This is an ACGME and AOA dually accredited residency
program in Emergency Medicine that graduates 10 board-prepared
physicians per year, with total capacity for 30 residents. The
primary site for the residency is the Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center. St. Barnabas Medical Center serves as an affiliated emergency
department. All graduating residents are eligible for and expected
to take the certifying exam for the American Board of Emergency
Medicine.
The relationship with the academic affiliate, Mt.
Sinai School of Medicine, has deepened and grown. EM-1 residents
receive a detailed assessment at the MSSM Morchand Center. The
MSSM Levy Library may be accessed by all NBIMC EM residents via
the internet. Chief residents participate in the annual MSSM
chief residents program. EM chief residents and faculty participate
in the annual MSSM Department of Emergency Medicine annual academic
retreat.
Residents also train at the University of Medicine & Dentistry
of New Jersey (UMDNJ) University Hospital and Jersey City Medical
Center. This provides a diversity of training in various clinical
settings. Additionally, the toxicology rotation takes place at
the New York City Poison Control Center.
The emergency department at Newark Beth Israel
has an annual patient volume of approximately 89,000 visits.
This includes a separate pediatric emergency department with
approximately 30,000 visits. Physicians board-certified in pediatric
EM and/or EM staff the pediatric emergency department.
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is the largest integrated
health care delivery system in New Jersey with six acute care
hospitals, six nursing homes, five ambulatory care facilities,
three geriatric centers, a free-standing, 100-bed inpatient psychiatric
facility, and a state wide behavioral health network.
Services of the affiliated institutions include the following:
• New Jersey's only certified burn treatment facility
• One of New Jersey's two heart transplant centers and the
only lung transplant center in NJ
• Two of New Jersey's three renal and pancreas transplant
centers
• Joslin Center for Diabetes, an affiliate of the internationally
recognized Boston Center
• Comprehensive cancer services
• Renowned women and children's services.
A wide variety of educational opportunities are offered in undergraduate
medical education, and post-graduate training including fellowships
in numerous specialty areas. Medical research and public health
issues are also a priority for the Saint Barnabas Health Care
System.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is a 669-bed,
regional care, teaching hospital. Founded in 1901, it became
affiliated with the Saint Barnabas Health Care System in 1997.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center provides comprehensive health
care services to its local communities and is a major referral
and treatment center for patients throughout the northern New
Jersey metropolitan area.
The Medical Center is fully accredited by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the
American Osteopathic Association. Newark Beth Israel provides
services to approximately 25,000 inpatients and same day surgery
patients; 56,000 adult and 30,000 pediatric emergency room visits;
260,000 outpatient visits; and 3,000 births each year. There
are over 700 active physicians on staff.
The medical center is home to Children's Hospital
of New Jersey, the Heart Hospital of New Jersey, and the state's
first accredited Sleep Disorders Center. Cardiology services
at NBIMC include both diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization,
cardiac surgery, nationally recognized pacemaker/ electrophysiology
center, and was one of the ten busiest heart transplant programs
in the nation in 2005.
Additional services at the medical center include
the Center for Geriatric Health Care, the largest hospital-based
dental program in New Jersey, a kidney and pancreas transplant
program. Three is a comprehensive radiology program providing
on-site multi-slice CT scanning, MR imaging, ultrasound, nuclear
medicine, and interventional radiology.
Children's Hospital of New Jersey, based at NBIMC,
provides the full spectrum of pediatric inpatient and outpatient
services with nearly all subspecialty services. Highlights include
Neonatal & Pediatric Intensive Care Units, the Valerie Fund
Children's Center, and a Regional Perinatal Center.
Graduate Medical education is a priority at the
medical center with residencies in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics,
Combined Pediatrics/Internal Medicine, Surgery, Radiology, OB/GYN,
and Emergency Medicine. In addition fellowships are offered in:
Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Pulmonology, Critical
Care, Nephrology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, and
Vascular Surgery. Podiatry and ENT residents based at St. Barnabas
Medical Center cover NBIMC.
The medical center is affiliated with ten New Jersey
Nursing Schools and offers undergraduate and graduate programs
through Seton Hall University.
Notable Features of Newark Beth Israel Emergency
Services
The NBIMC Emergency Department includes state of the art monitoring
equipment, a computerized patient tracking, two major resuscitation
areas and an administrative suite.
All major ancillary and support services including cardiac catheterization
and coronary angioplasty are available around the clock. A CT
scanner is located immediately adjacent to the Emergency Department.
The Department of Emergency Medicine at Saint Barnabas
Medical Center is pleased to participate in the training of emergency
medicine residents. Our department sees almost 70,000 patients
annually with a wide variety of patient presentations. We practice
in a state-of-the-art physical plant with modern equipment. Emergency
medicine residents rotating here have the opportunity to work
with our physicians on a one-to-one basis and have found this
to be very valuable. Our healthcare team is dedicated to providing
the highest quality patient care and health education in the
community and to the region.
Saint Barnabas Medical Center is a 633-bed hospital
situated on a 65-acre tract of land in Livingston, New Jersey.
Saint Barnabas Medical Center is the oldest voluntary hospital
in New Jersey with over 125 years of dedicated service. Saint
Barnabas Medical Center admits more patients, delivers more babies,
provides care for more women, sees more burn patients, and does
more surgery than any other hospital in the state. The hospital
has state-of-the-art centers of excellence in rheumatic and musculoskeletal
diseases, renal and transplantation medicine, endocrinology,
oncology, cardiovascular diseases, neurology, memory disorders,
and complementary/ alternative medicine. The medical center is
also very proud of its new robotic surgery program that utilizes
the state of the art daVinci Robot.
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