Wellness

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CAMARADERIE

Fellows, faculty and friends visit the San Diego Zoo during ASAM.UW Boise fellows work and socialize together, and also with other trainees in the area including: medical students, psychiatry residents, internal medicine residents, family medicine residents, pharmacy residents, nurse practitioner residents, and psychology post-docs. This sense of community is facilitated through co-located work spaces, overlapping rotations, interprofessional retreats and conferences.

Financial Wellness

Our fellows benefit from relatively low cost-of-living and high quality of life in the Boise area. We support fellows through paid medical licenses, professional development and travel, free gym membership, and paid subscriptions to ASAM and ACAAM. Fellows get full healthcare and retirement benefits through the University of Washington.

Physical Wellness

The Boise area has a culture that embraces being outdoors and physically active. Our core hospitals and

Addiction medicine colleagues mountain biking in Boise.

clinics are all near downtown and convenient biking/walking routes abound. The Boise VA has a full gym on campus, a yoga program, and trailhead access  to one of the most premier hiking/running/biking trail systems in the country just 100 yards away.

EMotional & Mental WEllness

UW Boise fellows have free confidential access to counseling through the UW Medicine Graduate Medical Education wellness service and through the Ada County Medical Society Physician Vitality program.