Robert Wood Johnson Medical School At-a-Glance

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Founded in 1962, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is an academic unit of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the state’s university of the health sciences.

The medical school originally was formed as Rutgers Medical School through a grant from the Kellogg Foundation.

The medical school encompasses 22 basic science and clinical departments and six major institutes at its three campuses and integrates diverse clinical programs conducted at hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the state.

• The Class of 2013 had the highest MCAT scores in biological sciences in the history of RWJMS and more than half are women, 56 percent. Four of the first-year students were also admitted to the MD/PhD program.
  
• The 156 members of the first-year class were selected from an applicant pool of more than 3,300, the largest ever. Twenty-three percent graduated from Ivy League schools, and 20 percent are graduates of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. They were born in 21 different nations; more than half of the class are natives of New Jersey. They have served in global health settings in 18 different countries worldwide.
  
• The medical school has more than 2,800 full-time, part-time and volunteer faculty members.
  
• RWJMS provides charitable clinical care to indigent patients at an estimated cost of $38 million annually.
  
• Clinical income for RWJMS in FY 2007 exceeded $151 million.
  
• RWJMS sponsors 45 graduate medical education programs, 41 are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and four either by Speciality Boards or without the option of accreditation.
  
• The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) manages more than 80,000 patient visits each year. In addition, over 15,000 cancer patients are diagnosed and treated annually at one of CINJ's network hospitals across New Jersey.
  
• The Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group (RWJMG), the medical school’s multi-specialty group practice, is the largest in New Jersey, with more than 500 physicians providing care in 200 specialties. RWJMG physicians provide clinical care at numerous hospitals and ambulatory care sites throughout the state. More than one million patient visits and medical procedures are performed annually.
  

• RWJMS received $109 million in research grant awards in FY 2008. Of this amount, $49.9 million was from the National Institutes of Health.

• In 2008, the Eric B. Chandler Health Center, a federally qualified health center owned by the medical school, had nearly 57,000 patient visits. It is the only family health center of its kind in New Jersey that is supported by a medical school. The center provides a variety of medical and social services at a single site regardless of patients’ ability to pay.
  
  
  Additional 2009 Statistics
  

  MD Students PhD Students MD/PhD Students Residents & Fellows Faculty Alumni

  680 207 35 436 2,814 4,524