Our Mission
The mission of VCU Riverside Family Medicine Residency is to provide quality, family-centered care across the lifespan with an emphasis on risk factor identification, acute and chronic disease management, disease prevention, health maintenance, and patient education while training the best Family Physicians – not only for the present, but for the future.
Our Vision
We will be the premiere Family Medicine Residency in Virginia training residents in comprehensive, holistic family medicine to meet the needs of diverse communities.
Our Values
- Capable
- Community
- Compassion
- Curiosity
- Innovation
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Quality
“Our program has a strong emphasis on individualizing the residents’ educational activities and learning experiences to prepare them as life-long learners in the challenging and rewarding practice of medicine.”
Program Aims
- Train Resident physicians broadly and excellently inpatient and outpatient medicine in the full breadth of Family Medicine so they can enter any post-graduate work venue and be successful.
- Recruit and train medical students to become excellent family physicians who will practice in Virginia.
- Strive to teach continuous quality improvement and disease prevention
- Create a culture that promotes community outreach and engagement that extends beyond training.
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
- Full-time Pediatrician on faculty
- On-site Behavioral Medicine Provider
- Diverse patient population with large refugee population
- Over 100 subspecialist 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 and city of Newport News, VA