Rutgers Health-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

Rutgers/RWJMS Family Medicine is a university-based, academically-oriented program built around a single continuity site (Family Medicine at Monument Square) and a Level 1 trauma center teaching hospital, serving a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse New Brunswick population spanning FQHC-served uninsured patients to well-insured suburban families. The small 5-5-5 structure emphasizes high faculty-to-resident ratios, side-by-side attending precepting, and six optional Fellowship Tracks (Community Health, Sports Medicine, Reproductive Health, Geriatrics, Addiction Medicine, Dermatology) that let roughly half of residents pursue subspecialty depth within family medicine. Every resident completes a peer-reviewed Evidence-Based Medicine publication, reflecting a structured primary-care research expectation layered onto a program whose stated outcomes are explicitly heterogeneous—private practice, academic medicine, fellowship, hospitalist work, and policy/industry. Distinctive features include an FQHC rotation (Eric B. Chandler), integrated behavioral health, night-float continuity coverage, and an "opposed" training environment giving exposure to subspecialty fellows and attendings.