Resident Wellness

Resident Wellness Committee

The Resident Wellness Committee (RWC) is charged with improving the resident experience through grass-roots housestaff engagement. RWC members are passionate about positively impacting resident well-being and developing and executing activities that further this goal, with an emphasis on creativity.

Each Internal Medicine Family and year is represented on the committee. We also have two Wellness Champions who are current residents who act as leadership, one medicine Wellness Chief, and our faculty advisor that round out the committee.

The wellness committee received funding from UTHSC, and has promoted wellness through workroom Keurig machines, sponsoring popsicles and coffee/donut days, themed lunches, and hosting events that range from bowling to bake-offs. We are thankful for their work!

Wellness Champions: Chrissy Miller, MD and  Neha Bhaskar, MD
Wellness Chief Resident: Kathy Lutchi, MD
Wellness Faculty Sponser: Desiree Burroughs-Ray, MD

Association of Black Residents (ABRM)

UTHSC recognizes that diversity drives excellence in health care. In the UTHSC Internal Medicine Residency Program, we strive to make our resident workforce as diverse as the population of Memphis. The Association of Black Residents in Medicine (ABRM) is an organization striving to edify, encourage, and empower black residents here at UT to clinical excellence and professional vitality. ABRM achieves this goal through community building between black residents across specialties, dedicated mentorship for medicine and medicine-pediatric black residents by faculty, and education to facilitate the success of black residents in and out of the clinical setting.