Hackensack Meridian Health-Palisades Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, community-based, non-university-affiliated family medicine residency within the Hackensack Meridian Health network, operating as an opposed program that shares institutional resources with other residencies at Palisades Medical Center. Training centers on comprehensive, continuity-based outpatient primary care across adult medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology, serving the North Bergen/NYC-metro area including a substantial Latino patient population. Graduate outcomes are overwhelmingly outpatient primary care and private practice in the NJ/NY region, with occasional academic teaching interest and rare fellowship pursuit (e.g., addiction medicine, surgical obstetrics); research is not emphasized. The program explicitly values a tight-knit, family-like resident culture, communication skills, and patient-centered continuity of care over academic or subspecialty ambition.