Applications from nonresidents are accepted. During the first two years a thorough coverage of the basic medical sciences is implemented thorough a modified curriculum with departmental and integrated interdepartmental studies. A broad program of clinical correlation occurs in clinical sciences, physical diagnosis, psychiatry, public health, and preventive and community medicine are presented during the first two years of the curriculum. The third year is spent in rotations through all of the clinical departments. This is a closely supervised comprehensive endeavor in which the student acquires the basic knowledge and techniques of clinical medicine.
Instruction is carried out mainly in small groups and individual instruction.
The fourth year is devoted to advanced required work and elective programs. The required courses are emergency medicine, neurology, an acting internship, and the practice of medicine course, which brings together the ethical, legal. and social factors that are part of total patient care. A curriculum task force is now in the process of implementing significant changes in our curriculum to make these years a continuum of education. This revision provides more flexibility for students to select the order of their clinical rotations and will include a clerkship in family medicine. This is consistent with NJMS's commitment to emphasize primary care specialties.