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Program Overview
Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program is a fully accredited ACGME program with Osteopathic Recognition.
Riverside Family Medicine Residency is sponsored by Riverside Regional Medical Center. We are affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University and Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. We are located in beautiful, historic Newport News, Virginia.
The VCU/Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program is one of the oldest family medicine programs in the country, founded in 1971, and one of four residency programs affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU has produced over 1,000 family physicians, of which Riverside has produced over one-third. This is a milestone achieved by only four other Departments of Family Medicine in the country.
The mission of VCU Riverside Family Medicine is to provide quality, family-centered care with an emphasis on acute & chronic disease management, disease prevention & health maintenance, and patient education while training the best Family Physicians in the United States – not only for the present, but for the future.
Riverside Residents can choose from a number of ‘focus’ areas depending upon their interests and future practice needs. These focus areas include obstetrics, urgent care, sports medicine and hospitalist medicine, to name a few.
Education in osteopathic principles and practice is a high point of the intern and resident experience at Riverside for those who are interested, in conjunction with comprehensive training in Family Medicine. Formal osteopathic didactics and osteopathic precepting in the hospital and clinic are provided and supported by all of our faculty. There is hands-on training in manipulation and direct supervision of residents diagnosing and treating their own patients in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. Osteopathic interns and residents become quite comfortable with incorporating osteopathic principles and manipulative skills into their daily practice.
Features
Key Program Features
- 13 family medicine residents per year
- 12 family medicine faculty members, with four holding CAQs in OB, Sports Medicine, Neuromuscular Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. One directs Medical Informatics for the Health System
- Full-time Pediatrician on Faculty
- On site Behavioral Medicine Faculty
- Diverse patient population with large refugee population
- Over 100 sub-specialist community faculty
- Integrated Osteopathic curriculum
- OMM Clinic
- Advanced Care Planning Clinic
- Community Lifestyle & Weight Loss Program
- Global opportunities
- 450+ bed primary medical center at Riverside Regional Medical Center
- Advanced Clinical Simulation Center
- Sports Medicine affiliations with Christopher Newport University
Curriculum
3 Year Curriculum
This is an overview of the curriculum. For more details, click the Download Curriculum button.
PGY-1
- Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics
- General Surgery
- BFMO (continuity clinic)
- EM (Emergency Medicine)
- ICU (critical care)
- IFMO (Introduction to Family Medicine Office)
- FTFM Service (Full Time Family Medicine)
- 2 months
- 3 months (1 mos ea Neonatology, inpt, outpt)
- 2 months
- 1 months
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 1 month
PGY-2
- Cardiology
- KFMO (Knowledge of FMO)
- Pediatrics (outpatient)
- Internal Medicine
- GYN
- MFMO (Management of Family Medicine Office)
- FTFM
- Sports Medicine
- Behavioral Health
- Night Float (2-2 week blocks)
- BFMO
- Elective
- 2 weeks
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 2 months
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 2 months
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 2 weeks
- 1 month
PGY-3
- FTFM Service
- BFMO (continuity clinic)
- Orthopedics
- Dermatology
- Surgical Sub Specialties (2 weeks each Urology, ENT, Ophthalmology)
- Elective
- Geriatrics/Community Medicine
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 1 month
- 2 weeks
- 6 weeks
- 5 months
- 2 months
Electives
Others can be arranged if approved by faculty
- Allergy
- Administrative/Leadership
- Board Review PGY3
- Cardiology
- Emergency Room
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- Global Health
- Hospital Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- MFMO
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Office Teaching
- Oncology
- Orthopedics
- Ostomy/Wound Care (2 weeks)
- Otolaryngology
- Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Plastics
- Podiatry (2 weeks)
- Private FM Office
- Pulmonary
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Rural Medicine (Soles)
- Sports Medicine
- Urology
Salary
2023-2024 Salaries and Benefits
SALARIES
PGY-1 $60,772.00
PGY-2 $62,383.00
PGY-3 $65,858.00
VACATION
PGY1: receives 20 days paid PTO each year.
PGY2: receives 20 days paid PTO and 5 days of conference leave.
PGY3: receives 20 days paid PTO and 5 days of conference leave.
All residents receive 96 hours annual allotment of sick time.
BENEFITS
- A call room is available for each service.
- Meal allowance
- Malpractice Insurance: Liability Coverage while participating in Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program.
- Health and Dental Insurance: for resident and family at a shared cost (available 30 days after start date)
- Disability Insurance after one year of full-time employment and 90 days of disability.
- Basic Live Insurance: Benefit is equal to 1 and one half times your annual earnings to a maximum of $750,000. 90 day waiting period.
- Relocation stipend: $1,000.00 – subject to IRS rules.
- Resident Funds: $2,500.00 Residents Fund (to help finance education activities): $500 is available during the first year – $2,000 is available during the second year and third year
- Uniforms: access to scrubs and Lab coat allowance
- License Fees: Limited Medical License paid for Residents; initial Virginia permanent license fee for Third Year Residents.
- Step III: USMLE or COMLEX
- Certification Exam: ABFM or AOA
- AAFP Dues
- Team Member Discounts: 25 percent employee discount for using most Riverside health care services