Hackensack Meridian Health-JFK University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, community-based internal medicine program at Raritan Bay Medical Center (JFK University Medical Center-sponsored, part of Hackensack Meridian Health) with a primary care mission, training only eight residents per year in an urban, safety-net setting serving Perth Amboy and its international patient base. The program leans on hospital-based clinical infrastructure (primary stroke center, PCI-capable cardiac catheterization labs, 20-bed ICU/CCU) and interdisciplinary teams to give broad-based exposure, while explicitly framing itself around "personalization" - customizing resident trajectories toward primary care, fellowship, administration, population health, or academics rather than pushing a single pathway. Research is not structurally central but is acknowledged as a valued differentiator, and the program highlights its affiliation with the newly founded Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine as a growing academic resource. Its small size is presented as an asset for close faculty-resident relationships and flexible, individualized mentorship rather than for high subspecialty procedural volume.