Mission

Vision

Eastern Virginia Medical School will be recognized as the most community-oriented medical school in the nation.

Values

Three core values drive our daily efforts:

• Excellence: We determine with our stakeholders what is valuable and hold ourselves to high performance standards that fulfill our promises.
• Collegiality: We serve our community and one another, building strong and mutually supportive relationships. We work as a cooperative, united team to further our purposes of education, research and patient care.
• Integrity: We strive to maintain the highest ethical standards and accept accountability for all we do and say.

Goals

To fulfill our mission and vision, we must be strategically focused on the areas that provide the greatest leverage for effecting change in our academic health center and our greater community. To that end, EVMS has identified seven long-term goals:

• Cultural Alignment: Strengthen our entire organization's collective pursuit of our mission, vision, and values.
• Education: Enhance the knowledge, skills and values required for the EVMS community to excel in our chosen professions and to respond to current and emerging societal needs.
• Research: Enhance and strengthen our research enterprise in order to improve communityand national health.
• Patient Care: Enhance our clinical enterprise to provide the highest quality patient care distinguished by our research and academic clinicians.
• Affiliates: Strengthen relationships with our affiliates by determining and delivering value.
• Finances and Funding: Ensure ongoing financial stability.
• Marketing: Strengthen our brand awareness and reputation to increase preference and support from students, patients, physicians and the community.