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New Jersey Venture Aims to Stop ‘Exodus’ of Medical Students
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University is state’s first private medical school to open in more than six decades
By Melanie Grace West / Wall Street Journal
March 24, 2018
Years in the making, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University is finally ready for students.
The school, located at the former Hoffmann-La Roche campus in Nutley, N.J., is a joint venture of Seton Hall University and Hackensack Meridian Health. The college began accepting applications this week for its first class of 55 students, who will begin studies this July.
One of the school’s goals is to keep physicians in New Jersey, which is facing an estimated shortage of 3,000 doctors by 2020, said Robert Garrett, co-chief executive officer for Hackensack Meridian Health.
“We’ve seen a huge exodus from New Jersey with medical students receiving education out of state,” said Mr. Garrett. “We’re hoping to reverse a talent drain.”
Over just a few days, 400 people have applied, according to a spokeswoman for Hackensack Meridian, the state’s largest health network.
The school is New Jersey’s first private medical school to open in more than six decades, and now is the only one in the state. Over time, the school will grow to roughly 150 students per class, according to Hackensack Meridian. Combined with the classes from Seton Hall’s College of Nursing and its School of Health and Medical Sciences, some 3,000 students ultimately will call the college home, the network said.
The campus occupies some 100,000 square feet over 17 acres in a sprawling site about 12 miles from Manhattan. The buildings that comprise the medical school have state-of-the-art equipment left behind when Hoffmann-La Roche, a Swiss health-care company, moved its Nutley operation to California.
The new medical school announced its move into the former campus in January 2016. Since then it had been working toward accreditation, which it received in February.
Students will complete their training in the 16 hospitals that are part of the Hackensack Meridian Health network, school officials said. The curriculum will emphasize population health, officials said, and pair doctors with other health professionals to shadow families living in poor communities, the officials said. Over time, the expectation is for students to learn how to “partner with people from a broad range of disciplines” to best care for patients, said Dr. Bonita Stanton, the founding dean of the school.
Students will have the option of a year-round, three-year program, which would shave expenses from an annual tuition that runs upward of $50,000, officials said. A fourth year could be spent on a dual-degree program with engineering, for example. The school will open with an endowment of $100 million for scholarships, a school official said.
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University is state’s first private medical school to open in more than six decades
By Melanie Grace West / Wall Street Journal
March 24, 2018
Years in the making, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University is finally ready for students.
The school, located at the former Hoffmann-La Roche campus in Nutley, N.J., is a joint venture of Seton Hall University and Hackensack Meridian Health. The college began accepting applications this week for its first class of 55 students, who will begin studies this July.
One of the school’s goals is to keep physicians in New Jersey, which is facing an estimated shortage of 3,000 doctors by 2020, said Robert Garrett, co-chief executive officer for Hackensack Meridian Health.
“We’ve seen a huge exodus from New Jersey with medical students receiving education out of state,” said Mr. Garrett. “We’re hoping to reverse a talent drain.”
Over just a few days, 400 people have applied, according to a spokeswoman for Hackensack Meridian, the state’s largest health network.
The school is New Jersey’s first private medical school to open in more than six decades, and now is the only one in the state. Over time, the school will grow to roughly 150 students per class, according to Hackensack Meridian. Combined with the classes from Seton Hall’s College of Nursing and its School of Health and Medical Sciences, some 3,000 students ultimately will call the college home, the network said.
The campus occupies some 100,000 square feet over 17 acres in a sprawling site about 12 miles from Manhattan. The buildings that comprise the medical school have state-of-the-art equipment left behind when Hoffmann-La Roche, a Swiss health-care company, moved its Nutley operation to California.
The new medical school announced its move into the former campus in January 2016. Since then it had been working toward accreditation, which it received in February.
Students will complete their training in the 16 hospitals that are part of the Hackensack Meridian Health network, school officials said. The curriculum will emphasize population health, officials said, and pair doctors with other health professionals to shadow families living in poor communities, the officials said. Over time, the expectation is for students to learn how to “partner with people from a broad range of disciplines” to best care for patients, said Dr. Bonita Stanton, the founding dean of the school.
Students will have the option of a year-round, three-year program, which would shave expenses from an annual tuition that runs upward of $50,000, officials said. A fourth year could be spent on a dual-degree program with engineering, for example. The school will open with an endowment of $100 million for scholarships, a school official said.