Doctor of Medicine graduates at Commencement 2024

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Take caregiving beyond the classroom and beyond the clinic with a medical school that values community.

Start your career in medicine

Earn your medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where care and caregiving are at our core. Our MD students excel, regularly exceeding national averages for first-time STEP pass rates and residency match rates. 

MD program benefits

See patients on Day 1

Spend your first day working with standardized patients in the Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning.

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

Use the field’s leading technologies in your first weeks with our robust ultrasound curriculum.

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

Present and take an active role in rounds while working with diverse patient populations at several hospital locations.

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.

See patients on Day 1

Spend your first day working with standardized patients in the Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning.

Early ultrasound training

Use the field’s leading technologies in your first weeks with our robust ultrasound curriculum.

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.

Varied training environments

Present and take an active role in rounds while working with diverse patient populations at several hospital locations.

See patients on Day 1

Spend your first day working with standardized patients in the Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning.

Early ultrasound training

Use the field’s leading technologies in your first weeks with our robust ultrasound curriculum.

Varied training environments

Present and take an active role in rounds while working with diverse patient populations at several hospital locations.

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.

Where we match

Match Day is a day of celebration for MD students everywhere, but especially here, where the number of graduating students who match with a residency program regularly surpasses the national average. See where our students match and how we’ve prepared them for residency.

CareForward Curriculum

The CareForward Curriculum guides us as we:

  • educate caring, compassionate and skillful caregivers
  • prepare students for residency and careers in medicine
  • give students the knowledge to competently navigate the healthcare system

The American Medical Association has tapped EVMS to join a nationwide consortium of 32 medical schools working to reshape the future of medical education. See how our award-winning curriculum makes a difference.

Fiora McRae headshot

The path to medical school

Meet Fiora McRae, MD Class of 2020, who did not have a traditional undergraduate experience.

She shares how she overcame obstacles and what steps she took to become an ideal medicine candidate with the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Need a step up? Prepare to matriculate into medical school with our one- or two-year Biomedical Sciences - Medical master's programs.