Message from the Dean

Please join me in congratulating the Class of 2008 on their excellent residency match.
We all shared in the news of the impressive match results and celebrated this great success. I am extremely proud of these students and all that they have learned in their years at RWJMS. 

Another shared success this spring was the accreditation of UMDNJ by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. I join President William F. Owen, Jr. in commending the concerted effort by the UMDNJ Board of Trustees and the administration, deans, faculty, and staff to enact the necessary reforms and controls that demonstrated to Middle States that UMDNJ is once again an organization worthy of the public’s trust.

Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD
Interim Dean

Class of 2008 Celebrates
Match Day Success

Members of the Class of 2008 hold sealed envelopes that they will open at noon, revealing their residency match results.

Top Left: Sharri Levine of the Office of Student Affairs, Piscataway campus, distributes envelopes to students on Match Day.

Faculty, residents, students, and families joined the 151 residency match participants to learn the results and join in widespread jubilation. “This was another very impressive match for our school,” said Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD, interim dean. “It’s a tribute to the talent and dedication of our students as well as to the commitment of our faculty.”

Susan Rosenthal, MMS ’75, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics and associate dean for student affairs in the clinical years, reports that RWJMS had a 97 percent match rate this year; the national average was 94 percent. “Almost all our students matched with one of their top choices,” says Dr. Rosenthal. “And they matched with
highly competitive programs, including our own excellent training programs at RWJMS and other UMDNJ schools.” The students matched with superb programs in primary care as well as specialties including radiation oncology, dermatology, neurosurgery, and ophthalmology.

Top-tier schools on the RWJMS 2008 match list included Brown University, University of Michigan, University of California-San Francisco, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York University School of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

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Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Restores UMDNJ Accreditation

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of  New Jersey has been accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, announced William F. Owen, Jr., MD, president.

In a recent letter, the Commission noted that the restoration of accreditation was appropriate “because of progress to date and evidence of the institution’s capacity to make appropriate improvements within a reasonable period of time.”

“The decision by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to reaffirm accreditation for our institution is a tremendous vote of confidence for the great work done each day by the faculty and staff of UMDNJ,” said Dr. Owen.
“We appreciate the Commission’s support and guidance over this past period and will continue to work with all of our accrediting bodies as we accelerate the success now underway in each of our mission areas.”