Cooper Medical School of Rowan University-Cooper University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cooper's Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Program is a small, single-resident-per-year, academically-affiliated program based at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ, South Jersey's leading academic medical center. Training combines a five-year structure (six-month intern ENT block plus four years of specialty training) with a large combined faculty base—Cooper physicians plus Advanced ENT, the largest ENT group practice in New Jersey—yielding substantial general and subspecialty surgical volume across open, endoscopic, microscopic, and robotic techniques. The program explicitly supports both private practice and academic medicine trajectories, requires at least one resident research project with protected research time, and offers access to a regenerative medicine laboratory for residents inclined toward surgeon-scientist development. Distinctive features include a structured weekly multidisciplinary tumor board, quality improvement and mock oral board curricula, and an active international mission trip program (Pakistan, Philippines, Nigeria), signaling value placed on global surgical service alongside clinical rigor.