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Ingredients for Patient Safety: Teamwork and Communication
Third year medical students and newly-minted nurses from MedStar Georgetown collaborated during a day-long event devoted to patient.…
August 29, 2016
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Celebrating a “landmark” gene editing technique
More than two decades ago, Todd Waldman published a study on gene editing in Cancer Research. It has been selected as a "landmark study" and will be republished in the journal's…
August 16, 2016
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Advice to medical students: Fill your heads while opening your hearts
By the end of the first semester of medical school, many students feel overwhelmed. This mind body medicine elective offers tangible skills to help students care for.…
August 11, 2016
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Class of 2020 Begins Its Journey In Medicine
(August 8, 2016) — They come from 31 states and nine countries including Canada, Korea, China, Ethiopia, Israel, Japan, Jamaica and Zimbabwe. Some come from the U.S. military.…
August 8, 2016
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A Community Staple, Student-Run Camp Enjoys Successful Fourth Year
The HoyaMed Summer Sports campers enjoyed fun games like red light, green light and freeze tag, participated in a competitive field day and rubbed elbows with DC.…
July 29, 2016
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Inspired by the Women She Has Studied for Decades
Mary Young, MD, who is newly retired, reflects upon the experiences that brought her to medical school and how they shaped the physician-researcher she came to.…
July 27, 2016
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Are African-Americans needlessly excluded from taking a new breast cancer therapy?
Filipa Lynce, MD, is concerned that her fellow oncologists may not be giving some African American patients with a common type of advanced breast cancer a new drug that can…
July 26, 2016
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Kenneth Dretchen Retires
Dr. Dretchen officially retired from GUMC and the mission that he has been devoted to — although he isn’t.…
June 28, 2016
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Research on Preventing Student Burnout Presented at CENTILE Colloquium
Creating a "life vision" could promote resilience among medical.…
June 24, 2016
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Georgetown Medical Student Selected by American Society of Hematology for Minority Medical Student Award Program
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has selected Georgetown School of Medicine student Serina Lewis to take part in the 2016 Minority Medical Student Award.…
June 24, 2016