The UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

As one of eight schools that comprise UMDNJ, The UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) operates three campuses in Piscataway, New Brunswick and Camden. The medical school encompasses 21 basic science and clinical departments and also integrates diverse clinical programs conducted at its 34 hospital affiliates and numerous ambulatory care sites in the region.

In addition to its departments, the medical school has 85 institutes and centers including The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive care center in New Jersey), the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (dedicated to molecular medicine), the Clinical Research Center (a clinical pharmacology inpatient facility), and the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (the largest environmental health institute in the world).

Approximately 650 medical students are enrolled at RWJMS with 80% of them being New Jersey residents.  RWJMS has approximately 140 graduate students and 23 students in its MD/PhD program. In addition, being strongly committed to diversity, RWJMS is proud to rank among the top 10 percent nationally of medical schools in minority student enrollment. And because community health is a key priority at RWJMS, The Eric B. Chandler Health Center, a federally qualified health center is owned by the medical school—the only family health center of its kind in New Jersey supported by a medical school. The Center provides a variety of medical and social services at a single site regardless of patients’ ability to pay.