Dear Colleague,
I appreciate your taking time to visit our website. My associates
and I hope to have the opportunity to present and discuss
our program with you. Ours is an academically-oriented program
emphasizing a scholarly approach to contemporary clinical
internal medicine in a lovely setting at a nationally distinguished
medical center. Our residency has flourished in recent years
and is increasingly recognized for its quality and excellence.
We are proud of our achievements during this difficult time
in medicine.
Let me highlight some items which reflect this, and which
may be of interest to you. A recent survey ranked ours the
13th best medical center in the nation. We had 12 programs
reviewed and ranked in the recent annual US News
and World Report issue on hospitals. There were
8 SBMC programs in the top 200 (Neurology/Neurosurgery; Kidney
Disease; Digestive Disorders; Cancer; Ear, Nose, and Throat;
Geriatrics; Urology; and Heart and Heart Surgery), 5 in the
top 100 (Neurology/Neurosurgery, Kidney Disease, Digestive
Disorders, Cancer, and Ear, Nose, and Throat) and 1
(Neurology/Neurosurgery) in the top 50. It is noteworthy
that 8 of these programs reflected internal medicine and
its specialties (Neurology, Renal, Oncology, GI, Pulmonary,
Cardiology, and Endocrinology. We consistently receive laudatory
evaluations from the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Our invitation from the Residency Review Committee (RRC)
of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
to participate in their novel, ambitious educational innovation
projects placed us among a select top 21 programs nationwide.
Our residents continue to perform far above average on the
certifying examination of the American Board of Internal
Medicine with a 100% pass rate with an average performance
at the 8th decile. Our residents continue to score in the
upper third on the national in-training examination, improving
their performance each year overall and relative to their
national peers. Our residents do superb clinical research;
they have written over several hundred abstracts
or manuscripts since 1990, with a distinguished record of
award-winning and featured presentations at regional and
national scientific sessions and in the media, including
annual scientific sessions of the NJ chapter of the American
College of Physicians, where we again last year received
their award for the best presentation with an opportunity
to proceed to the national competition. Our residents have
won the NJ state championship of the ACP knowledge-based,
jeopardy-like Challenge Bowl for all state programs an unprecedented
6 of 8 years, including 4 years in a row. Our graduates have
been offered wonderful highly competitive fellowship and
practice opportunities. Our faculty are comprised of dedicated,
gifted, full-time clinical-educators. We are re-establishing
our fellowship programs. We have added a stroke neurologist
and intensivists who have immensely enriched our educational
activities. Our relatively new, large beautifully appointed
clinical/ambulatory care space is a model ambulatory care
facility, and our resident center (lounge) is newly- relocated
and refurbished. We are excited about plans to develop a
home care program, a patient-centered medical home, to take
our emphasis on teaching to a higher level, to expand our
fellowship programs, to create greater respect for professionalism,
among other initiatives, and to continue our
exciting, successful, and nationally-recognized humanities-based
educational innovation. Some of you ask what I consider our
program’s strengths; they are a great group of residents
who are intellectually curious, committed to learning and
good people, a young enthusiastic energetic faculty
dedicated to teaching, and our unqiue thematic
identity for medical humanities/humanistic care; these create
an intimate, conducive, collegial, nurturing, and very
special educational atmosphere at an outstanding clinical
center where learning together is fun.
We are excited indeed confident about the future success of
our program and hope we conveyed this to you during your visit
to our website. All of us extend to you our best wishes for
the calendar year. We wish you the best for your future; may
you achieve all your dreams.
Sincerely yours,
Richard S. Panush, M.D.
Professor and Chair
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