Georgetown University Medical Center

Letter from the Deans

Section: School of Medicine Prospectus

An educational prospectus cannot do complete justice to the school it portrays. Only direct experience of the institution, its curriculum, and its faculty can provide an accurate measure of educational quality. Nonetheless, the editors of this Prospectus have tried to go beyond an abstract description of departments and courses and offer you a vivid portrait of undergraduate medical education at Georgetown, a portrait fashioned directly from the words of our students. We believe that the result is a faithful account of what it is like to learn to be a physician at Georgetown.

Georgetown's MD degree program is a dynamic one, subject to continuous scrutiny and revision. Despite this vital, necessary process of ongoing change, the overriding aim of medical education at Georgetown remains constant: to offer future physicians a superior and supportive environment for learning the art and the science of medicine. At Georgetown, this is a process which has been educating clinicians and scientists for 150 years.

We both welcome and thank you for your interest in Georgetown University School of Medicine.

 

Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD            Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD
   Executive Vice President                Dean for Medical Education