some of the ways we strive to enhance the way we stay the course.

  • Rutgers NJMS has a tradition of commitment to diversity and has fostered a spirit of inclusiveness for its highly diverse community, faculty, staff, and students. Our mission is to develop individuals underrepresented in medicine and other health professions, as well as to champion cultural awareness, community service, and humanism in all aspects of medical education. We at NJMS are resolutely responding to the need for a diverse healthcare workforce that resembles the diversity of today’s patients. For further details of institutional efforts related to diversity please visit our Office for Diversity & Community Engagement.

    Our residency program and department is not only supportive of these institutional efforts, but is intentional in diversifying our department. Our residency is comprised of approximately 47% women and 21% URiM, while our department has approximately 53% women faculty members and 13% URiM.

    Additionally, at Rutgers Health/NJMS and University Hospital Newark, our goal is develop individuals underrepresented in medicine (UiM), as well as to champion cultural competency, community service, and humanism in all aspects of medical education. We specifically aim to foster the education and inclusion of physicians from groups represented in our patient base, which is over 50% African American, over 35% Hispanic, with many Spanish-speakers and a significant portion - approximately 8 percent - Portuguese speaking. To that end, we have implemented a program to specifically support the needs and growth of students from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in medicine. Further details on this program can be found by clicking here..

  • It is our firm belief that personal wellness is paramount for a good residency experience. This not only means conducting wellness activities, but also helping build an infrastructure that provides support to residents. Click here to learn more about it.

  • One of the fantastic things about our program is the diversity of its surrounding communities. Residents are free to choose from any of the surrounding areas which range from quiet suburban neighborhoods to the bustling life of downtown Manhattan. Click here to check out some of the locations of where our residents currently reside.