Department of Urology

Clerkships/Visiting Students

We welcome visiting students from other LCME-accredited U.S. medical schools to EVMS. Each year several students spend a senior elective with us. The guidelines are listed below.

Guidelines for Elective Application and Registration of
Visiting Students

1. All visiting students must apply through the Office of Education, Eastern Virginia Medical School, P.O. Box 1980, Norfolk, VA 23501 (757-446-8416). If a student contacts a department, the student should be referred to the Office of Education. Confirmation for electives is given by the Office of Education. Only persons currently enrolled in an accredited medical school are eligible to apply for admission to electives at EVMS.
2. Visiting students may only apply for senior electives. A visiting student must have satisfactorily completed all basic science courses (including physical diagnosis) and, by the starting date of the requested elective, the applicant must have completed satisfactorily a minimum of thirty-six weeks of full-time clinical experience during which the student's primary responsibility was to follow patients on a teaching service. This experience must include at least four separate disciplines from among the following: Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and General Surgery. Experience in each of the four disciplines must be for a duration of at least four weeks.
3. An elective application must be completed and approved by the visiting student's medical school official authorizing the elective no later than four weeks prior to the beginning of an elective.
4. Each request for an elective must have the approval of the Urology Department and the Office of Education.
5. In most cases, confirmation for electives are given no more than 60 days prior to the beginning of the elective as EVMS students have priority on all electives.
6. Each student must register with the EVMS Registrar's office prior to beginning the elective. A registration fee must be paid to the Registrar on or prior to the first day of the elective. A student ID card will be issued at the EVMS Human Resources Office following registration.
7. Proof of adequate health insurance coverage must be presented at the time of registration.
8. Each student is responsible for obtaining accommodations during his/her stay here. There is a network of students who regularly offer accommodations for visiting students; this can be arranged through the EVMS Office of Student Affairs (757-446-5805).
9. EVMS will provide evaluations to the sponsoring institutions, but credit for elective experiences will be given by the institution granting the medical degree to the student.

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