Our main focus is on EDUCATION, not service. While the cornerstone of our program is the Med-Peds Practice, residents take full advantage of the learning opportunities in the individual departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. While rotating through the inpatient wards and ambulatory clinics, our residents are viewed as "equals" with our pediatric and medicine resident colleagues.

The inpatient services of both departments are run on a team concept. Each team consists of one attending, one senior resident, 2 or 3 interns, and 3 medical students from New Jersey Medical School. Information exchange is constant as education happens at all levels.

Med/Peds Grand Rounds

Monthly Grand Rounds in Med-Peds focus on disease entities which span the ages. Typical discussions focus on topics such as Non-insulin dependent diabetes in youth and adults, treating survivors of childhood hematologic malignancies, and health maintenance dilemmas for children and adults. These conferences offer an excellent opportunity to have the entire Med-Peds residency together for the discussion of Med-Peds clinical dilemmas. Each Grand Rounds talk is prepared by a resident, either in the form of a formal lecture or through invited guest speakers.

Departmental Grand Rounds

Weekly Grand Rounds in Medicine and Pediatrics invite faculty from both within and outside of UMDNJ to discuss topics of academic interest.

Morning Report

Both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics hold daily morning reports which focus on admissions from the Emergency Department as well as outpatient cases from subspecialty clinics.

Noon Conference

Each department also holds daily noon conferences on a "theme of the month" principle, meaning that, for example, all lectures within a month are on cardiology. This creates more focused learning in anticipation of specialty boards at the end of residency. At the end of each month, residents take a written quiz with board-type questions, in an effort to provide feedback on which areas of the subspecialty are mastered and which need more work.

Multidisciplinary Rounds

In both medicine and pediatrics, multidisciplinary rounds include tumor boards and ethics rounds.

Radiology Rounds

In both medicine and pediatrics, radiology rounds are held weekly in which imaging from in-patients are reviewed with an attending radiologist.

National Meetings

Residents have the opportunity to attend national meetings of the AAP, ACIM, NMPRA, and subspecialty associations. If a resident is first author for either a poster or oral presentation at a conference, Graduate Medical Education funds the travel expenses.

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