Raritan Bay Medical Center rheumatologist Dr. Janak R. Goyal, of Old Bridge, has been named Attending Physician of the Year by the 2004 graduating internal medicine resident physicians.
The award is offered to physicians who support the residents by giving freely of their time and knowledge. The recipient is selected by the graduating residents.
A teaching hospital since 1903, Raritan Bay Medical Center, now with divisions in Old Bridge and Perth Amboy, has had an internal medical residency since 1980 and is affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
“It is an honor to receive this recognition from the resident physicians,” Goyal said. “I enjoy working with the residents, helping them become better clinicians.”
He teaches rheumatology with an emphasis on history taking and physical examination, stressing key points of diagnoses based on history, physical examination and laboratory data. Residents then make management decisions based on proper diagnosis under his guidance.
“I advise the residents to never stop learning medicine,” Goyal said. “Health care is a rapidly changing field that requires the physician to constantly learn new things. It is important for them to develop an intuition about patient treatment and establish effective plans of care for them.”
Goyal graduated from Medical College Patiala in Punjab, India, in 1974. He practiced medicine in India for more than 10 years before coming to the United States. He completed his internal medicine residency at Raritan Bay Medical Center and completed a rheumatology fellowship from State University of New York–Health Science Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Goyal, who joined Raritan Bay in 1989 as an intern, is now a senior attending physician and director of the division of rheumatology.
A resident of Old Bridge, he has a wife and two adult children, both physicians. He maintains a private practice in rheumatology and internal medicine in Perth Amboy.