Eastern Virginia - Secondary Essay Prompts

1 .Briefly describe your exposure to medicine.

2 .What do you think you will like best about being a physician?

3 .What do you think you will like least about being a physician?

4 .Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now.

5 .Please indicate your reasons for applying to VHS-EVMS at ODU.

6 .[optional] VHS-EVMS at ODU is dedicated to inclusivity and supporting patients and students from diverse backgrounds. Feel free to share your personal experience or ties to communities from diverse backgrounds. If you wish to respond, please explain in detail. Some examples include but are not limited to race/ethnicity, culture, LGBTQ+, differently-abled/disabled, etc.

7 .[optional] If you would like to discuss how your individual background, perspective, or experience, including any societal or other barriers, have affected your life, through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise, feel free to share your experiences, obstacles overcome, and how this impacted your education and road to applying to medical school.