Curriculum & Training
Learn more about the rotations, didactics and additional education opportunities available within the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Jefferson Health in New Jersey.
Our program annual schedule changed in academic year 24-25 to a 4+1 X+Y, format. 4 weeks are spent on rotations and 1 week is spent at an ambulatory longitudinal clinic at Jefferson Voorhees Primary Care. Rotations range from core requirements (Medicine, ICU, Night Float) to selectives and electives. Inpatient rotations are located primarily at Jefferson Washington Township Hospital and Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital. In PGY2 year, residents do a cardiology rotation at Deborah Heart and Lung Center. Selectives/electives are also located in inpatient locations and among many local outpatient offices affiliated with Jefferson, Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes, and private groups.
Residents take 12 hour in-house calls on the weekends. Frequency depends on rotation and PGY level. PGY1s take call on medicine night float. PGY2/3s take call on medicine night float and ICU night float.
The Jefferson Voorhees Primary Care office is the location of our longitudinal ambulatory care. Residents develop longitudinal relationships with their panel of patients as they follow their care throughout their residency training. There is a total of 10 weeks of ambulatory Y weeks in one year. In each year, residents are able to turn two of these weeks to subspecialty selective weeks based on their future career interests.
Residents have the unique opportunity to treat a combination of rural, suburban and urban populations that are diverse in age, cultures and economic standing.
We offer countless opportunities to increase knowledge and improve skills throughout your residency. Faculty and residents play an active role in presentations and are encouraged to attend SOM conferences and didactics, as well as additional opportunities that suit individual medical interests. Residents have protected time to attend didactics.
- Daily morning reports
- Weekly Thursday didactic session from 2-5PM
- Core lecture series for first 6 weeks of residency
- Ultrasound workshop
- OMM practical workshop semi-annually
- GME grand rounds monthly, OMM focused
- Hands on procedure workshop, semi-annually
- Monthly journal clubs
- Monthly M&M conference
- Pulmonary path, palliative rounds, tumor board, neurology conference
Our program offers a range of well-funded and robust research opportunities. We focus on quality improvement initiatives and projects. Residents are involved with the Housestaff Safety and Quality Leadership Council and the Resident Research Committee, which is a cornerstone for residents to go to for ideas/suggestions and obtain faculty support on a variety of types of clinical research.
The Research Chief helps coordinate and support research initiatives throughout the program. In addition, our Research Steering Committee can help you learn and participate in institutional level research. You may also become involved with many different hospital-level and program-level committees. This gives you the opportunity to learn system-based practice and how to be integrated in a healthcare system, beyond clinical rotations. Residents have also worked hard on publishing through different journals throughout their residency.
Other highlights:
- Annual research stipend to attend conferences for each PGY year
- 2-week research selective option
- Group research projects
- Quality improvement projects
- Onsite access to library resources through Rowan-SOM
Conferences we have attended:
- The American College of Physicians National Conference (ACP)
- The American College of Osteopathic Internists Convention (ACOI)
- The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
- The American College of Cardiology (ACC)
- The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST)
- Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)
- Rowan-SOM Research Day
- Jefferson Quality Research Day
Mentorship between peer residents and faculty are an important facet in the growth of a resident through their career. At Jefferson Health in New Jersey, we have several mentorship opportunities. Residents are split into 4 cohorts with the Associate Program Directors to facilitate more open communication and mentorship through program leadership.
- Big Brother, Big Sister Program – to help with PGY1 transition. Starts on day you match!
- APD Cohort Mentorship
- IM Women committee
- Resident-Faculty mentorship
- Cardiology
- Critical Care
- Pulmonary/Critical Care
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Infectious Disease
- Nephrology
- Cardiology
- Lourdes Cardiology
- Cooper University Hospital, NJ
- Deborah Heart & Lung Center, NJ
- Endocrinology
- Cooper University Hospital, NJ
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Pulmonary/Critical Care/Critical Care
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, NY
- Nassau University Medical Center, NY
- Infectious Disease
- Jefferson Health in Center City
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Temple University Hospital
- Nephrology
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Stony Brook University Hospital, NY
- Montefiore Einstein, NY
- Lehigh Valley Health Network, PA
- Geriatrics
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, PA
- Gastroenterology
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Kent Hospital, RI
- Palliative Care
- Jefferson Center City
- University of Texas Southwestern, TX
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Hospitalist/Nocturnist Placement
- Jefferson Health in New Jersey
- Jefferson Health in the Northeast (Aria Health), Philadelphia, PA
- Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
- Atlanticare, Atlantic City, NJ
- Crozer Chester Hospital, Chester, PA
- Inspira Medical Center, Vineland, NJ
- Clara Mass, Belleville, NJ
- Christiana Care, Newark, DE
- Long Island Comprehensive Medical Center, Babylon, NY
- Peconic Bay, Long Island, NY
- Cape May Regional Medical Center, Cape May, NJ
- Naples Community Hospital, Naples, FL
- University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
- Orlando Regional Medical Center, FL
- Northeast Georgia Health Center, GA
- Annual in training exam
- Annual AMBOSS w/NEJM knowledge+ access
- Annual ACP membership
- Stipend provided for MKSAP or UWorld purchase in PGY2 and PGY3 years
- Board prep stipend as PGY3
- Annual travel stipend for conferences as presenter and attendee
- Annual education stipend