All Posts: community outreach
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Medical Students Volunteer at Pride Festival
Medical students from HOYA Clinic and Hoya Medical Pride Alliance (HMPA) teamed up to offer health screenings at the June 9 Capital Pride Festival in Washington.
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Trimming Heart Disease Risk, One Haircut at a Time
An award-winning policy proposal from Georgetown School of Medicine students explores the role of barbershops in improving heart health in DC.
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Ralph Lauren Center Marks Its First Year at Georgetown
Nearly one year after the opening of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention, Ralph Lauren leaders toured the center and received an update on its accomplishments from center leaders and staff.
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School of Medicine Student Organizes Community Course To Bring Dermatological Education to Underserved Communities
After learning about a dermatology curriculum developed for school-age children by medical students, medical student Umayr Shaikh started making plans to organize a new community-based learning course bringing dermatological education to underserved elementary school students.
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Biomedical Graduate Education Students Make a Difference in the Community
Students who choose the Special Master’s Program in Physiology’s Georgetown Downtown Campus track participate in community service activities throughout the program.
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Medical Students Embrace Cura Personalis in Foot Clinics for the Unhoused
Medical students who volunteer with the HOYA Foot Care Clinic not only provide foot exams and triage for the underserved, unhoused population of Washington DC, they also strive to create life-affirming encounters with patients.
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Gateway Exploration Program Scholars Share Health Disparities Research
With their health disparities research capstone presentations, participants in the 2023 Gateway Exploration Program (GEP) drew attention to topics that concern them, including substance use disorder, childhood asthma and food insecurity, and proposed solutions to problems they’ve seen firsthand. The presentations marked the culmination of the GEP, a six-week internship for DC high school students who are aspiring physicians from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine.
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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.
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Georgetown Lombardi Young Scholars Gain Hands-On Science Experience
A team of eager third graders from Van Ness Elementary in southeast Washington, D.C., recently teamed up with volunteers from Georgetown Lombardi for hands-on experiences with robotics, programming, biology and engineering designed to encourage students to think about careers in science and medicine.
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Nursing and Health Students Give a Day of Service at Food & Friends
Volunteers worked in shifts to help pack medically tailored meals for Food & Friends’ clients in the D.C. region living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes and other chronic illnesses.
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