Hackensack Meridian Health-JFK University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

JFK University Medical Center's Family Medicine Residency is a community hospital-based, university-affiliated program in suburban central New Jersey, built around a robust Patient-Centered Medical Home (NCQA Level III) where residents manage their own continuity panel from day one across the full life-cycle of care, including obstetrics, geriatrics/long-term care, and adolescent and complex-patient clinics. The program is distinguished by being the sole primary care residency in its hospital (no competing residents for procedures or attendings), a newly ACGME-recognized osteopathic curriculum with four DO faculty and dedicated OMT clinic time for both MD and DO residents, and structured procedural/ambulatory training (colposcopy, IUD/Nexplanon placement, joint injections, point-of-care ultrasound, minor surgery). Research is embedded longitudinally (resident-driven projects presented at GME Research Day and regional academic meetings) but the program's stated outcomes emphasize graduates entering direct primary care practice, hospitalist medicine, or fellowship rather than academic research careers, and the culture explicitly foregrounds resident wellness, work-life balance, and biopsychosocial/behavioral health training via a dedicated behavioral scientist.