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RWJMS Basic Science Buidling (1966), Piscataway, NJ

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (often abbreviated RWJMS) is one of eight schools that comprise the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).

RWJMS operates three campuses in New Jersey, in Piscataway, New Brunswick and Camden. The medical school includes 21 basic science and clinical departments and a broad range of clinical programs conducted at its 34 hospital affiliates and numerous ambulatory care sites in the region. The medical school’s newest departments are in the areas of Emergency Medicine, Ophthalmology, Radiation Oncology and Orthopaedic Surgery.

In addition to its departments, the medical school has 85 institutes and centers. The major centers and institutes affiliated with RWJMS include: The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive care center in New Jersey), the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (dedicated to molecular medicine), the Clinical Research Center (a clinical pharmacology inpatient facility), and the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (the largest environmental health institute in the world).

The medical school has more than 2,500 full-time, part-time and volunteer faculty and 2,530 staff members. Approximately 650 medical students are enrolled at RWJMS, 99% of whom are New Jersey residents. 48% are women and 18% of the enrolled students are underrepresented minorities. RWJMS ranks among the top 10 percent nationally of medical schools in minority student enrollment. RWJMS welcomed 142 students in the class of 2007 out of 2,498 applicants, which is 21% more applications received than the previous year and significantly above the national increase in applications of 5%. Incoming students’ GPA scores climbed to 3.63, the highest level in school history. For the first time, women constitute more than half the students in the incoming class at 54%. RWJMS has approximately 140 graduate students and 18 students in its MD/PhD program. RWJMS has approximately 500 residents in 34 accredited graduate medical education programs in the areas of anesthesia, occupational medicine, family medicine, medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology and surgery. Continuing medical education programs are conducted on a global basis.

RWJMS received nearly $120.5 million in research grant awards in FY 2003, ranking it among the top one-third of medical schools in the United States in terms of grant support per faculty member. RWJMS ranks 10th among 75 publicly funded medical schools in research grants per basic science faculty member and 23rd among 125 public and private medical schools; in terms of research grants per clinical faculty, RWJMS ranks 21st among 75 publicly funded medical schools and 40th among 125 public and private medical schools. Funding from the National Institutes of Health doubled over the last five years, to a total of $53.8 million in 2003.

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Association. The medical school is a full member of AAMC.

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

All education programs of UMDNJ have been approved by the academic, governmental and professional agencies with responsibilities in specific areas of specialization.

The primary and affiliated teaching hospitals of the medical school are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

• Robert Wood Johnson Medical School website