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

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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

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Emotional wellness

Acknowledging your feelings and building resilience in the face of stress and challenges

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Environmental wellness

Preserving an interest in making a positive impact on nature and your environment

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Financial wellness

Managing expenses to minimize stress

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Intellectual wellness

Pursuing a desire to learn and a curiosity to understand new ideas and experiences

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Occupational wellness

Learning new skills, addressing challenges and allowing for work-life balance to gain fulfillment from your career

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Physical wellness

Developing healthy physical activity and eating habits for personal health

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Social wellness

Building relationships, connecting with others and creating time for leisure activities with friends

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Spiritual wellness

Making time to explore purpose, inner peace, mindfulness and connectedness

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Waldholtz Family Wellness Series

The Promotion of Kindness as a Stress Reduction, Well-Being Intervention for Patients, Staff, Students and Trainees

  • When: Wednesday, June 8, noon to 1 p.m.
  • About: Join David Fryburg, MD, President and co-founder of Envision Kindness, a non-profit to promote kindness, compassion, joy, and love in health care and elsewhere through kindness media. Fryburg is also the author of a blog series entitled the “Science of Kindness” distributed by Psychology Today and other outlets. In his other professional work, Fryburg has led teams of scientists from academia, government and industry to solve problems in how we measure or diagnose disease for the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Biomarkers Consortium. Fryburg was previously a faculty member of the University of Virginia as well as global head of translational medicine for cardiovascular, metabolic and endocrine diseases at Pfizer.
  • Location: Zoom 
    • Meeting ID: 954 0062 7896
    • Passcode: 910234
Contact Us

Eastern Virginia Medical School
Wellness
P.O. Box 1980
Norfolk, VA 23501