We feel like there are notable perks to being a newer program. Because the curriculum is still being developed and fine-tuned, we rely heavily on resident input and feedback. As a result, all of our residents have significant leadership roles, and exceptional opportunities to shape their training.
Beyond these advantages, we are thrilled to have been able to start this program, which is filling a huge need for quality primary care in our community. Our office is busy and we are expanding to meet this need. We feel fortunate and excited to serve these patients for years to come.
Capital Health currently has ACGME accredited internal medicine, emergency medicine, and transitional year programs. The program directors work closely together to ensure an optimal learning environment for all. We take pride in the collaboration between programs.
Our outpatient office is located at 832 Brunswick Avenue, Trenton, NJ. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Interns do not have call responsibilities.
We have a night float system, with PGY2 and PGY3 residents each working 4 weeks of night float service per year, Monday through Friday. As a result, our call system only has to cover weekends.
Weekend nights: PGY2/PGY3s work 4-5 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) per year.
Weekend days: PGY2/PGY3s work about 10 individual weekend days (EITHER Saturday or Sunday) per year.
It depends on what is important to you during your residency. For those prioritizing a short commute, there are many local communities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including Pennington, Hamilton, Ewing, Lawrence, Yardley and Newtown. For those interested in city amenities, or with family in other cities, we are an easy commute via highway from cities such as Philadelphia, Princeton, or New Brunswick, NJ. For more information, visit our Life as a Resident page.
All Capital Health outpatient medical offices use Athena. This allows for easy communication amongst providers and between specialties. Athena is web-based, making it easily accessible from any device.
Both Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell and Capital Health Regional Medical Center use Cerner for inpatient and emergency department documentation.
Our patients are the most rewarding parts of the residency! The majority of our patients are publicly insured. With regard to age, we are evenly distributed between pediatric, adult and geriatric patients. We also provide care in various other settings including the hospital, nursing home, community sites and at patient’s homes.
Reproductive Health, Geriatrics, and Community Health
Reproductive Health: We are fortunate to have a fellowship-trained faculty member to lead this curriculum, which includes routine gynecological care, contraceptive counseling and management, abortion care, and monthly didactics and workshops. Procedure training includes point of care ultrasound, colposcopies, endometrial biopsies, and insertion/removal of long acting reversible contraception.
Geriatrics: Our assistant program director is fellowship trained in geriatrics, and both she and our program director are primary care doctors at a local nursing home, enabling them to provide our residents with an excellent geriatric care education. Our geriatric experience extends from outpatient clinic to our continuity nursing home location, which includes home visits, long term care, sub-acute care, and a specialized dementia care unit. The geriatric curriculum provides training on end of life care, palliative medicine, pharmacology management and wound care.
Community Medicine: Community medicine is at the heart of our program’s mission. This longitudinal curriculum pairs our residents with numerous local organizations to improve access and decrease barriers to care. Residents participate in regular community outreach talks, lectures and radio interviews about health and wellness. Residents also go into the community to meet patients in their home to provide team-based psychiatric consults, addiction care, and newborn visits. Residents have education and direct experience caring for patients of all ages with disability.
Our residents are paired with a core faculty advisor for the duration of their training. This advisor will meet with their resident advisees quarterly or more to provide feedback and support to promote resident success. In addition to their formal advisors, residents will have mentorship from all core faculty in both clinical and scholarly activities, and work closely with specialists in many fields throughout training.
Our residents and faculty value work/life balance. Within the longitudinal experience blocks and elective blocks, residents’ schedules include time for self-study, administrative tasks, and scholarly projects. We also have numerous events for teambuilding and inclusion that happen throughout the year. Learn more about wellness here.
We are proud to have many faculty and residents with families! As family physicians, we understand the importance of parent-child bonding and the long-term benefits of breastfeeding, and support our residents to meet their breastfeeding goals. Residents can use FMLA and NJ Bonding Leave, and Capital Health provides up to 6 weeks of paid family and medical leave. Additional supports include: designated lactation space in the hospital, availability of refrigeration, and time accommodations.