VA Guidelines for Students

The program is currently open to all US medical school students. We apologize that we cannot accommodate international students at this time.
Communications between advisors and medical students should follow professional standards. Advisors are expected to respond to your messages within a week, unless they are out of the country.
Every attempt will be made to assign an appropriate volunteer advisor, however, if a problem should arise, the student may contact SAEM to have the problem addressed by members of the Undergraduate Education Committee. SAEM's primary role is to assist in the establishment of the relationship between advisor and advisee and cannot oversee all communications.
Mentors cannot guarantee special circumstances for their virtual advisees. The VA program is not intended to connect students with faculty at, or facilitate matching to, a specific (i.e. the VA's) residency program.
SAEM and the VA are not responsible for a given student's eventual match result. Working with a VA does not guarantee a residency spot.
Participants in the virtual advisor program maybe asked to complete a survey regarding the experience at the end of the program.