Residency Program Director's Message

Jo-Ann Reteguiz, M.D.
Vice-Chair for Education
Program Director

I would like to congratulate you on making the decision to become an Internist. The next step in the process is to choose a residency program in which you will thrive and develop the lifelong skills you will need to succeed. The New Jersey Medical School Internal Medicine Residency Program is committed to education. Our housestaff benefits from very close resident-faculty interactions, bedside teaching (we are experts in physical diagnosis), and a strong group of fellow residents who enjoy what they are doing and who like interacting closely with each other.

One of our strengths is the very active Education Committee, which is charged to identify ways to continuously improve the quality of our educational programs. Because of ideas generated from this committee, our program has developed a mentoring system and workshops in transitioning to the PGY-2 year, learning to teach students, and how to apply and attain fellowships successfully.

We are a program, which believes that humanism and professionalism are just as important as fund of knowledge and research. We believe in the importance of family and quality of life. This led us to discontinue overnight call on the floors and to allow residents a weekday off instead of just weekend days off. Patients expect that their physicians possess important personal attributes as well as textbook knowledge. We feel that we accomplish this in our training of residents.

I strongly urge you to consider the UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School as a place to acquire superb internal medicine graduate training in a nurturing and comfortable environment. Our goal is to fulfill all of your educational needs. We will develop you into a mature, confident, humanistic, knowledgeable Internist prepared for clinical practice, fellowship, or academic medicine. You will find the training experiences and the education at NJMS outstanding preparation for your future career. We welcome the opportunity to meet you and show you our state-of-the-art facilities. We look forward to receiving your application.