Virtua Program

Program Identity & Fit

Virtua's Internal Medicine Residency is a newly established program anchored at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, a tertiary referral center in Camden, NJ, uniquely positioned as South Jersey's only kidney/liver/pancreas transplant center, giving residents exposure to complex hepatology, nephrology, and transplant medicine alongside routine inpatient general medicine. The program is built on a new academic affiliation with Rowan University (Virtua Health College of Medicine and Life Sciences), signaling an intent to grow research and simulation infrastructure, though the curriculum itself is a standard three-year ICU/ward/night-float/ambulatory rotation structure without named tracks or distinctive electives. Virtua's institutional identity is heavily oriented toward community health equity and safety-net outreach in Camden and Burlington Counties (food access, mobile health units, transportation and financial assistance programs), suggesting the program values residents comfortable working with underserved, complex, and psychosocially challenged populations. Career preparation is explicitly framed as broad, supporting both fellowship subspecialization and independent general practice, without evidence of a strong research mandate or fellowship pipeline given the program's inaugural status.