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Wellness

Creating and sustaining a healthy community at EVMS that educates, motivates and empowers all institutional members to engage in wellness and fulfillment.

Wellness starts here

EVMS Wellness promotes and guides opportunities for the EVMS community to engage in healthy behaviors through strategies that:

  • Cultivate and support a culture of organizational well-being
  • Develop individuals' strengths through practices that result in sustained vitality
  • Encourage and facilitate individual well-being and resilience
  • Build on individuals' potential, strengths, vitality and adaptability

Wellness starts here

EVMS Wellness promotes and guides opportunities for the EVMS community to engage in healthy behaviors through strategies that:

  • Cultivate and support a culture of organizational well-being
  • Develop individuals' strengths through practices that result in sustained vitality
  • Encourage and facilitate individual well-being and resilience
  • Build on individuals' potential, strengths, vitality and adaptability

 

Elements of wellness

Find out what personal wellness resources are available to you using Health Advocate.

Waldholtz Family Wellness Series

Mindfulness and Medical Education: What I Wish I Had Known in Medical School

  • When: Thursday, February 23, noon to 1 p.m.
  • About: Join Holly Rogers, MD, one of the developers of Koru Mindfulness, an evidence-based program for teaching mindfulness and meditation to college-age adults. She is a co-founder of the Center for Koru Mindfulness, an agency dedicated to developing and delivering mindfulness programs for young adults. Dr. Rogers worked as a psychiatrist at the student counseling center at Duke University for 23 years. She is the co-author with Margaret Maytan of Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives. Her latest book, The Mindful Twenty-Something, is a guide for young adults who wish to learn about using mindfulness and meditation to enhance their journey through emerging adulthood.
  • LocationZoom 
    • Meeting ID: 959 6348 0809
    • Passcode: 447427