Division faculty members have extensive teaching responsibilities, both in the Department of Medicine (DOM) and at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Rutgers RWJMS). These include undergraduate medical education, training of residents, and a Rheumatology Fellowship training program. Faculty members are involved at all levels of the educational process, from lectures at the Medical School to having medical students participate in a Rheumatology elective. Internal Medicine residents (from our program and others in the region), Family Medicine residents, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residents participate in a Rheumatology elective as well.

Our educational component for fellows includes a weekly conference that involves didactic lectures, patient case presentations, Journal Club, radiology conferences. In addition, there is a weekly Rutgers-RWJMS Medicine Department Grand Rounds. All of these activities have direct faculty supervision and, thus, intimate contact between fellows in training and academic faculty. Also, there are NJ Rheumatology Association (NJRA) meetings and several other NJ Rheumatology monthly didactic lectures attended by our faculty and trainees.

The Division has one fellow in each of two years of training. Clinical training spans two years, during which time fellows participate in the diagnosis and management of patients with a wide variety of rheumatic diseases and other diseases with rheumatologic manifestations. As part of their training, the fellows rotate in Pediatric Rheumatology, Musculoskeletal radiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Orthopedics, and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Fellows become part of a team of residents and students headed by full-time faculty who supervise the practical aspects of patient care and provide didactic teaching in the scientific disciplines that underlie the clinical practice of rheumatology.