At EVMS Family Medicine, we believe in supporting resident wellness throughout the entirety of your three years of training. We have put in place multiple systems to ensure that all residents have the necessary support to grow academically and thrive professionally and personally.
Advantages of our program
- Wellness Chairs who help organize and coordinate resident centric wellness events
- Support monthly wellness events paid for by the residency program. Some examples include the following:
- Top golf
- Bowling
- Yoga
- Comedy shows
- Fall festivals
- Halloween and holiday parties
- Support monthly Wellness Wednesdays paid for by the residency program. Residents have had these events located at various restaurants and breweries in the Hampton Roads
- Support a yearly wellness retreat for all residents that is paid for by the residency program
- No clinical obligations during this 24 hour period
- Faculty help cover clinical responsibilities at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Maryview Hospital for the period that the residents are away (admissions, rounding, discharges, rapid responses, etc.)
- Support for time off during the holidays that doesn’t count against the 15 days of sick leave
- Back up system to cover clinical duties at Ghent Family Medicine or Portsmouth Family Medicine and at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital or Maryview Hospital should a resident need to utilize sick leave
