Contract and Benefits

SUMMARY INFORMATION FOR ALL APPOINTMENTS

Benefits information for 2025-26 coming soon.

• Sample Contract

Salary

The table below lists housestaff compensation for 2026-27. Determination of PGY Salary Levels is based on the Graduate Medical Education Committee’s Stipend Policy. Residents and fellows receive payment on a biweekly basis.

* Per pay period cost above based on 26 pay periods

Policies

Core Policies

• Assessment, Promotion, Discipline and Dismissal Policy
• Duty Hours Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Leave and Vacation Policy
• Moonlighting Policy
• Eligibility and Selection Policy
• Discrimination Policy
• Well-being Policy
• Supervision of Trainees Policy
• Transitions of Care
• Survey Use in the Resident Population 
• Sex-Based Misconduct Policy
• Educational Rotation Policy
• Program Letter of Agreement Terms and Conditions
• Stipend Policy

For assistance accessing any of these policies, please contact gmeadmin@vcuhealth.org.

Terms and Conditions of Service

The housestaff is responsible to the Medical Staff for the professional care of patients‌ and to the Administration for compliance with policies and regulations of the Hospital and Medical or Dental School.

Residents are graduate (medical or dental) students and their relationship with the institutions is an educational and training relationship. Residents are compensated as employees of the VCU Health Systems of Virginia Commonwealth University, but the resident’s employment relationship with the VCU Health System, which consists of MCV Hospitals, School of Medicine clinical departments, and MCV Physicians, is derivative of and dependent upon the resident’s continued enrollment as a graduate (medical or dental) student of the University.

Residents are assigned by the program director or his/her designee. Special preference and interests should be made known to the program director. Any necessary change because of illness, other emergencies, or the need for prolonged training must be made by the resident with the appropriate program director in consultation with the Director of Graduate Medical Education.

The chief resident, the faculty member on duty, and the departmental chairman of each service are responsible for the activities of the residents on each service as stated in the department’s supervision document. The medical staff and the administration are very interested in the general welfare of all patients, students, and housestaff.