Ob/Gyn Residency Program at
Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Residency Objectives

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Saint Barnabas Medical Center is pleased to provide a postgraduate medical education residency-training program in obstetrics, gynecology, related specialties, and primary care medicine for women. Our program was established in 1970 by Dr. James L. Breen, former president of ACOG, who chaired our department until his retirement in 2001. Our program is, and always has been, fully accredited by The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education through the Residency Review Committee for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

John A. Kindzierski, MD

The residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Saint Barnabas Medical Center is a four-year parallel program. The obstetrical and gynecologic divisions of the service are the largest in New Jersey. The Saint Barnabas Medical Center is a regional referral center for high-risk obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and urogynecology.

The philosophical objectives of our program are to:

• Educate and train residents to be the best possible providers of health care for women for obstetrics, gynecology, and primary care.
• Provide residents with a subspecialty-derived educational breadth and depth that will allow them to be effective consultants in their medical communities.
• Provide residents with the necessary education to enable them to function as primary care/primary contact physicians for women throughout their adolescent, reproductive, and post-reproductive years.
• Instill and foster a spirit of mutual respect and work ethic, camaraderie and teamsmanship, among the residents themselves and among the residents, attending physicians, faculty, and program director in all clinical and administrative situations.
• Offer opportunities for residents to develop professional, ethical and leadership skills that can be used during their residency and practice years for the betterment of all concerned.
• Qualify residents to become board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Fellows in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
• Impart a desire for life-long continuing medical education and, if applicable a willingness to assist in the education and training of new generations of medical students and residents.      

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