Residency Verification Requests

The Office of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School requires a $50.00* fee for all residency verifications and reference evaluations. This fee is necessary in order to recover costs associated with retrieval and processing verifications and references for housestaff who attended the Rutgers NJMS Internal Medicine Residency Program.

All requests for verifications must be submitted with a check or money order made payable to Rutgers NJMS Department of Medicine and mailed to the following address:

Department of Medicine / Office of Education
UH, Room I-248
New Jersey Medical School
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
150 Bergen Street
Newark, NJ 07103

In order to expedite verification and reference requests, please submit the following documents to the below address:

1. Written Request, including last name, first name, and social security number of physician and dates attended


2. Money order or personal check for $50.00* payable to Rutgers NJMS Department of Medicine


3. Signed, authorized release of information form from the physician


4. Self addressed, return envelope


5. Fax number, should you wish the form returned via fax

*Please note that graduates of less than one year are exempt from the $50 fee.

Follow-up requests should be sent either by mail with second request noted or by fax to 973-972-3129. All verifications will be sent out once payment is received; please allow 5-10 business days for processing each request.

Please call us at 973-972-6056 or email imresidency@njms.rutgers.edu should you have any questions or require additional information.