Partnership Building and Social Health Sciences and Programs

• The B.R.I.D.G.E. Initiative connects faculty, trainees, and communities to foster pediatric care, advance scholarship, and support professional growth through focused engagement.

Example projects:

• Recruitment strategies (outreach, holistic review process, workforce development)
• Onboarding programs
• Mentorship programs
• Social networking events

Example projects:

• Curriculum development and implementation
• Training programs including workshops, webinars, leadership development, and approaches to supportive care.
• Mentorship, career development.
• Data collection and assessment (to identify gaps in  knowledge and training within the department).
• Community partnerships
• Recognition and incentives

Example projects:

• Establish a language/marketing team to review current job descriptions, website copy, email, and social media communications.
• Establish a Built Environment Team to review our patient/faculty/staff environments to ensure access to services (bus routes, food pantries, art, signage, consent forms).
• Establish a Patient Feedback Review Team committed to reviewing our patient feedback systems for faculty and to maximize patient opportunities for providing feedback.
• Representation on IRB and Grant Review Committees

• Home Visit Program, a resident-run monthly clinic for well-child and sick visits
• Global Health Leadership Track, a GME-wide program that includes
  opportunities for rotations in various countries
• Back-to-school physicals, outreach vaccinations events, health fairs “in partnership with various community organizations”
• Southwood Community Center
• Social Health Morning Rounds
• Community Health Grants
• Clinical rotations at various pediatric clinics (etc. UVA Pediatric Primary Care locations, International Family Medicine, Population Health Mobile Health Clinic, & Charlottesville Free Clinic)
• UVA provides specialized medical services for youth ages 11 to 26 at the Teen and Young Adult Health Center.

Over the past several years, UVA Pediatrics has actively participated in both regional and national Student National Medical Association (SNMA) conferences to support the recruitment of talented medical students. Each year, the department proudly sponsors one to two residents to attend these conferences as ambassadors.

If interested, there are additional opportunities for residents to participate in the following:

• National Medical Association (NMA)
• Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
• Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA)
• National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)