Residency training is centered at Morristown Memorial Hospital
where 85 percent of residents' time is spent. Residents receive
close supervision from faculty while in the department. It is our
philosophy that residents learn best by receiving the guidance
they need to avoid making mistakes, rather than by learning from
their mistakes.
The First Year
Residents spend much of their first year on inpatient services
learning basic patient management skills. Five months are spent
in the Emergency Department. Residents spend one month on the
trauma service, one month on general surgery, one month on
surgical icu, one month on internal medicine, one month on
pediatrics and two months on ccu/icu.
The Second Year
Second year residents concentrate on learning individual patient
management skills in the Emergency Department. Five months are
spent in the emergency department at Morristown and one month in
the pediatric emergency department at University Hospital at New
Jersey Medical School in Newark. Residents participate as members
of the trauma team for two months at University Hospital in
Newark. One month is spent in the pediatric ICU in
Morristown, one month as supervising CCU resident at Morristown,
and one month in obstetrics at University Hospital. One month is
spent on toxicology.
The Third Year
The third year resident spends most of the year in the Emergency
Department where he or she learns to manage multiple patients.
Nine months are spent in the ED at Morristown. The third year
resident also spends one month in the pediatric emergency
department at University Hospital, one month in EMS/emergency
medicine administration, and one month on elective.
See Block Rotation table.