Enhanced Medical Education

EMET Statistics

• Currently about 240 students (M1-M4) participate in an EMET.

• 2023, 74 applicants with 55 accepted = 74% acceptance rate.

• 2024, 96 applicants with 71 accepted = 74% acceptance rate.

• M4 EMET students present a culmination of their work via a capstone project.  This occurs annually the day before Match Day in the Davis Global Center.

View previous EMET M4 Capstones.

 

Current Enhanced Medical Education Tracks

Applicants are selected for Enhanced Medical Education Tracks based on their interest in the topic and motivation to complete work above and beyond the primary MD curriculum.

View the current EMET tracks and descriptions.

Application

Complete the online application. If you apply for multiple tracks, complete the application in order of preferred choice. The form will automatically close at 11:59pm on October 20th, 2025.

The application will be available following the EMET Expo on October 2nd, 2025 at 1:00 PM CST.

• Enhanced Medical Education Tracks

  EMET applicants are selected for Tracks based on their interest in the topic and motivation to complete work above and beyond the primary MD curriculum.

EMET with MD Honor's Thesis Program

Interested students who have applied to an enhanced track in their M1 year as outlined above and have been accepted may decide at any time that they would also like to complete the honors thesis program. This is possible, but they will still have to meet all of the requirements of each program as outlined in the handbook.

If the student decides to perform the honor's thesis program with a different mentor or in a completely different area of research, there is no conflict with the enhanced track program. A statement to this effect should be included and documented in the research proposal submitted to the Research & Development Committee at UNMC for its review and approval, by January of the junior year.

However, if the student continues to work with the same mentor and/or on a similar research area, then the following must be addressed:

1. The mentor and student must specify how the enhanced track project is different from the honor's thesis project as part of their research proposal, submitted by January of the junior year, for review and approval by the Research & Development Committee at UNMC. The committee is tasked with ensuring the originality and independence of this research project from the enhanced track project.
2. Additional proof must be submitted to the committee for evaluation at the time of the submission of the honor's thesis in the form of an appendix of the enhanced track  project, detailing; background, hypotheses, methods, results, and discussion.