All Posts: student experience
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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