1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans-Specific Education for Tomorrow’s Medical Doctors Act or the VET MD Act . 2. Pilot program for clinical observation by pre-med students (a) Establishment The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall carry out a pilot program to provide undergraduate students a clinical observation experience at medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (b) Duration The Secretary shall carry out the pilot program under subsection (a) for a three-year period beginning not later than August 15, 2020. (c) Goals The Secretary shall ensure that the pilot program under subsection (a) meets the following goals: (1) Increases the awareness, knowledge, and empathy of future medical professionals toward the medical conditions common to veterans. (2) Increases the diversity of the recruitment pool of future physicians of the Department. (3) Provides a diverse clinical observation experience commensurate with the standard expectations for medical school applications. (4) Expands clinical observation opportunities for all students by encouraging students of all backgrounds to consider a career in medicine. (d) Medical center selection The Secretary shall select not fewer than five medical centers of the Department to carry out the pilot program under subsection (a). In selecting such medical centers, the Secretary shall ensure regional diversity among such selected medical centers. (e) Clinical observation sessions (1) Sessions The Secretary shall ensure that each medical center of the Department selected under subsection (d) provides clinical observation sessions as follows: (A) Each session shall allow for, to the extent practicable, not fewer than 20 students to participate in the session, which shall consist of not fewer than 60 observational hours. (B) Each center shall carry out three sessions per calendar year, from four to six months in duration with minimal overlap. (C) A majority of the observational hours shall be spent observing a practicing physician. The other