Eastern Virginia Medical School

Eastern Virginia Medical School
MottoCommunity focus. World impact.
TypePublic medical school
Established1973 (1973)
Academic affiliation
Liaison Committee on Medical Education
Endowment$113.2 million (2020)
PresidentAlfred Z. Abuhamad
Vice-presidentC. Donald Combs
Academic staff
574
Students1,261
Postgraduates578
683
Location, ,
U.S.

36°51′38″N 76°18′09″W / 36.860556°N 76.3025°W / 36.860556; -76.3025
CampusUrban, 500 acres (2.02 km2)
ColorsEVMS Blue and Black
   
Websitewww.evms.edu

Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), part of the Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University, commonly known as Virginia Health Sciences, is a public medical school in Norfolk, Virginia operated by Old Dominion University. Founded by grassroots efforts in the Southeastern part of Virginia known as Hampton Roads, EVMS had historically not been affiliated with an undergraduate institution and therefore coordinates training through multiple medical centers in the Hampton Roads region. Effective on July 1, 2024, the nearby Old Dominion University merged with EVMS to create a comprehensive university with EVMS being the medical school component of the larger university.

The campus includes the Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, the region's only tertiary level 1 trauma medical care facility, and the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, a regional pediatric referral care facility and only stand-alone children's hospital in the state. EVMS is the first institution in the US to have produced a viable fetus through in vitro fertilization. EVMS is most known for its reproductive medicine and simulation/standardized-patient education as well as research in pediatrics, geriatrics, diabetes, cancer, and neuroscience.