Resident Wellbeing
Welcome to our Wellness webpage!!!
We at Rutgers NJMS Psychiatry Residency pride ourselves in being
an extremely supportive training program. Residency can be one of the most
exciting and rewarding times in our life, but it comes with many challenges and
personal sacrifices. Finding a balance between education, patient care
responsibilities and personal life is difficult. At our program, we make
it a priority to help our residents find and live this balance through our unique
wellness curriculum.
Commitment to Diversity
Newark is host to a melting pot with representative identities
from all over the world, across the spectrum of gender and sexual orientation,
and our program celebrates this same diversity. New Jersey Medical School is
proud to create safe spaces for residents and fellows to congregate and
celebrate their unique identities.
- Serves as a resource and tight-knit
safe space for all LGBTQIA-identified students, graduate
students, residents, and fellows at
NJMS.
- social events, mixers, community
outreach, educational and research activities, promoting a fun, vibrant,
and safe community of acceptance.
- Educate the broader NJMS community
and ultimately improve healthcare equity for LGBTQIA+ patients.
Contact out@njms.rutgers.edu
- Mission to promote the advancement
of underrepresented housestaff through community building, networking, and
mentorship.
- Monthly meetings
- For more information regarding this
initiative, please feel free to contact me via email at eg599@njms.rutgers.edu or Ms. Omayra Mercado, Special Assistant to the
Executive Vice Dean, at (973) 972-5151 or via email at mercadom@njms.rutgers.edu.
Our wellness program is designed promote the wellbeing of our
residents, and train them to become leaders in physician and occupational
wellness. We cultivate a healthy and mindful approach to our residents' daily
lives and make continuous improvements at both the individual and
organizational levels in ways that accommodate the interests of
residents.
Specifically, our program offers:
- Didactics designed to cultivate a
mindful and wellbeing-based approach towards patient intervention
- Weekly wellness sessions built into
the protected didactic time chaired by a member of the Resident Wellness
Committee
- Frequent catered lunches (not just
bagels and coffee!) with built in time to socialize
- Regular cohort meetings with the
program director to address issues and effect longitudinal change for continuous
improvements of the program
- Spring and winter residency
retreats
In addition, Rutgers NJMS offers:
- GME sponsored events like
watercolor painting and yoga sessions
- Monthly interdepartmental social
activities
- Access to state-of-the-art athletic
facilities like the Golden Dome Athletic Center
- Free unlimited counseling,
substance use treatment, and pharmacotherapy from the Resident Wellness
and Excellence Center
- 4 weeks of vacation and 4 personal
days per year
- $1300 per year of educational
allowance which may be spent on items such as a tablet or smartwatch
For more information on GME sponsored activities please visit
their website.
Spring Retreat 2023:
Hiking the Cheesequake State Park
Fall Retreat 2022: Top
Golf
Fall Retreat 2021:
Hiking the Essex County Faerie House Trail
Spring Retreat 2020:
Virtual Group Photo
Some Examples of
Wellbeing Enhancing Activities
Annual Spring retreat 2019
Work can be fun too!
Socializing after work keeps us all healthy and happy
