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Golden Apple Awards 2024: Celebrating the GUSOM Community
Georgetown University School of Medicine faculty, students and staff were honored during the annual Golden Apple Awards ceremony April 1 at the Gaylord National Hotel at National Harbor.
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Trimming Heart Disease Risk, One Haircut at a Time
An award-winning policy proposal from Georgetown School of Medicine students explores the role of barbershops in improving heart health in DC.
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School of Medicine Student Organizes Community Course To Bring Dermatological Education to Underserved Communities
After learning about a dermatology curriculum developed for school-age children by medical students, medical student Umayr Shaikh started making plans to organize a new community-based learning course bringing dermatological education to underserved elementary school students.
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Health Justice Scholars Share Passion for Future Patients
For Health Justice Week 2024, fourth-year medical students on the Health Justice Scholar longitudinal academic track shared their capstone presentations on topics including barriers to health equity for transgender patients, how COVID-19 affected those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, addressing food insecurity and more.
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Nursing, Medical Students Honor the Gift of Anatomical Donors
Students from Georgetown’s School of Medicine and School of Nursing came together to honor and pay respect to those who donated their bodies to benefit their education, and to express gratitude to their families, at the annual interfaith Anatomical Donor Memorial Celebration at Dahlgren Chapel on the university’s campus.
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Match Day 2024: By the Numbers
Here’s a few facts about this year’s Match Day at GUSOM.
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The School of Medicine Class that Started Virtually Relishes In-Person Match Day Celebration
Tears of joy and screams of excitement filled the air at Georgetown’s annual Match Day celebration, as graduating medical students learned where their journeys would take them next for residency training in a tradition that plays out at medical schools on the same day across the country.
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GUSOM Population Health Scholar Track Honored for Innovation
The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), a national association dedicated to advancing prevention and public health education, training, and research, has awarded the School of Medicine’s Population Health Scholar Track with its APTR Outstanding Educational Program Award.
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From Struggling Student to Medical Educator, Terao Shares Strategies for Success
As assistant dean for student learning in Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Office of Student Learning and Academic Advising (OSLAA), Michael Terao, MD, MEd, strives to give students the strategies they need to succeed at Georgetown and beyond.
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Undergraduates and Medical Students Learn Cura Personalis Through the Medical Humanities
For the past three years, Georgetown undergraduates and medical students have immersed themselves in the emerging interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, which seeks to expand the hard sciences approach to the study of science and medicine to include social and historical context.
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