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Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Browns Mills, NJ 08015
(609) 893-6611
SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAM:
Cardiology Program Director:
David Altimore, DO
altimored@deborah.org

Cinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program Director:
Raaffaele Corbisiero, MD
corbisieror@deborah.org

Interventional Cardiology Program Director:
Steven Goldstein, DO
goldsteins@deborah.org

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KCOM/Overlook Hospital
99 Beauvoir Avenue
Summit, NJ
(908) 522-2898
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Peter Barry, DO
pbarrydo@hotmail.com

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NYCOM-Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
201 Lyons Avenue
Newark, NJ 07112
(973) 926-7000
http://www.saintbarnabas.com/...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Jon Sicat, DO
jsicat@sbhcs.com

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UNECOM-St. Michael's Medical Center
Division of Cathedral Healthcare System

111 Central Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 877-5541
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
Mark J. Rametta, DO
piconerametta@optonline.net

SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAMS:
Combined Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine Program Director:
Mark J. Rametta, DO
piconerametta@optonline.net

The Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, established in 1987, is a graduate professional school within the university structure. The school's mission is to prepare medical professionals to provide the highest quality compassionate care, as well as to assume leadership roles in the health care arena. To achieve this goal, a variety of unique and innovative educational programs are offered utilizing a multi-institutional and integrated approach to internal medicine education. The Internal Medicine Residency program is dually approved by both the AOA and ACGME. Residents have the opportunity to take both the Osteopathic and Allopathic Certification Exam. This residency provides the trainee with the additional skills to become a primary care internist, sub-specialist, hospitalist, either in practice or in an academic setting as a clinician educator. Four successful training sites integrate their teaching resources to provide multiple opportunities in internal medicine training. Residents see a diverse mix of patients with a variety of common and unusual medical conditions. Trainees treat fee-for-service, managed care, medicare, medicaid and indigent patients. Teaching services assure proper and educationally sound case loads, with graduated responsibilities. Residents are team leaders on the in-patient services, consultants in sub-specialty clinics, and have lecture time. Residents participate in multiple ambulatory training experiences, such as continuity clinic, non-Internal Medicine specialty fields, and Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy Clinic. Residents are supervised by Full-Time General Medicine and sub-specialty faculty, composed of seasoned professionals. The Residency program emphasizes prevention, health promotion, and early detection in the approach to health care delivery.

Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education participating hospitals include Saint Michael's Medical Center, Trinitas Hospital, John F. Kennedy Medical Center and Columbus Hospital. The Internal Medicine Residency is college-sponsored by the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and an active participant in the Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network (OPTI).

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University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
School of Osteopathic Medicine
John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital
University Medical Center

One Medical Center Drive
Suite 21D-GME
Stratford, NJ 08084-1501
(856) 566-7121
http://som.umdnj.edu...
INTERNAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
Program Director:
James C. Giudice, DO
weldinkm@umdnj.edu

PRIMARY CARE INTERNAL MEDICINE TRACK
Program Director:
Joanne Kaiser-Smith, DO
jksdoc@aol.com

SUBSPECIALTY PROGRAMS:
Cardiology Program Director:
John Hamaty, DO
jhamaty@comcast.net

Combined Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine Program Co-Directors:
Thomas Morley, DO
tmorley@comcast.net
Anthony DiPasquale, DO
(email link not currently available)

Critical Care Medicine Program Director:
Thomas Morley, DO
tmorley@comcast.net

Combined Critical Care/Pulmonary Medicine Program Director:
Thomas Morley, DO
tmorley@comcast.net

Endocrinology Program Director:
Louis Haenel, DO
endooffice05@yahoo.com

Gastroenterology Program Director:
John Chiesa, DO
johnchiesa@yahoo.com

Geriatric Medicine Program Director:
Terrie Ginsberg, DO
ginsbete@umdnj.edu

Infectious Diseases Program Director:
David Condoluci, DO
condodav@comcast.net

Nephrology Program Director:
Joseph M. Pitone, DO
j.pitone@kennedyhealth.org

Oncology Program Director:
Nathan Freed, DO
weldinkm@umdnj.edu

Sleep Medicine Program Director:
Amita Vasoya, DO
avasoya8@comcast.net

For more than 30 years, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine (UMDNJ-SOM) has been training general internists and subspecialists to provide high quality and compassionate medical care in a variety of practice settings. Many of the program's graduates have distinguished themselves as outstanding clinicians and academicians in their fields and have become recognized leaders within their communities as well as the osteopathic profession.

UMDNJ-SOM's Department of Medicine offers an internal medicine specialty track internship and a residency program that consists of a traditional medicine track and a newly-developed, federally-funded primary care track. An internal medicine/ emergency medicine program is also available in conjunction with the Department of Emergency Medicine. Fellowship opportunities exist in cardiology, critical care medicine, gastroenterology, geriatrics, infectious diseases, nephrology, and pulmonary medicine. Currently there are 14 specialty-track interns, 28 senior residents and seven fellows totaling 49 housestaff members. Within the residency, there are 26 interns and residents in the traditional track, six in the primary care track, and 10 in the internal medicine/emergency medicine program.

Historically, UMDNJ-SOM's residency training program has been designed to prepare its graduates for careers either in general internal medicine or the subspecialties. Over the past 10 years, 40 percent of graduates have pursued careers as general internists and 60 percent have gone on to subspecialty training. Graduates of the residency have reported an 88 percent first time pass rate on their AOBIM examination. In the traditional medicine track, the first year focuses on general internal medicine, cardiology, and intensive care, with a second year focus on the subspecialties. Continuity care experiences in ambulatory settings are available throughout the training. The primary care track offers more intensive clinical exposure to primary care-related disciplines and has a special focus on underserved and high-risk populations such as the elderly, the uninsured, and the developmentally disabled. The primary care track also offers increased opportunities for ambulatory and continuity experiences, including sites at long-term care facilities and ambulatory sites in rural and urban areas.

The residency's faculty consists of more than 25 full-time and 100 volunteer faculty members. The training program offers excellent patient diversity and pathology. Its hospital affiliations include three hospitals of the Kennedy Health System at Stratford, Washington Township, and Cherry Hill, NJ, and Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, NJ. While the Kennedy Health System's 215, 200 and 192-bed facilities draw primarily from suburban and rural communities, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center is a 375-bed tertiary care center that serves both its local inner city community as well as the Southern New Jersey region.

UMDNJ is the nation's largest public university for the health sciences with eight schools on five campuses throughout the state. UMDNJ-SOM is located on the University's southernmost campus in suburban Stratford, NJ which is 20 minutes from downtown Philadelphia, less than an hour from the New Jersey shore, and two hours from New York City. As University-based programs, all of the graduate medical education training programs enjoy access to the extensive network of library and computer resources. In addition, the Department of Medicine provides an infrastructure that encourages and supports research and educational opportunities for its interns, residents, and fellows.

For further information on these opportunities, please contact James C. Giudice, D.O., FACOI, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, Traditional track; or Joanne Kaiser-Smith, D.O., FACOI, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, Primary Care track at 856-566-2753 or by email at weldinkm@umdni.edu.

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