All Posts: 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

• 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

• 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

  Category: News Stories Tags: community in diversity, interreligious understanding, student experience, student life

• Called To Be a Doctor-Doctor: MD/PhDs at Georgetown Move From Bench to Bedside and Back

  A subset of Georgetown students have made the decision to pursue both scientific research and clinical training through the MD/PhD program — allowing them to get the best of both worlds.

  Category: News Stories Tags: MD/PhD Program, medical education, student experience

• 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

• 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

• School of Medicine Grad Prepares for Career in Transplant Medicine

  Since childhood, Malcolm Meredith (M’23) knew he wanted to be a surgeon. His experiences at the School of Medicine prompted him to focus on transplant medicine, a career he’ll pursue as a surgical resident at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital after graduation.

  Category: News Stories Tags: commencement 2023, medical education, student experience, transplant surgery

• 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

• School of Medicine Students Build Community By Reflecting on What Drove Them to Pursue Medicine

  Forty first-year medical students and Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies Program (GEMS) students gathered virtually April 13 for the seventh-annual “I, Too, Am Georgetown Medicine” (ITAGMed) event to remind themselves why they pursued careers in medicine and to reflect on how to remain their authentic selves in stressful environments.

  Category: News Stories Tags: medical education, student events, student experience