"No greater responsibility or obligation can fall
on the lot of a human being than to become a physician.
In the care of the suffering, he needs technical skill,
scientific knowledge and human understanding. He who uses
these with courage, with humility and with wisdom provides
a unique service for his fellow man and will build an enduring
edifice of character within himself. The physician should
ask of his destiny no more than this; he should be content
with ho less." E.A. Stead, Jr., M.D.
The Internal Medicine Program at Saint Barnabas Medical
Center is committed to teaching graduate physicians enduring
principles and skills necessary to practice Internal Medicine
in a changing environment.
Medicine is humane science. An
exciting specialty, Internal Medicine is undergoing enormous
change. We at Saint Barnabas welcome this challenge. Internists
and medical subspecialists care for patients with diverse
problems. Confronted by an array of new illnesses, we devise
new approaches, new therapies, and new paradigms. The future
of medicine will be the humane clinical application -- to
both diagnosis and therapy -- of new insights derived from
advances in biotechnology. As internists, we are committed
to the highest standards of patient care, self-education,
and teaching. We aspire to be knowledgeable, thoughtful,
responsive, ethical, and compassionate in today's complex
world and to prepare for and adapt to tomorrow's changes.
We offer to share in the predicament of others. We seek wisdom
when certainty is elusive. We attempt to preserve the best
of our traditions in medicine and to develop new strengths
in order to successfully meet the future.
The Department
of Medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical Center is at the forefront
of these developments. We are New Jersey's largest hospital
-- a distinguished multispecialty institution -- with internationally
recognized physician/scientists on our staff of nearly 1,500
physicians. We are a major teaching hospital affiliated with
the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New
Jersey Medical School. The Internal Medicine residency is
one of 7 residency programs and has 36 residents. We are
part of New Jersey's largest health care system -- The Saint
Barnabas Health Care System -- which has 3,391 acute care
beds, more than 22,300 employees, ten hospitals, seven other
facilities, more than 4,000 physicians, more than 443 residents,
and which offers unequalled specialized services.
Our 633-bed
hospital is situated on a lovely 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. In medicine we have
state-of-the-art centers of excellence in rheumatic and musculoskeletal
diseases, renal and transplantation medicine, endocrinology
and diabetology, oncology, cardiovascular diseases, neurology,
memory disorders, and complementary and alternative (integrative)
medicine. Saint Barnabas is proud of its esteemed Internal
Medicine and medical subspecialty programs and of our outstanding
faculty.
The Department of Medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical
Center blends the traditional strengths of community and
academic medicine in an exciting and contemporary manner.
The Medical Center utilizes state of the art technology and
scientific knowledge to provide quality care in a very modern
facility. We are poised to care for our patients in the coming
years and to prepare our graduate physicians for the future
practice of medicine in our society. The Medical Center enjoys
an excellent location, outstanding facilities, expert staff, dedicated teachers,
imaginative leadership, and a diverse patient population. It offers a congenial
but challenging environment, a scholarly approach to medicine, academic milieu,
and superb residents and attending staff.
Residents think this is a good place
to train. Application inquiries continue to increase and
number in the thousands annually. We have an excellent group
of residents and an outstanding faculty who provide mentoring, support, and encouragement
for our residents. All our residents conduct clinical research and have a distinguished
record of presentations, publications, peer recognition, and awards. We continually
add highly qualified new faculty to our full-time Department staff. In difficult
times for medicine, our program has thrived. We consistently fill all our residency
positions from the upper echelon of candidates. Our residents exceed national
averages on the in-training and certifying examinations of the American Board
of Internal Medicine each year and secure wonderful postgraduate opportunities,
ranging from positions at Harvard Medical School to local practice opportunities.
Ours is a recently changed, reinvigorated program with strong leadership and
vision. Ours is a program that balances community-based education and traditional
academic values. Ours is a Department and Medical Center with nationally recognized
programs and leaders in specialty fields. Ours is a program which has long asserted
the philosophy that our residency is an educational -- not a service -- experience.
Ours is a program that is flexible in developing imaginative new programs --
including our unique medical humanities program, expanded ambulatory care
opportunities, circumscribing inpatient coverage, offering more and different
electives (such as one in Katmandu), developing rotations in " real-life" medicine,
and increasingly emphasizing primary care medicine. We are a program of moderate
size that fosters collegiality and intimacy between attending and resident staff.
And we believe that medicine should be fun; our annual April Fools Day Grand
Rounds (we have debated "the medicinal value of chicken soup vs. the pork
sausage"), bowling night, basketball games, and movie rounds, for example,
are important aspects of our program.
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