GEMS Post-Baccalaureate Program

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Welcome to the Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies Program Website. The Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies Program is abbreviated as GEMS in reference to the program and its participants. The GEMS Program is a one year, non-degree, post-baccalaureate program designed to equip under-represented and disadvantaged students for success in medical education. Pictured are four GEMS students, representative of the demographic we serve.
GEMS Educational Methodologies - GEMS students are “learning how to learn” through rigorous academic skills enrichment coupled with unique, 1:1, customized advising. For academic skills enrichment, a GEMS student will experience a rigorous curriculum comparable to the experience of first year medical students. Our educational intervention expands students' medical science knowledge and enriches critical thinking and test taking skills. Our method of unique 1:1, customized advising addresses strengths and areas of improvement unique to the individual student, and provides strategies that are customized to the individual student’s learning preference for success. To the right, there is a graph illustrating the strategies employed. These strategies include higher order thinking, understanding learning behavior, executing learning strategies, instilling student accountability, and providing mentorship and feedback.
As a result of the GEMS Program experience, students will demonstrate enhanced confidence in mastery of medical science knowledge and critical thinking skills for clinical contexts, display an increased understanding of learning behaviors and strategies for success in medical education, and employ reflection and adaptive skills for lifelong learning.
GEMS physician graduates make significant contributions to meeting the needs of the nation’s minority and under-served populations, and are trailblazers in all areas of clinical specialty, academia, and research throughout the world. Above are five images of health care practitioners in action - instructing, supporting, motivating, and collaborating.
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