Residency Experience

Community

As residents spend three years together, they form a bonds that will last a lifetime.  They become more than just residents and professional colleagues.  They become close friends and a tight knit family.

Welcome Reception

The Program Director welcomes the new residents and their families in the summer, inviting them to a Welcome Picnic at a local park. This provides an opportunity for the newly arriving families to get to know each other, and starts the yearly resident social season.

Resident Retreat

Each year the residency program organizes a one-day retreat. This can be a day of discussion on careers, coping with stress, time management, life boards, team bonding activities, and various other topics that the program chooses.

Nights Out

Each residency class is given a special night for a fun group event, including a night on the town free from hospital duties. In the fall, the PGY1 class has a group night out, the second-years have a night of fun in the winter, and the PGY3 class then has a night all their own in the spring.

Graduation Dinner

At the conclusion of the academic year, we hold a formal graduation awards ceremony that brings together all residents and their families. This event is a wonderful opportunity to bid farewell and extend our best wishes to those graduating from the program, while also welcoming the new residents. We’re pleased to share the evening with our fellow graduates from Cardiology, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, and Gastroenterology, as they receive their certificates and any awards from their respective specialty programs.

Resident-directed Social Events

Residents volunteer at the beginning of the academic year to become the social chairs for that year.  Those residents than organize social events where residents, faculty, program staff and their families can spend free time together at picnics, pizza parties, or perhaps competing in a friendly game of soccer or basketball.