Residency & Fellowship Programs

Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian Health offer a host of opportunities and educational experiences to medical professionals in a wide range of specialties and sub-specialties.

Residency Programs

Learn more about the residency programs we offer at Hackensack University Medical Center. 

Fellowship Programs

Learn more about the fellowship programs we offer at Hackensack University Medical Center. 

Message from the Chief Academic Officer 

Welcome to Hackensack University Medical Center Academic Affairs

Hackensack University Medical Center has been on a steep trajectory of academic development. The transition from a traditional community hospital to a nationally recognized quaternary care academic institution has been swift. Hackensack University Medical Center is one of four academic medical centers in Hackensack Meridian Health, a 18 hospital health network that is the most comprehensive and most integrated in the state of New Jersey. Hackensack University Medical Center has embraced the traditional tripartite mission of an academic medical center: outstanding clinical care, a robust teaching program and an innovative transformational research platform.

Hackensack University Medical Center has demonstrated a sustained commitment to health care education. Approximately 100 medical students and 200 medical, dental, pharmacy and podiatric residents train at Hackensack University Medical Center at any given time. The recently formed Health Science Academic Consortium Committee has catalogued teaching affiliations with more than 100 academic institutions. These institutions send students to Hackensack University Medical Center to train in all areas of health care. Almost 1,000 students per year receive clinical training at Hackensack University Medical Center.

Hackensack University Medical Center is engaged in residency programs in Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Urology, Anesthesia, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Fellowships are also being developed. Palisades Medical Center (a member of Hackensack Meridian Health) is a part of the Hackensack University Medical Center academic affairs portfolio. Residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Surgery, Dermatology and a Gastroenterology fellowship have been established.

David Kountz

Continuing Medical Education (CME) is also a focus for Hackensack University Medical Center Academic Affairs and it will leverage the educational power of Hackensack Meridian Health and create a program for lifelong learning across all of the medical centers in the network.

The traditions of medical education have dictated that silos be created to provide undergraduate medical education (medical students), graduate medical education (residents and fellows) and continuing medical education (practicing physicians). We are planning to disrupt these artificial barriers to create a continuum of medical education.

Welcome to Hackensack University Medical Center Academic Affairs!

 David Kountz, M.D. MBA
 Chief Academic Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health
 Professor of Medicine
 Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Additional Healthcare Education

Learn more about Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, JFK Muhlenberg Harold B. and Dorothy A. Snyder Schools of Nursing and Medical Imaging and our other hospitals that offer residency and fellowship programs. 

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Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
We are educating the leaders of tomorrow through our School of Medicine and our residency and fellowship programs.
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JFK Muhlenberg Schools
The JFK Muhlenberg Snyder Schools offers accredited programs in Nursing, Radiography and Diagnostic Medical Sonography.
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Nursing Education
Our Magnet-award winning nurses are the backbone of the frontline care provided at Hackensack Meridian Health. We offer undergraduate and continuing education and professional development so nurses can keep getting better.
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Pediatric Psychology Doctoral Internship Program
Learn more about this one year internship focused on the assessment and treatment of children referred by CPS.
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Professional Medical Education
View all of the HMH hospitals that offer residency and fellowship programs.