Family Medicine Residency 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 five 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.

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 the 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.

“The mission of VCU Riverside Family Medicine 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 also for the future.”

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 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 and city of Newport News