Hackensack Meridian Health/Palisades Medical Center Program

Family Medicine residency · North Bergen, NJ · Academic hospital · Middle Atlantic

ACGME code: 1203300684
NRMP code: not listed
Setting: Academic hospital
Positions · accreditation: not reported · Continued Accreditation

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ACGME code: 1203300684
NRMP code: not listed
Setting: Academic hospital
Positions · accreditation: not reported · Continued Accreditation

The numbers

Interview rate: 10.6%; of all applicants
Non-US IMG interview share: 16.0%; of interviews
Interview rate for non-US IMGs: 5.0%; of IMG applicants
Step 2 CK range: 218–250; published band
Positions offered: not reported; PGY-1 seats
ERAS applicants: 989; last cycle
Applicants per position: not reported; competition
Resident non-US IMG %: 18.0%; FM average 15% nationally
Non-US IMG Step 2 range: 215–252; median 232, small sample
Graduation cutoff: not reported; their site says nothing about one
Step 2 CK hard minimum: not reported; published cutoff

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ACGME 1203300684

Step 2 CK, and where you sit

The band this program actually interviewed in, rather than the minimum it will accept.

215252

Most of the non-US IMGs they interviewed scored between 215 and 252. Half of them were above 232.

Only a small number of applicants sit behind this range, so the two numbers move easily from year to year.

How often they interview non-US IMGs

Non-US IMG interview rate

5%Very high

What signals were worth here

Signal interview rate

26%Below average

Interview rate by how people applied

Signal26%29 of 110 interviewed
No signal9%~79 of 879 interviewed

Overall: about 105 of 989 applicants interviewed (10.6%). A signal here raised the interview rate about 3 times.

Your notes

Your fit

Where this program sits

A raw percentage means little on its own. These are ranks against every Family Medicine program on this site that reports the same measure.

Interview rate 10.6% better than 14% of programs
Non-US IMG interview share 16.0% better than 82% of programs
Resident non-US IMG share 18.0% better than 72% of programs
Applicants per position not reported

not reported, so this program is left out of the ranking rather than placed last

Ranked against 396–711 programs depending on the measure, out of 820.

How IMG-heavy is this program?

18.0% of its residents are non-US IMGs. There are two honest ways to read that, and they can point in opposite directions.

Against every Family Medicine program in the country national average 15%: 1.2x
Against the 820 programs listed here median of the 665 that report it 4% · higher than 72% of them: 4.5x

The first compares this program with a typical Family Medicine program anywhere. The second compares it with the programs you are actually choosing between, which is a narrower and more IMG-oriented set. Treating either one as the other is the mistake this section exists to prevent.

How to read those signal numbers

Each meter above fills to this program's rate on a 0–100% scale, and its line marks the median Family Medicine program on this site that reports the same measure; the word beside the rate says which fifth of those programs it ranks in. The bars underneath are the same rates by how people applied, with the counts each one is made of.

Worked out from this program's own reported figures, and checked to add back up to its total number of invites.

Contact

Who runs it, and how to reach them, is on the program's own site.

Program website

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The odds, end to end

Everyone who applied, everyone who was invited, and the seats that exist.

Interview invites are estimated from the reported interview rate. Positions offered is not reported.

This program against the Family Medicine average

The three measures where programs differ most for an IMG.

No national average is published for non-US IMG interview share, so that bar stands alone.

Who applies against who gets interviewed

When these two bars differ, that difference is the most useful thing on this page.

Non-US IMGs are 34% of applicants but only 16% of interviews. A large share of IMG applications here do not convert into interviews.

Part of this breakdown is not reported, so the segments are incomplete.