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Infographic: 4 Tips for Effective Residency Programs

Analysis  |  By Christopher Cheney  
   January 29, 2025

The new chief clinical officer of Virtua Health shares her best practices for creating residency programs.

Jennifer Khelil, DO, MBA, led the creation of residency programs at Virtua Health before becoming the health system's chief clinical officer.

Khelil was promoted to executive vice president and chief clinical officer of Virtua early this month. She had served as CMO of the health system since 2019 and was previously vice president of medical affairs starting in 2013.

Virtua has added several residency programs to the institution over the past five years, including residencies in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, and psychiatry. The health system has a fellowship program in cardiology and will be adding an anesthesiology residency program.

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Christopher Cheney is the CMO editor at HealthLeaders.


KEY TAKEAWAYS

Part of running successful residency programs is having faculty engagement and faculty who are excited about teaching.

Another key to success is selecting the right residents who fit your organization's culture.

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