Rutgers Health-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-based academic EM program anchored at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the only Level 1 Trauma Center and tertiary/quaternary referral center in central New Jersey, with an adjacent freestanding children's hospital providing dedicated pediatric EM exposure. The three-year PGY1-3 curriculum is organized around a structured monthly organ-system core curriculum, simulation training, cadaver labs, mock oral boards, and a resident retreat, reflecting a traditional, education-heavy community-of-practice model rather than a niche-track structure. Research is present but still developing institutionally—the department is actively building out a formal Research Division and has only recently added dedicated research faculty, suggesting research is encouraged and resourced but not yet a mature, central pillar of resident training. The program has grown its class size to nine per year, added a sub-internship and a system-wide simulation fellowship, and draws a resident body heavily composed of DO and IMG graduates alongside US MD graduates, indicating a program that values broad clinical competence and steady, well-rounded generalist training over pedigree-driven selection.