Old Dominion University Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based university-affiliated internal medicine program (EVMS/ODU) training residents primarily at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, a Level I trauma and quaternary transplant/cardiac referral center, alongside the Hampton VA Medical Center and a high-volume charity-care ambulatory clinic serving uninsured Norfolk residents. The program explicitly supports both fellowship and hospitalist/general medicine career paths, reflecting a dual-track identity rather than a singular academic or primary-care mission. Every resident completes an individually designed, IRB-approved research project presented at an annual research day, with active encouragement toward ACP and subspecialty national meeting presentations, indicating research is a structured expectation rather than optional enrichment. Distinctive structural features include a short-call/long-call intern system limiting overnight frequency, three years of continuity clinic in the safety-net ambulatory setting, procedural exposure across four distinct ICUs, and combined Medicine-Geriatrics training with VA-based aging/nutrition research.