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Emily Stutheit
Emily Stutheit’s desire to become a doctor started with helping her father, a single dad, raise her younger sister, Kate.
“That’s when I realized that helping people made me feel really valuable,” says Ms. Stutheit, 22, a first-year medical student at EVMS. She received the 2022-2023 MD Alumni Scholarship, which provides tuition assistance.
“I want to be a doctor and help as many people as I can,” she says. She wants to form long-term connections with patients and play a role in the community.
While she’s keeping an open mind about which field of medicine to pursue, she is interested in obstetrics and gynecology. She enjoyed working as a doula at North Carolina Women’s Hospital in Chapel Hill while she was an undergraduate studying biology at UNC Chapel Hill with a double minor in chemistry and medical anthropology. She also interned with an addiction treatment program while in college.
Ms. Stutheit wanted to attend EVMS because of the school’s emphasis on community. “A lot of medical schools talk about ‘community is really important to us, service is important to us,’ ” she says. “At EVMS, I really felt it.”
EVMS integrates community volunteering into the curriculum, she says. “It really seems like, ‘We want to teach you how to be a good person, and that will make you a good physician,’ ” she says.
Ms. Stutheit is very grateful for the scholarship because it means she doesn’t have to worry about finding the money to pay for school, allowing her to fully focus on her studies as well as volunteer. She’s part of REVIVE!, a Community-Engaged Learning program in which medical students lead trainings and research projects to better define Hampton Roads’ opioids crisis and barriers to care.
She also is excited about getting to meet alumni through the scholarship and learn as much as she can from them. “These are the people who have been where I am and they are already at places I am dreaming of being way, way down the line,” she says. She values the peace of mind that comes from knowing that these alumni “already have my back.”
Emily Stutheit’s desire to become a doctor started with helping her father, a single dad, raise her younger sister, Kate.
“That’s when I realized that helping people made me feel really valuable,” says Ms. Stutheit, 22, a first-year medical student at EVMS. She received the 2022-2023 MD Alumni Scholarship, which provides tuition assistance.
“I want to be a doctor and help as many people as I can,” she says. She wants to form long-term connections with patients and play a role in the community.
While she’s keeping an open mind about which field of medicine to pursue, she is interested in obstetrics and gynecology. She enjoyed working as a doula at North Carolina Women’s Hospital in Chapel Hill while she was an undergraduate studying biology at UNC Chapel Hill with a double minor in chemistry and medical anthropology. She also interned with an addiction treatment program while in college.
Ms. Stutheit wanted to attend EVMS because of the school’s emphasis on community. “A lot of medical schools talk about ‘community is really important to us, service is important to us,’ ” she says. “At EVMS, I really felt it.”
EVMS integrates community volunteering into the curriculum, she says. “It really seems like, ‘We want to teach you how to be a good person, and that will make you a good physician,’ ” she says.
Ms. Stutheit is very grateful for the scholarship because it means she doesn’t have to worry about finding the money to pay for school, allowing her to fully focus on her studies as well as volunteer. She’s part of REVIVE!, a Community-Engaged Learning program in which medical students lead trainings and research projects to better define Hampton Roads’ opioids crisis and barriers to care.
She also is excited about getting to meet alumni through the scholarship and learn as much as she can from them. “These are the people who have been where I am and they are already at places I am dreaming of being way, way down the line,” she says. She values the peace of mind that comes from knowing that these alumni “already have my back.”
