There, residents are responsible for examination, evaluation, and treatment of medically ill children. Teaching is accomplished through daily rounds and conferences with pediatricians who are also residency faculty members. This experience is performed under the supervision of program-affiliated surgical faculty. Residents also perform same-day surgery procedures at Mountainside Hospital and ambulatory surgical care with the offices of local surgeons. Under the guidance of specially-trained emergency department physicians at Mountainside Hospital, the family practice residents treat victims of physical and psychological trauma, acute illness and other emergencies.
Residents learn about the latest advances in mobile intensive care and acute medical care.
During the second year, the residents' education becomes more specialized. Two half-days per week are spent in the Family Practice Center. The second-year resident also spends a full month in the Family Practice Center, caring for a variety of patients. In addition, nursing home visits are made with faculty geriatricians. As residents near the completion of training and prepare to enter into their own practices, the program emphasizes administrative management techniques.