All Posts: community-based learning

• Medical Students Make Connections Over Community-Based Learning

  Young people from a DC primary school came to campus for a daylong experience with School of Medicine students in the Community Based Learning program. The April 14 visit came at the end of the community-based learning (CBL) course, a class that gets first-year medical students out of the classroom and into one of 24 community sites.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, community-based learning, health disparities, health equity, School of Medicine, service to others, student experience

• How Medical Students Continued Community-Based Learning During the Pandemic

  (July 23, 2021) — As the organizers of community-based learning (CBL) for Georgetown medical students, Kim Bullock, MD, and Donna Cameron, PhD, MPH, have built relationships with the leaders of more than 20 community sites in the Washington, D.C., area that serve vulnerable populations, including persons with disabilities, older adults and persons in supportive housing. […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, community-based learning, medical education, School of Medicine, service to others