Hackensack Meridian Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Hackensack University Medical Center's Emergency Medicine Residency is a tertiary/quaternary academic program situated in the busiest ED in the New York Metro Area and flagship referral site for an 18-hospital network, producing exposure to high-acuity pathology such as transplant recipients, oncologic emergencies, high-mechanism trauma, and ED-initiated ECMO. Training emphasizes graduated autonomy within a broad-based curriculum featuring heavy critical care exposure (MICU, PICU, SICU rotations across all three years), dedicated toxicology and EMS blocks, and a community medicine rotation at Englewood Hospital to balance the tertiary-care default. Scholarly activity is structurally supported through a dedicated informatics team and fellowship-trained faculty mentors spanning toxicology, critical care, PEM, ultrasound, and EMS, with residents expected to convert ideas into research or systems-level projects presented nationally. The program explicitly frames its mission around producing leaders across academic medicine, fellowship subspecialization, and health system administration, valuing intellectual curiosity, self-directed learning, and scholarly contribution over passive knowledge consumption.