All Posts: student experience

• For This Medical Student, Her Cancer Research Is for Her Little Sister

  Ritu Amarnani (M’27), a second-year medical student, spent this summer researching cancer care at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. She turned her career focus toward medicine after her younger sister’s cancer diagnosis and death.

  Category: News Stories Tags: student experience, student research

• Georgetown Faith Leaders Welcome New Medical Students

  Faith leaders from Georgetown’s Office of Campus Ministry greeted medical students at a special luncheon during new student orientation, held to express Georgetown’s commitment to students’ spiritual care.

  Category: News Stories Tags: interreligious event, interreligious understanding, spiritual care, student experience

• Medical Students Gain Confidence with a Dose of Cultural Humility Through Summer Experience

  A monthlong medical mission to the Dominican Republic this summer was a valuable opportunity for two School of Medicine students to experience health care delivery in an under-resourced area of the world.

  Category: News Stories Tags: global health, medical education, population health, student experience

• 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

• 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.

  Category: News Stories Tags: health justice, Health Justice Alliance, Health Justice Scholar Track, student experience

• ‘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