See patients on Day 1

As national leaders in medical modeling and simulation, we provide you with early experience working with standardized patients and practicing with lifelike simulations.

Early ultrasound training

As early adopters of ultrasound use in teaching, our ultrasound curriculum is ahead of the curve. From your first week, you will explore the technology that doctors are using on a daily basis across the country and around the world.

Varied training environments

As a student at a medical school without its own hospital, you will have opportunities to train in a variety of hospitals — from a level 1 trauma center to a children's hospital to military and community hospitals — and more than 150 partnering clinical practices in our region.

You are a valued member of a patient's healthcare team early on, and this experience pays off: Program directors praise our students' advanced abilities during clinical rotations.

First Response

Aimed primarily at emergency health events, these initiatives focus on first response. 

Bystander CPR: Students teach CPR classes and study the region's struggles surrounding cardiac events in the community.

Community Stroke Awareness: Students develop and teach community classes to speed effective response to stroke.

Stop the Bleed: Students learn and teach the public lifesaving responses to bleeding emergencies.

Nutrition and Exercise

Diabetes and obesity are two prevalent issues in the region. Initiatives in this pathway focus on nutrition and exercise.

Choosing Healthy Options for Wellness (CHOW): Students teach nutritious eating and exercise.

LIFT: Students work with homeless clients over 30-, 60- and 90-day periods teaching nutrition, exercise and life skills.

P.B. Young: Students work at an elementary school in a large public housing project. They read and play with the children and conduct nutrition education.

Underserved and Health Inequities

Initiatives in this pathway focus on those who do not readily have access to healthcare.

Community Innovations: Students analyze audiences, conduct group needs assessments and design effective programs for community health literacy.

Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation: Students assist those struggling with addiction at the Salvation Army Rehab Center.

Environmental Health: Students research potential environmental sources of illness, such as harmful agents in air, water, food and soil, and propose solutions. 

HOPES Student Run Free Clinic: Students work in various capacities at this free clinic run by EVMS students.

Let's All Take a Breath: Students learn the skills necessary to conduct community-engaged research in a topic of interest with a true master.

Mothers and Baby Mermaids: Students become navigators with young mothers to help them journey through the pregnancy experience.

Street Health: Students work with Norfolk's Office to End Homelessness to find and conduct initial health screening for the community's unsheltered homeless population.

YMCA After-School (James Monroe Elementary): Students work in an urban school setting, conduct needs assessments and design health literacy programs.

The Elderly and Chronically Ill

The elderly represent a rapidly growing demographic in Eastern Virginia. Initiatives in this pathway focus on the elderly, chronically ill or disabled.

Beyond Clinic Walls: Students work with Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia and visit elderly residents, identifying and responding to their needs.

Hotspotters: Students develop options for patients with multiple conditions to reduce their need for frequent care.

Infectious Disease

Eastern Virginia is home to a higher proportion of individuals living with HIV/AIDS than anywhere else in Virginia. Initiatives in this pathway currently focus on individuals living with HIV/AIDS or STIs.

HIV Treatment Quality Improvement: Students assess treatment quality in the Eastern Health District of Virginia and design and test process improvements.

STI Focused Community Needs Assessment: Students analyze needs relating to STIs in the Eastern Health District of Virginia highlighting potential high-return interventions or processes.

Global Health Equity

Global health inequities are community issues around the world, and these challenges have an impact on Hampton Roads. These initiatives focus on addressing these inequities.

Medical Spanish: Students work with Spanish-speaking patients and earn a Spanish Bilingual Clinician Certification.

Refugee Health: Students partner with local resettlement agencies to improve the health of refugees and health-related systems they experience.

Medical French: Students work with French-speaking patients and earn a French Clinician Certification through Alliance Française.