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.
Stipend Rates & Benefits
PGY1
Post Graduate Year 1 - $64,009
PGY2
Post Graduate Year 2 - $65,774
PGY3
Post Graduate Year 3 - $67,536
Post Graduate Year 4 - $70,644
Psychiatry Residency benefits
Psychiatry offers added benefits addition to institution-wide leave and insurance coverage - to ensure our trainees' success
White coats
Residents are issued one long, white lab coat, embroidered with their name and Psychiatry at the beginning of their PGY-1 year
Education allowance
Surgery provides each resident with a $300 book allowance. This allowance is to be used for educational materials such as textbooks, journals, study guides and web subscriptions. Book funds may not be used for PDAs and loupes. All funds are to be used by June 15. Any remaining balance may not be transferred to the following year. Charges may be made directly to your expense account at the EVMS Bookstore located in Lewis Hall. No charge may be completed without department approval. (Bookstore personnel will call to confirm funds are available.)
Residents may be reimbursed for pre-approved purchases. Original receipts are to be submitted to the Residency Program Coordinator.
Meals
Residents receive two meals per call at Sentara hospitals.
Professional conference attendance
Chief residents are permitted to attend one education conference of their choice during their final year of training. Chiefs will be reimbursed for registration, airfare, hotel and meals that are within a reasonable amount. An academic travel checklist (required for all academic travel) must be completed and turned in to the residency's Educational Specialist 30 days prior to travel.
Free parking
Parking is provided free of charge to all residents on the Eastern Virginia Medical Center complex and at all affiliated teaching institutions located off campus.
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.