Rutgers Health-New Jersey Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a categorical four-year adult neurology program at Rutgers NJMS, built on a preliminary internal medicine year followed by three years split 60/40 between University Hospital (an urban safety-net academic center in Newark) and the East Orange VA, giving residents parallel exposure to a high-acuity underserved urban population and a veteran population managed through a fully integrated VA electronic health system. The curriculum emphasizes stroke neurology with graduated BAT (brain attack) call responsibility, night float, ED consult, pediatric neurology, and a broad elective menu (EEG/epilepsy, EMG/NCS, neuro-ophthalmology, endovascular neurology, neuropathology) that lets residents shape a subspecialty interest heading into PGY-4. Every resident completes a mentored, hypothesis-driven research project presented at an annual Research Day and typically at national/state neurology meetings, reflecting NJMS's broader NIH-funded neuroscience infrastructure, though this scholarly requirement functions as a structured expectation rather than a lab-embedded research track. The program's stated mission explicitly targets training for either academic medicine or "high-quality private practice," and situates itself within NJMS's institution-wide identity of serving Newark's medically underserved community regardless of ability to pay.