Family Medicine Residency

Thank you for your interest in the Family Medicine Residency at Cooper University Health Care. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to explore our program and all that we offer! CUH is a pillar of the Camden community, offering quality care to the region, including the underserved communities surrounding the hospital. Residents care for the residents of Camden in multiple contexts, engaging with our community via unique educational programming, as well as through patient care. Residents have access to all of CUH’s resources, including scholarship and research opportunities as well as the ability to work with and learn from every specialty. Lastly, residents will benefit from the amazing educational resources that come from partnering with Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Family Medicine has a large scope of practice and our residents get to experience all that this specialty has to offer, while also having the opportunity to specialize their experience by choosing an educational Track.

Our program is 3 years long with 10 residents in each class. Our residents have the opportunity to work and learn alongside residents from many other specialties including internal medicine, pediatrics, OBGYN, emergency medicine, and others. We offer the full range of educational experiences from inpatient medicine to ambulatory, L&D to pediatrics, and urgent care to community outreach. We work to bring commonly marginalized populations to the foreground ensuring that our graduates can give high-quality, inclusive patient-centered care to everyone in the community.

Residency education can be challenging, requiring dedication and a desire to learn. Our program is dedicated to creating a learning environment that both inspires lifelong learners, and prepares our graduates for fulfilling careers. In order to accomplish this, we are dedicated to the wellness, diversity, equity, and inclusion of our learners. Our residents are empowered to have a voice in the shaping of their program and are encouraged to make a positive impact on our community.

We have put our collective passion for the education of future Family Medicine Physicians into the creation of this program and look forward to sharing that vision with our applicants.

Mission Statement

Our Mission is to foster the growth of compassionate, innovative, and highly skilled family physicians. We strive to provide inclusive and evidence-based medical care, with an emphasis on empowering our community through health and education. 

Our Five Pillars

Clinical Practice: Provide high quality, cost-effective care to a diverse patient population with continual self-evaluation, quality improvement, and innovation.

Medical Education: Achieve educational excellence through bedside teaching, didactics, mentoring, and role modeling, using innovative teaching methods to train resident physicians for independent practice and to provide the skills for lifelong, self-directed learning.

Community Engagement: Serve our community through patient education, culturally competent care, advocacy for social justice, and volunteer service with a goal of improving the health of our community and lowering health disparities.

Scholarship and Research: Innovate to advance the practice and delivery of clinical care, improve quality, develop new teaching methods, reduce health disparities and inequality, and promote scientific inquiry through scholarship and research.

Leadership: Role model and foster leadership qualities and experience through committee work, engagement, and advocacy within Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, and at the regional, state, and national levels, to produce physicians who will become the leader.