Stipend Rates & Benefits

2024-2025 Stipend Rates

Stipend rates

A total of 12 stipend checks are issued each academic year, and trainees are encouraged to participate in the direct deposit program.  Stipend rates below are guaranteed for 2024-2025 academic year.

Post Graduate Year 6 - $75,487 

Leave

The amount of leave provided to the residents is regulated by the GME office at EVMS and also by policies of the American Board of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The ABOHNS limits leave to a total of six weeks (30 workdays) each year, any leave in excess of this will require written notification to the ABOHNS and may require extension of training.

Leave: Three weeks (15 scheduled workdays) free of clinical or fellowship duties, per academic year.

Sick Leave: Sick leave may be authorized with full pay and benefits for a period not to exceed four weeks. Extended leave requires additional documentation and approval.

Maternity Leave: Leave is provided through a combination of sick leave and vacation leave. The ABOHNS allows for a total of 8 weeks (40 workdays) for parental, caregiver or medical leave for 1 year during the residency.

Paternity/Adoption Leave: Leave is provided through the use of vacation leave. . The ABOHNS allows for a total of 8 weeks (40 workdays) for parental, caregiver or medical leave for 1 year during the residency.

Holidays: Trainees are responsible for clinical care of the patients within the educational program. Days off for national, state and religious holidays will be dictated by the institutional schedule, however, call schedules and surgical schedules will dictate coverage needs and resident assignments during these dates.

Educational Leave: Residents are granted educational leave to attend conferences, courses and medical mission trips.

Holidays: Graduate Medical Education trainees are responsible for the clinical care of the patients within the educational program. To this end, trainees are not afforded the standard institutional holidays. The education committee of each individual training program has a set policy, which guides the provision of national, state and religious holidays.

Educational Leave: Subject to approval by the program director.

Trainee benefits

Please visit Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion Benefits site for information.

Benefit rates and enrollment

Medical, dental and vision insurance rates are subject to change as of July 1. Any changes in rates will be reflected in June stipend checks.

Learn more details about benefit offerings.

Here at the school, we have negotiated discounts for faculty, staff and trainees. Current residents and fellows can access a list of these discounts in myPortal.