Benefits

The following are highlights of the benefits offered by the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Salaries by Year for 2024-25 and 2025-26

Other Benefits

• All residents have access to health insurance, prescription drug program, dental care, disability insurance, and life insurance.


• Residents have the option to join the union, through which contracts are negotiated.


• In addition, newly hired residents are given $1,300.00 to attend resident orientation in June.


• Our scheduling system is designed to provide coverage in the event of sudden illness or personal emergency. Housestaff receive 4 weeks of vacation and are entitled to take up to 4 personal days and 12 sick days per year. Unused sick days can be rolled over to the next year.


• Daycare facilities are also available for housestaff at minimal cost.


• Financial coverage for national conferences attendance is provided for first authors presenting their research once per academic year.


• Housestaff can request an alternate day off or additional pay when working on a Rutgers University holiday.


• Bus shuttle from Medical School Building towards Newark and Newark Penn Station.


• Meal cards are provided for all three sites with a value of $25 for each call shift.

Educational Resources

• UpToDate and MD Consult are offered for free to the housestaff, as well as a database access to clinical guidelines. Full text journal articles are available


• Rutgers maintains contracts with several major national medical journals, which allows residents to publish free of charge


• Medical library resources available at all three institutions.


• Links to Micromedex, Lippincott, medical textbooks and full text journal articles are available at the East Orange VA.


• Residents are provided with a complete three-year curriculum; goals and objectives are distributed online at the start of each rotation.


• Residents are given access to Canvas, an online platform on which we post recorded lectures, curricula, and applicable literature and other educational materials.


• All residents will be assigned a senior resident mentor who will assist in their transition into residency, and provide support and guidance.