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  • Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Allopathic Medical School
  • Norfolk, VA
Individual Feedback 5 6 Responses
The Basics

Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?

Response Avg # Responders
6.83 6

0 = Terrible, 10 = World Class

What do you like most?

"Great faculty, great partnerships with Norfolk General Hospital + Sentara Hospital systems. Use retired NBME questions. Great community" | Report Response

"Faculty and administration, to this point, are very supportive. Exams are fair, student feedback has been appreciated in instances I have seen. Very tolerant and open from the top down." | Report Response

"Facilities are somewhat modern" | Report Response

"The system of honors/high pass/pass/fail fosters a team learning environment where people will post study guides, helpful material from the masters program. You'll have a class of very unique people from different backgrounds - so get to know the ones that you do get along with and stick with them." | Report Response

"Close knit, community oriented, You feel like you make a difference at the school and in the community, you don't have to move for rotations 3rd and 4th year" | Report Response

"Most faculty are nice and approachable, surgeons are very approachable" | Report Response

What do you like least?

"n/a" | Report Response

"The school does a lot to link their curriculum with NBME exams but there is some reluctance by certain instructors to accept the most useful resources in favor of what they prefer." | Report Response

"Faculty often with little or no regard for the betterment of students and instead prefer their convenience (eg clerkship placements, mandatory attendance at lectures simply for presenter ego)" | Report Response

"Random scheduling. Some days you have class starting at 9, othertimes it's 8, 10, 11. Sometimes, it's mandatory and other times it's scheduled for online lectures. The online lectures vary in quality - can be very well done or very poorly executed and you end up having to use the powerpoint/objectives and finding your own resources to learn it yourself (google, textbooks, etc)." | Report Response

"Children's Hospital still has paper charts, but moving to electronic system soon." | Report Response

"Physiology department is without the worst excuse for an academic department. Absolutely don't care about teaching or helping students." | Report Response

The Details

Does the student body seem cooperative or competitive?

Response Avg # Responders
8.00 4

0 = Competitive, 10 = Cooperative

Does the environment seem supportive for underrepresented minorities?

Response Avg # Responders
8.75 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual students?

Response Avg # Responders
9.50 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for married students?

Response Avg # Responders
9.75 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for students with disabilities?

Response Avg # Responders
8.00 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Does the environment seem supportive for older/non-traditional students?

Response Avg # Responders
9.75 4

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

Do you/did you feel well prepared for your board exams?

Response Avg # Responders
9.50 2

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

How approachable are faculty members?

Response Avg # Responders
8.40 5

0 = Not at all, 10 = Very

What are the facilities and clinics like (old/new, well maintained, etc.)?

"some new buildings, even the older ones are well maintained and renovated." | Report Response

"Some of the facilities are a little older (within 20 years still) but the newest building is nice, open and probably the most popular place to congregate" | Report Response

How do students from this program do after graduation - are they adequately prepared for practice?

"I have had multiple friends graduate from EVMS MD program and they say that they feel as if evms prepared them well for residency. Ultrasound curriculum and clinical skills curriculum with standardized patients start day 1 of M1 year and extend until graduation" | Report Response

"Excellent; Deans always talk about receiving phone calls from program directors stating how great the students from EVMS are" | Report Response

"Generally do very well." | Report Response

What are rotations like?

"primarily close by with partnership hospitals. 6 week rotations, mostly local. last week of rotations is used as dedicated period for shelf exams. The farthest people are assigned are in Newport News (45 min drive away) for their family medicine or OB rotation." | Report Response

"5" | Report Response

How do students from this program do in the Match?

No responses

Any other information you want to share?

"n/a" | Report Response

"I think EVMS really walks the walk with community focus. Many of the issues, especially with quality of life, that other medical schools have I honestly have had trouble relating to at EVMS. The curriculum is constantly reassessed and currently structured in a way that I think is conducive to reducing overall stress (still stressful obviously) but I have never felt that faculty and staff were not accepting to feedback." | Report Response

"The school itself is pretty small; testing center opened in 2015 is 0.5-0.6 miles from the actual campus so getting to tests the day of - you have to drive over and just park on nearby residential neighborhoods. It's a hassle compared to the old system: where tests are held on campus, you bring your own laptops into the lecture room and take the proctored exam (you have much more time before/after to study on campus or prepare for class after exams)." | Report Response

"Excellent professors and top notch education. People come in with lower scores compared to national, but board scores are often 1 SD above national mean." | Report Response

"Not very strong in the pre-clinical years, but very highly regarded in the clinical years. Chair of Surgery is also president of ACS (LD Britt). Lots of pull there." | Report Response

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