All Posts: News Stories

• One Tent Health Student Volunteers Gain Clinical Experience in Community Settings

  Category: News Stories Tag: community outreach

• GUMC Students Focus on Giving Back This Holiday Season

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, student experience

• Nursing and Medical Students Debate Ethical Dilemmas as Pellegrino Student Scholars

  Category: News Stories Tags: bioethics, cura personalis, Pellegrino Scholars, student experience

• Veterans Day 2022: Stories from GUMC Student Veterans

  Category: News Stories Tags: military service, student experience, student veterans

• Medical Center Deans Discuss Future of Health at GU Black Alumni Summit

  Category: News Stories Tags: health disparities, racial disparities, racial justice

• Medical Students Train Congressional Staffers on Opioid Overdose Reversal

  (October 1, 2022) — Medical students from the student-run organization Hoya DOPE (Drug Overdose Prevention & Education) led a bystander training for congressional staffers on Capitol Hill on September 28.  Hoya DOPE student leaders Ruth Watson (M’23), Kira Chandran (M’23), Pei-Ying Kobres (M’23), and John Lim (M’22) led the training, which was hosted by the […]

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, opioid epidemic, student experience

• Georgetown Students Help Recently Arrived Refugees Navigate the U.S. Health Care System

  (September 29, 2022) — After a community-based learning project highlighted the challenges faced by refugees in picking up medication from a pharmacy, a group of medical students created a new program — the Health Navigator Program — to match students to families to broaden the assistance they could provide. “The refugee community is often overlooked […]

  Category: News Stories Tags: Health Navigator Program, refugees, service to others, student experience

• Nursing, Medical Students Administer Flu Shots

  Category: News Stories Tags: service to others, student experience, student flu clinic

• Georgetown Nursing and Medical Students and Faculty Participate in Health Leadership Academy

  Category: News Stories Tags: student experience, student leadership

• Latino Medical Students Strive to Increase Health Access and Build a Sense of Community

  (September 23, 2022) — During National Hispanic Heritage Month, the School of Medicine’s Latino American Student Association (LMSA) is bringing awareness to the health needs of the Latine community and building a sense of community for Latine graduate students across Georgetown’s campuses through thoughtful programming. Created just four years ago, the LMSA chapter’s current nine […]

  Category: News Stories Tags: cultural competence, health disparities, Latino American Student Association