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Rutgers' Medical School Students Match to Residencies

Read about the anxious moment Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School students learned where they will spend the next three to seven years training to become physicians on Match Day. 

Rutgers Helps Bring Diversity to the Physician Assistant Profession

Amid growing racial and ethnic diversity in the United States, the physician assistant program at Rutgers Rutgers School of Health Professions resolved to graduate a student body that would more closely mirror the nation’s shifting patient population. Find out how the multipronged effort to attract top candidates from different racial, ethnic, sexual, and economic backgrounds is working. 

Rutgers School of Health Professions Awarded $4.2 Million to Improve Mental Health Services

It can take 17 years or longer before research that can improve mental health is put into practice. Find out how a multi-million dollar federal grant to Rutgers School of Health Professions to fund a regional Mental Health Technology Transfer Center – one of 10 nationwide – can help speed up the process.

New State Autism Center Opens at Rutgers

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The New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence, led by Elizabeth Torres, an associate professor in psychology at Rutgers-New Brunswick and James Millonig, an associate professor in neuroscience and cell biology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is positioned to become a national model for programs that integrate autism research, clinical care and education.