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Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Sends 160 New Physicians to Hospitals Nationwide
Laughter, tears and shrieks of joy erupted at noon on Friday, March 16, on the New Brunswick and Camden campuses of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) moments after 160 medical students opened envelopes that contained their futures. Today was Match Day across the United States, the day when thousands of medical students discover where they will spend their years of residency training following their upcoming graduation. Once again, RWJMS’ match rate of 100 percent exceeded the national average of 95 percent.
In New Brunswick, there are 116 students graduating in 2012. In Camden, there are 44 students graduating in 2012.
Of the 160 graduating students, 43 matched to programs in New Jersey and of these, 30 students matched to UMDNJ programs.
NRMP PRIMARY CARE MATCHES
Internal Medicine 36
Family Practice 14
Pediatrics 17
SUBTOTAL 67 - 42%
OB/GYN 9
TOTAL 76 - 48%
Eighteen percent of our graduates will be surgeons and five percent general surgeons. Twenty-two of our graduates will train at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, our principal affiliate hospital. Graduating students from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School also will attend residency programs at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Yale, Columbia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Northwestern and the University of California at San Francisco.
About UMDNJ-ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL
As one of the nation’s leading comprehensive medical schools, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school’s principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey’s premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.
As one of the eight schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with 2,800 full-time and volunteer faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 22 basic science and clinical departments, hosts centers and institutes including The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Camden, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs. To learn more about UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, log on to rwjms.umdnj.edu. Find our fan page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @UMDNJ_RWJMS.
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