Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Motto Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra Established 1961 Type Public Dean Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD Academic staff 2,800 (full-time, part-time, and volunteer) Students 640 Other students 450 (residents and Fellows) Location New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Camden, New Jersey, USA Campus Urban and Suburban Affiliations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website http://rwjms.rutgers.edu

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) is the graduate medical school of Rutgers University. It is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. Robert Wood Johnson is one of two medical schools that are a part of Rutgers University's School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.[1]

In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center.[citation needed] In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 20 basic science and clinical departments, and hosts centers and institutes including The Cardiovascular Institute, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.

The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs.

Previously an academic unit of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School transferred to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as part of the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act, on July 1, 2013.

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School was formed in 1961 as Rutgers Medical School, part of Rutgers University, with a planning grant from the Kellogg Foundation. In the fall of 1963, the first faculty members joined the school and the first class of 16 students entered in September 1966. At the end of two years of instruction, students transferred to other four-year medical schools to complete their education.

In 1970, the Rutgers Medical School was organizationally united with the New Jersey Medical School in Newark and the New Jersey Dental School to form the "College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey" (later renamed the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), and became a full four year medical school. Raritan Valley Hospital, in Green Brook, New Jersey, was the school's original clinical teaching affiliate, until 1977 when Middlesex General Hospital (now Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital) in New Brunswick became the primary teaching hospital of Rutgers Medical School. The first doctor of medicine degrees were conferred in June 1974. In 1980, the Board of Trustees established a second clinical campus of the medical school in Camden with Cooper University Medical Center, (now Cooper University Hospital). On July 1, 1986, UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School was renamed Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

In 1995 the Clinical Academic Building (CAB), a 225,000-square-foot (20,900m2) facility for outpatient activities, research laboratories, academic offices and support programs, opened adjacent to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick, and in 1997, the 75,000-square-foot (7,000m2) Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) opened its doors. CINJ became an independent institute on July 1, 2013 with the integration to Rutgers, but is managed by faculty of the medical school. In October 2003, the school opened and dedicated the Research Building in Piscataway, which houses twenty-seven research laboratories as well as a core imaging suite, interdepartmental instruments, and a core nuclear magnetic resonance facility.

Construction of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey was completed in 2005, linking Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and the PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital, in New Brunswick. This tri-institutional biomedical research and pediatric care center serves as the cornerstone of the childrens academic campus of the medical school bringing the scientific and clinical programs together with hospital based programs. In May 2004, the State of New Jersey created the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.

Over the course of a decade, beginning in 2002, various state and university commissions were established to explore restructuring higher education in the stateand UMDNJ specifically. Commissions led by P. Roy Vagelos, MD; The Hon. Thomas H. Kean; and Sol J. Barer, PhD, produced a variety of recommendations during that time, until on Aug. 22, 2012, the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act was approved by the state legislature and signed by Governor Chris Christie.As a result of this legislation, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools New Brunswick campus and all schools, institutes, and centers of UMDNJexcept for the School of Osteopathic Medicine, the entire Stratford campus, the remaining UMDNJ facilities in Camden, and University Hospitalwere transferred to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on July 1, 2013. In addition to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School becoming a part of Rutgers, its Cancer Institute of New Jersey became an independent institute at Rutgers University, distinct and separate from the Medical School. Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools Camden campus was transferred to Rowan University on that date as well, joining Rowans Cooper Medical School.

View original post here:

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - Wikipedia, the free ...