A community-engaged service learning requirement teaches students to identify and reflect upon community needs and assets, fostering an enhanced sense of civic responsibility.Health equity and social justice content is integrated throughout all required courses and clerkships to prepare future physicians to be responsive to societal issues.Active learning activities with innovations in educational technologyįurthermore, NJMS’s curriculum has unique strengths with a special commitment to the health of underserved communities.Interprofessional and interdisciplinary opportunities.Integration of basic and clinical sciences vertically and horizontally.In 2015, NJMS’s curriculum revision resulted in an organ systems–based curriculum with the following guiding principles:

The strategic vision of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) is to optimize health and social well-being by preparing humanistic leaders in global health care through education of physicians and scientists, building on our strengths of diversity, hands-on clinical training, urban health care programs, and transformative research.

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