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Rutgers consolidating its two medical schools into single Rutgers School of Medicine to boost research and specialized care
Summary
Rutgers officials told the Senate committee the planned integration of New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School aims to expand research capacity, modernize facilities in Newark and New Brunswick, and improve competitiveness for clinical trials and specialty recruitment.
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) officials told the Senate Higher Education Committee they are combining New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) in Newark and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) in New Brunswick into a single Rutgers School of Medicine to increase scale for research, clinical trials and specialist recruitment.
Dr. Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, said the 2012 Higher Education Restructuring Act created RBHS and that subsequent internal review led the university to seek greater integration of the two medical schools. “The merger was transformational for Rutgers,” Strom said, describing RBHS’s growth in extramural…
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