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Alternative Spring Break Experience Provokes Reflection, Introspection for NHS Student

(March 29, 2019) — Growing up in Nebraska, Emily Graul (NHS’20) was already familiar with the challenges associated with rural health care accessibility, but leading an…

March 29, 2019

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Creating Leaders in Health Justice Beyond the Hilltop

(March 29, 2019) — As a medical school applicant, Hunter Fraker (M’19) was not only interested in learning about medicine but also how to advocate for his patients through…

March 29, 2019

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Students Honor Anatomical Donors with Murals

(March 29, 2019) — Transformed from a morbid space with photos of sliced cadaver parts, the hallway of the anatomy lab at Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) now…

March 29, 2019

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Going with Your Gut: Exploring the Microbiota’s Role in Colorectal Cancer Among the Young

(March 26, 2019) — When figures released by the American Cancer Society in 2017 showed a rise in colorectal cancer cases and deaths among young people, Benjamin Weinberg, MD,…

March 26, 2019

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New Master’s in Global Infectious Disease Bridges Science and Policy

March 21, 2019

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School of Medicine Match Day 2019: By The Numbers

(March 17, 2019) — Sunshine poured through the windows of the Healey Family Student Center on an unseasonably warm March day as members of the School of Medicine Class of 2019…

March 17, 2019

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NHS Alumni at the School of Medicine Celebrate Match Day

(March 16, 2019) — On Match Day 2019, Nadeen Hussain (NHS’15, M’19) learned that she matched with the internal medicine residency program at Yale-New Haven Hospital. MaryJo…

March 17, 2019

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After Overcoming Match Week Adversity, Georgetown Alumni Thrive as Residents

(March 15, 2019) — After four years of medical school, many medical students look forward to finding out where they will complete the next phases of their education on Match.…

March 15, 2019

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Helping Future Caretakers Take Care of Themselves

(March 15, 2019) — When Simoné Jalon [SIM-oh-nay JAH-lahn], PsyD, discovered that Georgetown University was seeking a psychologist to work at the School of Medicine, she…

March 15, 2019

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Facing a Difficult Diagnosis, Why One Patient Chooses to Confront Cancer at Georgetown Lombardi

(March 7, 2019) — While living in Chattanooga, Tenn., Adam Skipper was one of the primary caregivers for his 69-year-old mother before pancreatic cancer took her life. In…

March 7, 2019