Virtua Program

Program Identity & Fit

Virtua's Family Medicine Residency is a long-standing (est. 1977), community-based osteopathic-affiliated program in Voorhees, NJ, training family physicians to practice comprehensively across inpatient, outpatient, obstetric, and behavioral health settings for a population marked by significant social determinants of health, food insecurity, and underserved need across Camden, Burlington, and Gloucester counties. The program's identity centers on producing broadly competent, community-anchored family physicians rather than subspecialists: it offers three continuity-site options, a formal osteopathic manipulative medicine curriculum through its Rowan-Virtua SOM affiliation, and PGY-2 "specialized tracks" (Sports Medicine, Geriatrics, Faculty Development/Research, Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Community Medicine) that allow selective fellowship preparation without abandoning a generalist core. Research is present but structured as a required scholarly project rather than a driving institutional mission, and the explicit "real-world medicine"/practice-management curriculum and Virtua Medical Group employment pathway signal a strong orientation toward residents who intend to stay and practice locally after training. Distinctive features include a resident-built, daily precepting feedback system (Precept-Assist), a Community Medicine track built around a free clinic and pediatric mobile van, and near-guaranteed post-residency local employment for those who want it.