Common Questions

All interns and second years work approximately 30 weekend calls. Third years work about 18 weekends and chiefs work 12 weekends.  

Interns typically spend two five-weeks blocks on night float.

Night float covers the inpatient units from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am Sunday and 5:00 pm to 7:00 am Monday through Friday. The weekends (Friday night, Saturday and Sunday during the day) are covered by the residents per the above call schedule.

Interns are on-call for the weekend sign in at 5:00 pm on Fridays for 14 hours, 7:00 am on Saturdays for 24 hours, or Sunday at 7:00 am for 12 hours. Typically, PGY-1 residents have one or two weekends off per month with our night float system.

Both senior residents and attending staff are in the hospital and available for supervision at both sites.  Additionally, there is 24hr/day in house hospitalist coverage for direct resident supervision seven (7) day per week.

We have five residents per year, for a total of 20 residents – a big enough team to handle challenges, but a small enough group to create more camaraderie and mutual support.

The hospital has multiple ancillary services that provide patient transportation, phlebotomy, and all other patient services.  Our nursing staff is excellent, and the residents enjoy a good relationship with them.

All of the residents maintain a panel of patients in either Overlook Medical Center or Morristown Medical Center clinics. Every resident will have half a day of clinic per week. Continuity clinic includes high risk obstetrics, moderate risk obstetrics, low risk obstetrics, routine gynecology, adolescent gynecology, and colposcopy. Our continuity clinic includes two ultrasound machines that includes a vaginal and abdominal probe. There is also an electronic fetal monitoring in clinic that allows residents to triage an obstetric patient.

All residents are required by ACGME to do scholarly research, which includes clinical research and curriculum development. Atlantic Health System is the primary academic and clinical affiliate in New Jersey of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, which enables our residents to collaborate with experts and residents at other facilities on cutting edge research projects.  We have a research director and a biostatistician as well as the Atlantic Center for Research as valuable resources.

Morristown Medical Center was recently named a National Best Hospital for Gynecology by the US News and World Report and is renowned for its breadth of cardiac services, including bypass surgery, angioplasty, and implantable pacemakers. Morristown Medical Center performs the second most heart surgeries in the New York metropolitan area. Overlook Medical Center, the regional leader in comprehensive stroke care and neuroscience services, was the first hospital in the Northeast to use the revolutionary CyberKnife robotic image-guided technology. Overlook Medical Center is a community hospital which provides more routine quality care for a smaller pool of patients. Patients come from urban, suburban and rural areas, various socioeconomic backgrounds, and countries.