Rutgers Health-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

Rutgers/RWJMS Urology is a high-volume, academic tertiary-care program built around complex oncologic and reconstructive surgery, with a robotic and minimally-invasive surgical caseload spanning radical prostatectomy, cystectomy, partial/radical nephrectomy, and PCNL. Residents rotate across a spectrum of clinical intensities and practice models - from the tertiary academic center at RWJUH, to a busy community-based private-practice service at Somerset with a paired PGY-2/PGY-4 structure, to a high-volume private practice exposure at Princeton - giving graduates comfort in both academic and community operative environments. A protected six-month PGY-3 research block, tied to close collaboration with the NCI-designated Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, signals genuine institutional investment in resident-driven research with expectations of national presentation and publication. The program explicitly frames its outcome as producing chiefs (two years of PGY-4/PGY-5 chief-level responsibility) prepared equally for academic or private practice careers, valuing graduated autonomy, high case volume, and mentored subspecialty research interest.