Community Medical Center

Clerks will rotate with residents at the hospital participating in inpatient management, didactics, rounds as well as all surgical cases. Clerks additionally spend time weekly in the outpatient offices with the faculty attendings. All clerks will be required to participate in one weekday of call and one weekend day of call. All clerks will give surgical presentation at the conclusion of the rotation.

Community Medical Center is an acute care hospital with 592-beds. The hospital offers the patients of Ocean County and the surrounding area with superior medical treatment with an emphasis on healing and promoting patient safety. This hospital cares for over 28,000 inpatients, 127,700 outpatients and 100,000 emergency department patients each year. Level 2 Trauma Center. The objectives of the Community Medical Center Podiatric Residency Program are to provide extensive training through a graduate medical education program in which residents will be trained in reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery, trauma surgery, elective foot surgery, and limb salvage. They will complete a diversified well defined core curriculum with opportunity for elective, wound care and office-based rotations. Residents will participate in research and studies and a strong didactic curriculum, there is ample opportunity for research, mentoring, board review and studying.