School of Medicine

Balanced Lifestyle and Resident Well-Being

Promoting Resident Wellness and Balanced Lifestyles

We value the importance of a physician’s own health behavior in fostering quality in their personal life.  Therefore, resident wellness is a high priority in this program with bi-monthly didactic lectures coupled with ongoing experiential learning activities that support the health and well-being of residents, while they also go about the task of learning how to become agents of health and well-being in the lives of their patients.  We encompass the concept of whole person care in our educational program with resident wellness activities such as:

1. Exercise facility with supervision
2. Personalized stress management programs
3. Lifestyle assessments for 1st year residents
4. Social outings for residents and families
5. Healthy nutritional options in Doctor’s Dining Room
6. Individualized learning plans for personal wellness

   Comments from Residents on WSU DFMPHS Family Medicine Residency Experience

7. Access to community based programs that support self-management

We Highly Value:

1. Resident input/open door policy
2. Excellent resident – faculty rapport
3. Personalized Learning Goals
4. Ongoing Faculty Mentoring
5. Personal and professional growth
6. Regularly scheduled social activities
1. Picnics
2. Cross-cultural luncheons
3. Sporting events
4. Celebration of Nurse’s and Doctor’s day
5. Acknowledgement of personal achievements
   and special family events