All Posts: News Stories

• Medical Students Organize Annual Conference to Celebrate the Black Medical Community

  To mark Black History Month, members of Georgetown’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) organize an annual conference at the School of Medicine for underrepresented medical students, residents, premeds and the general public.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community in diversity, medical education, student events, student mentorship, Student National Medical Association

• The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?

  Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in the School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.

  Category: News Stories Tags: brain, neuroscience

• ‘Find Your Yes’: Five Alumnae in Medicine Share Their Stories and Advice

  Five women who became friends as medical students at Georgetown collaborated on a new book that is a comprehensive, practical guide for aspiring women physicians.

  Category: News Stories Tag: alumni

• ‘We Messed Up’ Organizers Find the Upside of Failure

  Since it launched less than two years ago, the “We Messed Up” Initiative has brought together students and faculty to learn about resiliency and growing from failure.

  Category: News Stories Tags: medical education, resiliency, student experience

• School of Medicine Scholarship Recipient Dedicated to Serving Local Communities and Fighting Global Health Inequities

  For Amanda Wibben, MTS (M’26), the 2023-2024 Lawrence Dean Scholarship winner, cura personalis is about health care providers not only caring for their patients in their entirety, but also confronting their own privilege.

  Category: News Stories Tags: Lawrence Dean Scholarship, scholarships, student achievement, student experience

• Interfaith Blessing Highlights the Generosity of Anatomical Donors

  Before first-year medical students began their highly anticipated first day of anatomy lab, they paused for an interfaith blessing led by Father James Shea, S.J., Rabbi Daniel Schaefer and Imam Yahya Hendi.

  Category: News Stories Tags: anatomical donor, anatomy lab, gross anatomy, medical education, student experience

• Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade

  A family foundation has gifted $1.5 million to Georgetown University to sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training future lawyers, physicians and nurses to collaboratively use the law as a tool to improve health and well-being at the patient, systems, and population levels.

  Category: News Stories Tags: health justice, Health Justice Alliance

• Medical Students Embrace Cura Personalis in Foot Clinics for the Unhoused

  (December 15, 2023) — Medical students who volunteer with the HOYA Foot Care Clinic not only provide foot exams and triage for the underserved, unhoused population of Washington DC, they also strive

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, HOYA Clinic, HOYA Foot Care Clinic, service to others

• Student-Run Ambulance Service Celebrates 40 Years of Caring for Fellow Students

  In 1983, a group of undergraduates started a medical ambulance service for fellow students on foot. Forty years later, the group has grown into one of the largest student-run ambulance services among colleges and universities in the U.S.

  Category: News Stories Tags: cura personalis, emergency medicine, GERMS, service to others, student experience

• Interreligious Thanksgiving Dinner Cultivates Spiritual Connections

  (November 17, 2023) — Against the backdrop of deeply troubling conflicts in the world, medical students from several faith communities gathered for an interreligious Thanksgiving dinner at the medica

  Category: News Stories Tags: community in diversity, interreligious understanding, student experience, student life