All Posts: community outreach

• Medical Students Volunteer at Pride Festival

  Medical students from HOYA Clinic and Hoya Medical Pride Alliance (HMPA) teamed up to offer health screenings at the June 9 Capital Pride Festival in Washington.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, HOYA Clinic, Hoya Medical Pride Alliance, student experience

• 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.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, population health, student achievement, student experience

• 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.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, community-based learning, dermatology, health disparities, student experience, sun safety

• 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

• Gateway Exploration Program Scholars Share Health Disparities Research

  This year, 11 students participated in the Gateway Exploration Scholars program, a six-week internship for DC high school students who are aspiring physicians from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, Gateway Exploration Program, high school programs, pathway programs

• Medical Students Volunteer at DC Pride Festival

  At the Pride Festival on June 11 in Washington, DC, medical students from the HOYA Clinic and Hoya Medical Pride Alliance offered attendees free blood pressure and blood glucose screenings as well as HIV testing.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, HOYA Clinic, Hoya Medical Pride Alliance, service to others, student experience

• Medical Students Make Connections Over Community-Based Learning

  A medical trivia Easter egg hunt, a visit to the simulation lab and a campus tour were among the activities medical students organized as part of a School of Medicine visit for a group of fourth grade students from a local elementary school.

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, community-based learning, health disparities, health equity, service to others, student experience

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

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• GUMC Students Focus on Giving Back This Holiday Season

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, student experience

• 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