Hackensack Meridian Health-Jersey Shore University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Anesthesiology Residency is a community-based, university-affiliated program embedded within Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest health network, offering high clinical volume (over 37,000 anesthetics and 4,500+ obstetric deliveries annually) at a Level I adult and pediatric trauma center. The program emphasizes comprehensive clinical exposure across a three-year didactic cycle covering the full ABA content outline, with a faculty of 40 board-certified/eligible anesthesiologists, many fellowship-trained, supporting direct clinical mentorship rather than a heavily research-driven identity. A Director of Research position exists, indicating research is available and structured but not positioned as central to the program's mission, which instead foregrounds clinical excellence, patient safety, and service to a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse community population. The program trains a small categorical class (six residents), integrates closely with Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and St. George's University students, and appears to value clinically committed residents suited to high-volume, hands-on training within a large, growth-oriented health system.