"Patient population of Newark. Believe the hype - people really are incredibly sick. You will see diseases even residents trained at other programs have never seen. Patients tend to have little to no primary care, so diseases are typically end-stage and impressive. State-school in an urban, low income area means most people don't have big egos (not always true). There are opportunities to do rotations at hackensack, st barnabas, morristown hospitals to get a better grasp of upper-middle class (insured) patient care." | Report Response

"Some good professors. Rewarding clinical experiences due to diverse disadvantaged urban population mixed in with surrounding wealthy suburbs." | Report Response

"Lots of clinical opportunities to take advantage of, and professors that really care about helping you UNDERSTAND the material." | Report Response

"urban setting, low cost, decent clinical ed" | Report Response

"Clinical experience" | Report Response

"Student affairs office is not great. The hospital and medical school facilities are older." | Report Response

"Lot unnecessary mandatory sessions. Teach a lot of STEP 2 material in preclinical years instead of focusing on basics. Not much STEP1 allocated study time. Administration is very arrogant and lazy. Anatomy is heavily over weighted in grading scheme, averaging 30% of the grade in all of the blocks. Overpriced for a state school. City of Newark is a food desert." | Report Response

"Block scheduling sometimes does not give enough time to absorb all the material." | Report Response

"Horrible admin, too much wasted time in 1st/2nd year." | Report Response

"Politics" | Report Response

"Going to this school will not preclude you matching to a great residency. Keep in mind many aspects of medical school education are dependent on which residents are rotating at a certain time, which changes from year to year and may render older advice obsolete. NJMS switched to a "systems-based" 1st and 2nd year curriculum a few years ago." | Report Response

"Would not recommend" | Report Response

"Infrequently. If you so choose, you can stay home and watch recorded lectures." | Report Response

"Core, the least helpful or relevant class most of the time (exceptfor H&P) has mandatory attendance for most of their crap." | Report Response

"Somewhat infrequently. Cirriculum is neither systems based or traditional. Courses are attempted to be integrated (for example, pathology, pharmacology, medicine, preventative medicine, and nutrition is combined into a Disease Process, Prevention, and Therapy course)" | Report Response

"The basics - First Aid for Step 1, pathoma." | Report Response

"BRS, FA," | Report Response

"most." | Report Response

"UCV, most of the texts. Most of the test questions come from lectures, unfortunaetly this makes most of the questions on the tests less helpful for borad study and the big picture." | Report Response

"NJMS is associated with the well-respected PM&R program Kessler. More than a few students choose PM&R each year, but this is not pushed." | Report Response

"none that I know of" | Report Response

"super high cost dorm style. they know they have you by the short hairs so they gouge." | Report Response

"Studios, 1br, 2br, and 3br. All expensive for the location (ranging from ~800-1200per person) but very nice (but overbaring with regulations - very dorm like in that aspect). Only hospital staff or students can live in housing however" | Report Response

"Not great." | Report Response

"anatomy amazing, biochem/gentics so so, physio good, neuro good, mirco/immuno so so, path good, pharm poor, biostats/epi good." | Report Response

"Mostly good but luck-of-the-draw." | Report Response

"depends too much on where you are. VA is cool, Hack you don't do much of anything, UH is hit or miss." | Report Response

"Pass/fail, but be advised - you are still ranked relative to the rest of your class. AOA (medical honors society) is only available to top 10% of class." | Report Response

"HP, Honors, P, F" | Report Response

"F/P/HP/H" | Report Response

"Honors (90-100), High Pass (80-90), Pass (70-80), Fail (<70)" | Report Response

"Mostly Pass, High pass, honors, fail." | Report Response

"Same" | Report Response

"Honors (90-100 typically), High Pass (85-90 typically), Pass (70-85), Fail (<70)" | Report Response

"Lottery system. Required: internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, OBGYN, surgery, neurology, psychiatry, emergency medicine, PM&R." | Report Response

"lottery. the usual/standard core." | Report Response

"3rd year required: Internal Medicine (12weeks, 4 at University, 4 at outside hospital, 4 in outpatient), Surgery (8 weeks, 3.5 at public hospital, 3.5 at private hospital, 1week lectures before shelf), OB/GYN (6 weeks), Psych/Neuro (4weeks each, one grade from the two together), Pediatrics (6 weeks), Family Medicine (5weeks), 2 2week electives (one following OB Gyn, one prior to thanksgiving that is the entire class). 4th year required are 4 weeks subI in Medicine, Surgery(General, Trauma, or SICU), OB/Gyn, or Family Medicine, 4 weeks Emergency Medicine, 2 Weeks PM&R, 2 Weeks Public Health, and then 26weeks of electives (which works out to 10 weeks off, and you are eligible through first three years to earn up to 6 more weeks off through tutoring, mentoring, or working in a student run clinic)" | Report Response

"At University Hospital you are highly involved in patient care. This is the main advantage to this program. Of course this varies service to service and between hospitals, as it will with all schools." | Report Response

"again, it depends on the location. UH yes, Hack no, VA kinda" | Report Response

"Varies depending where, residents, and the medical student. I have felt useless, and I have felt entirely in control of a patient. I have removed a gallbladder during surgery, and I have been not allowed to scrub." | Report Response

"UH is not gongi anywhere. Hack is on the outs but no big loss, VA still here. Prob is arising that we share with IM students and DO students so spots are tough/" | Report Response

"Hackensack is one of the largest hospitals in the nation, and relationship is strong." | Report Response

"Poor, underserved, large hispanic population, large african american population." | Report Response

"urban, poor." | Report Response

"Uninsured, low socioeconomic status, lots of HIV, Tb, large hispanic population" | Report Response

"we tend to booze it up in hoboken or NY. no one really likes to hand in newark which is a shame. occassionaly there will be parties in Society Hill." | Report Response

"Go to Hoboken or NYC" | Report Response

"Pretty well." | Report Response

"pretty good from what I've seen. not bad, not amazing." | Report Response

"Excellent residency match locations and highly regarded" | Report Response

"not really sure." | Report Response

"Clinically strong regardless of field" | Report Response

"You can be a great applicant coming out of NJMS. It's up to you." | Report Response

"solid clinical ed, lots of clinical experience if you spend much time @ UH." | Report Response

"Excellent clinically, above many others" | Report Response