All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Pre-Orientation Program Introduces Incoming Students to Pursuing Health Care with a Social Justice Focus

  (August 19, 2022) — CURA, the only pre-orientation program at Georgetown focused on health, immerses incoming students in the Jesuit values of community and service and sets out to imbue students with the knowledge that a person cannot be healthy without addressing underlying social determinants. “CURA welcomes students to Georgetown and builds a sense of […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: CURA, School of Health, School of Nursing, social justice, student experience, student pre-orientation

• RJCC Members Launch Ambitious Agenda to Engage GUMC Community

  (August 12, 2022) — Since the summer of 2020, the Racial Justice Committee for Change (RJCC) has served as a vehicle for students, faculty and staff dedicated to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at GUMC. At their August 8 kickoff meeting for the academic year, RJCC members discussed how to tackle the work ahead and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, racial disparities, racial equity, Racial Justice Committee for Change, RJCC

• Incoming Medical Students Begin Education with Anti-Racist Curriculum

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, racial equity, racial justice, RJCC, School of Medicine

• Clinical Nurse Leader Program White Coat Speaker Encourages Future Nurse Leaders to Use Their ‘Superpower’ for Society’s Good

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: nursing, nursing education, School of Nursing, student achievement

• Ignatian Insights on Difficult Conversations

  by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD (August 8, 2022) — Having difficult conversations can be daunting, and there is plenty in our current world that serves as a source for such conversations. Is there anything in our Ignatian heritage that can help us here at Georgetown to communicate in a way that is respectful, encourages […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Catholic values, difficult conversations, Jesuit values, St. Ignatius

• At the White Coat Ceremony, Medical Students Urged to Prioritize Their Patients

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, School of Medicine, White Coat Ceremony

• Ninth-Annual HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: HOYA Clinic, HoyaMed Summer Sports Camp, School of Medicine, service to others

• Medical Students’ Summer Mentoring Program Aims to Increase Underrepresented Students in Medicine

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: inclusion, medical education, racial equity, School of Medicine, service to others

• Studying Strategies to Achieve Men’s Health Equity

  (July 30, 2022) — As founder and director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, Derek Griffith, PhD, strives to solve a mystery: Why do men, on average, live shorter lives than women, and what can be done to reduce that disparity? “When you look at sex differences and gender differences in the incidence and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Men's Health Equity, health disparities, health equity, men's health, racial disparities, research

• HOYA Summer Medical Academy Inspires School of Health First Year Student

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: high school programs, School of Health, student experience