Educational & Wellness Resources

We recognize that stress negatively impacts academic and intellectual achievement. In addition to promoting a supportive and inclusive environment, local resources are available to facilitate the mental health and well-being of our students, staff, and faculty.

(link to CAPS https://www.studenthealth.virginia.edu/caps)

(link to FEAPS https://uvafeap.com/)

(link to Women’s Center https://womenscenter.virginia.edu/)

Despite our best conscious intentions, every individual has unconscious or implicit biases that can affect our interactions with others. To learn about identifying and mitigating bias consider taking a test (link to https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html) or using the learning resources at UVa (link to: https://dei.virginia.edu/learning-resources)

The University of Virginia was built before the Civil War by enslaved laborers on the traditional land of the Native American Monacan people. Learning about the complicated history of discrimination in the development of the University of Virginia is an important step towards understanding how this legacy may differentially impact members of our community.

(link to https://www.descendantsuva.org/, https://eocr.virginia.edu/monacan)

Graduate Students & Postdoc Groups
Black Graduate & Professional Student Organization

(link to: bgpso.board@gmail.com)

Graduate Bioscience Society

(link to: https://med.virginia.edu/graduate-biosciences-society/)

Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team

(link to: https://med.virginia.edu/bims/students/student-organizations/graduate-recruitment-initiative-team-grit/)

Postdoctoral Association

(https://postdoc.virginia.edu/uva-postdoc-association)

Queer in Medical Sciences at UVa

(link to: lrd3uu@virginia.edu, sc4dx@virginia.edu)

Shades of Sisterhood

(link to: sisterhooduva@gmail.com)

Women in Medical Sciences

(link to: https://wimsuva.wixsite.com/wims-uva)

UVa Campus Resources
Academy for Excellence in Education

https://faculty.med.virginia.edu/facultyaffairs/academy/

Bio-Medical Sciences Graduate Program Diversity, Equity, and Community

(link to: https://med.virginia.edu/bims/student-diversity/)

Career Center

https://career.virginia.edu/DiversityandInclusionResources

Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

https://dei.virginia.edu/

The LGBTQ+ Center

https://lgbtq.virginia.edu/

Multicultural Student Services

https://multicultural.virginia.edu/

Office of African American Affairs

https://oaaa.virginia.edu/

Office for Equal Opportunity, and Civil Rights

https://eocr.virginia.edu/

School of Medicine Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

https://www.som.com/culture/equity-diversity-inclusion/

Student Disability Access Center

(link to: https://studenthealth.virginia.edu/sdac)