 Palisades Medical Center is a place where people really want to go to train. We have tremendous faculty. We have a brand new medical school. We have residencies that are really at the top. We have a tremendously diverse patient population, so it's a great place to learn. People recognize that and our residencies are very competitive. People want to come here. When you first start here at Palisades Medical Center, they gauge your interest right away. You know what you're really into and what you're bringing to the table. So early on, when I first came here, they got me involved in both the sepsis and the stroke protocols at this hospital and seeing what our response times were for both. And that was important to me since that was part of what I cared about. I care a lot about critical care medicine, and so dealing with response times for patients is quite important because it affects outcomes. It sets the program of internal medicine residencies at Palisades apart from other programs, a strong scholarly activity program where we have been successful over the years of introducing and fostering a questioning and inquiry environment where residents would like to understand more about what's behind the clinical presentation. The support from the faculty is tremendous at this program when it comes to doing bedside rounds with them or for them just teaching on how to do physical exam findings on certain patients to just dealing with them in the outpatient clinic when they're able to talk to you about each individual patient and able to establish continuity of care. Every resident is a mentee to one of the expert mentors in their fields. The autonomy at this hospital is quite great. I like the fact that they're able to give us the room to kind of breathe and take care of the patients on our own. When I see a patient and I'm treating a patient, it's my plan. Our goals of graduating an internist that's well rounded physician, efficient medical knowledge, content patient care, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, practice based learning and improvement, system based practice. And we do have tools to train and to teach every one of these competencies to be sure that our graduates are ready for practicing medicine wherever they will be. The camaraderie at our program is quite unique. It's actually the number one reason why I chose our program. I noticed it right away the way the interns and the senior residents during the interviews were interacting with each other, the way they were interacting with the nursing staff at the hospital. The residents here are exposed to different tools to teach every of the competencies needed for training and internal medicine. So for medical knowledge, we have every day a didactic session where the subjects in medicine are being taught on case presentations. Every subject is being taught based on how the patient is being presented. This medical center is uniquely located in a diverse socioeconomic area where I'm seeing a wide variety of patients and pathologies. It's proximity to New York City makes it a very ideal location to be around. The Riverwalk, which runs from Edgewater all the way down towards Jersey City, it's a beautiful place to go for a walk, for a run or a bike ride, which is something that we often do. Our intern medicine program here is having a continued accreditation without any citation or without any areas of improvement by the ACGME. So this is something that we take pride. We have an environment where the residents see a tremendous amount and are managing the cases themselves and there's an academic tone that we're very proud of at Palisades.