Seton Hall-Hackensack Meridian SOM received its preliminary LCME accreditation earlier this week.
http://www.shu.edu/medicine/news/lcme-grants-preliminary-accreditation.cfm
Expect an announcement soon about when it will begin accepting applications for its Fall 2018 class.
Great
Wow
Used to live next to it.
While no track record of this new school, I predict it will be a successful one, why? Hackensack is the county seat of Bergen County, the most prestigious county in NJ and greater New York and it draws the best resources around. The hospital this school is affiliated to is one of the best in the area. Wish it best of luck.
Seems like I’m reading about more med schools opening. Are residency spots increasing to meet demand?
That’s because there are. The number of US allopathic med school seats has increased by 30% since 2002. The increase in osteopathic medical school seats has been even more dramatic with the number of osteo grads doubling since 2005.
No, the vast bulk of funding for resident education come from the Medicare program. That funding was capped in 1997 and has not been increased since.
A small number of states (California, New Mexico, Texas) have used state funds to create a small number of additional primary care (principally family medicine) residency training positions.
Teaching hospitals are already supporting 10,000 resident positions without any federal funds being used. But cuts in medicare and insurance reimbursements have led to a decline in operating revenues putting these slots at risk of being discontinued.
The AOA and ACGME merger has seen about a dozen or so osteopathic residency programs either close or reduce the number or types of residencies they offer because they are unable to meet the higher ACGME credentialing requirements.
In the past 3 years, the total number of residency positions (AOA and ACGME combined) has held steady or seen only a very slight (<2%) increase.
The residency crunch is real.
It’s estimated that there needs to be an increase of at least 3000 residency positions by 2030.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28919221
https://news.aamc.org/for-the-media/article/gme-funding-doctor-shortage/
http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Main-Match-Results-and-Data-2017.pdf
@WayOutWestMom Seton Hall SOM is promising residency spots in the Meridian hospital subject to available specialities
Seton Hall Cannot “promise” residency spots to its grads. That’s a violation of ACGME and NRMP policies. (Unless SH is offering some sort of a 3-year-med-school-directly-into-FM type program. Currently only LECOM, Texas Tech, NYU and Mercer have this type of program.)
Also, the residency program at Meridian isn’t new. It was first accredited in 1973. The Meridian hospital system is currently approved for 42 training slots, mostly in IM. Meridian is currently associated with RWJ SOM, but has shifted its affiliation to Seton Hall starting this fall.
@WayOutWestMom Thanks for explanation, it seems that they will have a 3 year program like NYU, LECOM etc. in future
According to sdn UC Davis and MCWis also has this program, I think you have to committed to pcp to be eligible.
On a side note, is it norm for a med school graduates to do a 5th year research to be matched into a competitive specialty?
No. Most med students going into competitive specialties don’t do a research year.
Radiation oncology may be the exception since 25% of rad onc matches hold a PhD and additional 17% hold another advanced degree. Successful rad onc matches also have an average of 12.7 pubs each.
The MCW program is brand new this year. You must be part of Green Bay campus and must declare rural medicine primary care track upon enrolling. Students are eligible to match into community-based FM or psych residencies upon completion of the program.
The UC-Davis primary care track has a 4th year, but an abbreviated one.
According to NYU's website, students in the 3 year program received a conditional acceptance into a few specific primary care residencies but are required to go the NRMP Match anyway before their residency acceptance is final. Are you sure? I’m not sure this is true.
The NRMP research stats are meaningless. “Pubs” includes posters and conference talks and there are no time or quality limits. When it comes to those numbers, poster at summer undergrad research day counts just as much as first author nature paper.
According to the NRMP, I have over 30 publications. If that were actual pubs I’d probably be an associate professor already.