The Newark Beth Israel Medical Center EM Residency is accredited by both the ACGME and AOA. Historically, the NBIMC AOA program began in 1993. In 1995-1996 it merged with the AOA accredited program at Union Hospital that had been established in 1980 to create a single osteopathic program. Allopathic (ACGME) accreditation was obtained in 1998.
As of 2012, the osteopathic program, which is four years, will be partnering with Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) in East Meadow, NY. NUMC is a tertiary care Trauma level 1 hospital with extensive specialty training including, trauma, burn, and neurosurgery. The osteopathic interns (OGME1) will be training mostly at NUMC with 8 weeks of emergency medicine at Newark Beth Israel and continue with the emergency training at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center as OGME 2.
All residents rotate at all the affiliated hospitals but spend the majority of their clinical time at NBIMC. Off-service rotations in trauma are conducted at Newark's UMDNJ-University Hospital and at Jersey City Medical Center. The toxicology rotation takes place at the New York Poison Control Center in Manhattan. Monmouth Medical Center serves as a site for EMS rotation. Multiple sites provide the residents with a socioeconomic and demographic variety, while broadening their clinical exposure.
The goals of the emergency medicine residency are to provide a supportive environment that encourages the acquisition of knowledge and develops the clinical judgment and skills needed to practice state of the art emergency medicine. The department encourages the development of compassionate physicians who have a sense of responsibility to the community and to their profession.
The department considers an environment of scholarly inquiry to be an essential part of residency training. Residents are encouraged to engage in research and initiate their own projects with supervision by EM faculty and leadership from the program's research director and vice-chair for academic affairs.
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