Rutgers Health-Jersey City Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a Rutgers-affiliated, community-based university program of four years and twelve residents, training in Jersey City—one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the country—with subspecialty exposure to Maternal Fetal Medicine, Gynecologic Oncology, REI, Genetics, and Urogynecology faculty. Clinical training spans two sites, Jersey City Medical Center and Clara Maass Medical Center, with a structured 13-rotation, four-week block curriculum that builds from general obstetrics/gynecology and ambulatory care toward subspecialty-heavy PGY-3/4 years. The program explicitly states its goal is producing physicians equipped for clinician, educator, researcher, and leadership roles, and graduates enter both general OB/GYN practice (academic and private) and subspecialty fellowships, indicating a dual-track career orientation rather than a single dominant path. Resident composition draws heavily from regional MD and DO schools (Rutgers, Hackensack Meridian, LECOM, Touro, Idaho COM), suggesting comfort with osteopathic applicants and a regional/Northeast training pipeline.