How to Stand Out On EVMS Secondaries: Prompts and Tips (2024)

The Eastern Virginia Medical School secondary application wants to ensure that you are a premed student who has abundant clinical experiences and have a track record of academic excellence. The Eastern Virginia Medical School secondary essays are not too long and the questions do not change year after year. The EVMS secondary is a great secondary to pre-write. Read below for more EMVS secondary application tipsto help you answer each question!

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1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)
6. Optional: EVMS 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. Please explain in detail if you wish to respond. Some examples include but are not limited to race/ethnicity, culture, LGBTQ+, differently-abled/disabled, etc.

Tips to Answer EVMS Secondaries

Eastern Virginia Pre-Writing Guidance: Because this secondary does not change often, we encourage students to pre-write this secondary application! And, it’s a state school so prioritize submitting this secondary! Per the EVMS website, “Application materials are considered on a rolling basis, starting October 1 (one year before desired matriculation), and are considered until all positions are filled.”

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EVMS Secondary Application Tip #1: We often get asked, “How do you answer the question ‘Briefly describe your exposure to medicine?’” Many EVMS applicants will write a bullet point list about all their clinical experiences, including all their shadowing opportunities. Dr. Rizal’s and Dr. Mediratta’s goals are to make you stand out from the rest of the applicants. So, we suggest the following:

1. An overall narrative arc about your journey and lessons learned through your clinical experiences
2. A list of your clinical experiences, but write 2-3 sentences per clinical experience. Focus on what you learned and your reflections on how that clinical experience will make you be a better physician.

Contact us if you have questions about how to answer this EVMS secondary essay.

EVMS Secondary Application Tip #2: The Eastern Virginia Medical School secondary essays “What do you think you will like best about being a physician?” and “What do you think you will like least about being a physician?” don’t contain any tricks or special meaning. Don’t try to write the “right answer” on your EVMS secondaries. Instead, follow your heart and gut about what excites you most and what scares you most about medicine. The content in these essays should complement your personal statement on your AMCAS primary application. For example, if you wrote about teaching a patient about his health, you can talk about how you are excited to educate your patients as a future physician.

EVMS Secondary Application Tip #3:EVMS is a community-oriented school and they want to recruit medical students who are interested in serving the Virginia community in the future. It is important to note this in your EVMS secondaries. Additionally, make sure to read our blog post about How to Answer “Why This Medical School?” for tips on how to answer “Why EVMS?”

EVMS Secondary Application Tip #4: The EVMS Admissions Committee favors students who have lived or had experiences in the state of Virginia. Write about your ties to communities in Virginia, including growing up in Virginia or currently living in Virginia or Washington D.C.! Additionally, give specific ways you want to be involved with the local Virginia community in your EVMS secondaries. Many medical students at EVMS’ student body do residency in Virginia and pursue clinical practice in Virginia when they are attending doctors.

EVMS Secondary Application Tip #5:Include stories as much as possible. Ideally, you should write patient stories from your clinical experiences. For example, you can add stories for the following prompts:

• Briefly describe your exposure to medicine.
• What do you think you will like best about being a physician?
• What do you think you will like the least about being a physician?

EVMS Secondary Application Tip #5: Get our help to edit your EVMS secondaries. We can help you through our secondary essay packages.

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1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)

1. Briefly describe your exposure to medicine. (2,000 characters max)
2. What do you think you will like best about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
3. What do you think you will like the least about being a physician? (2,000 characters max)
4. Describe yourself and your medical career as you see it ten years from now. (2,000 characters max)
5. Please indicate your reasons for applying to EVMS. (2,000 characters max)