Welcome to Emergency Medicine at Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School!
The Emergency Medicine Residency at Rutgers Health/NJMS is a dynamic and innovative program. We provide excellent training for our residents in a high volume, high acuity, urban environment. Our residents gain experience at 3 sites: University Hospital in Newark, NJ, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ and in the PICU at Newark-Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, NJ.
- Inner-city, urban location
- Wide diversity of patients from many countries and cultures
- Wide diversity of pathology
- High volume of patients, with over 98,000 visits last year
- High acuity patients with an approximately 20% admission rate, including many to critical care units
- Thirty-bed Observation Unit staffed 24/7 by Nurse Practitioners
- Level 1 Trauma Center
- Over 6,000 trauma patients seen annually in our ED
- High volume of penetrating trauma, with an average of three victims of penetrating trauma treated daily
- Blunt and industrial trauma - close proximity to multiple highways, Newark airport and seaport and NYC
- Mobile ICU units and Northstar Helicopter based at University Hospital
- We are staffed with Trauma Surgery and most other surgical specialties in-house, 24/7
- We are a large tertiary care center that provides are to patients with a wide array of acute pathology that includes:
- Liver transplant service
- Stroke Center
- Heart center with EKG transmission to Cardiology via smartphone and cardiac catheterization lab availability 24 hours
- Medical control for an EMS department that receives 120,000 calls annually
- Receiving hospital for Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
- New Jersey Poison Information & Education System (NJ Poison Control)
- We are a large pediatric tertiary care center:
- Pediatric ED with over 16,000 visits annually
- PICU, NICU
- University Hospital is the primary teaching site for Rutgers Health/NJMS
- Mandatory clerkship for 4th year students
- Residents have opportunities to serve as teachers and mentors for a variety of medical school courses
- An established program that continues to evolve
- We cherish and incorporate resident input
- Monthly Resident-Resident, as well as Resident-Faculty/Program Leadership meetings to discuss concerns, ideas and future directions of the program
- Residents are active contributors to the curriculum, and resident input is sought after every rotation
- Residents participate in administrative meetings and committees
Our program has excellent faculty, outstanding facilities, and challenging patients that provide a strong foundation in Emergency Medicine. Take a look at our program and we look forward to meeting you.
