All Posts: cura personalis

• 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.

  Category: News Stories Tags: cura personalis, medical education, medical humanities

• 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

• Gold Humanism Inductees Embody Cura Personalis by Embracing Humanism in Health Care

  The Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) added more than 30 School of Medicine students to its rolls at its annual fall induction ceremony. The event, held October 25 in Harvey Amphitheater, recognizes medical students in the fourth year who excel in providing compassionate care and embody cura personalis, care of the whole person.

  Category: News Stories Tags: cura personalis, Gold Humanism Honor Society, medical education

• Medical Students Form Organization to Increase the Number of Spanish-Speaking Physicians

  With a dual mission to train medical students to effectively communicate and educate the School of Medicine community about the specific health needs of the population, a group of third- and fourth-year medical students are looking to recruit to the next cohort of leaders for the Medical Spanish Initiative.

  Category: News Stories Tags: cultural competence, cura personalis, medical education, Medical Spanish Initiative, student experience

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

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

• Georgetown Students Provide Practical Nutritional Information to Families in DC Food Deserts

  (September 2, 2022) — In an area of Washington, DC, where over 85% of residents live in a food desert, a group of volunteer undergraduates, postdocs and medical students provide nutrition education to families in order to combat poor diets, which can exacerbate some health conditions. “Nutrition is so important to daily life,” said Elizabeth […]

  Category: News Stories Tags: community outreach, cura personalis, medical education, nutrition education, service to others

• Ninth-Annual HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp

  (August 5, 2022) — Laughter and cheer could be heard all around Anacostia Park as a host of first- and second-year medical students poured their energy and excitement into the children attending the ninth annual HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp July 30-31. The summer sports camp focused on fun, creativity, joy, education and support, letting campers […]

  Category: News Stories Tags: cura personalis, HOYA Clinic, HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp, service to others