All Posts: community outreach

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, diversity, Gateway Exploration Program, health disparities, health equity, high school programs, pathway programs, School of Medicine

• 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

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, education, STEM

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Health, School of Nursing, service to others

• One Tent Health Student Volunteers Gain Clinical Experience in Community Settings

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, service to others, student experience

• GUMC Students Focus on Giving Back This Holiday Season

  (December 16, 2022) — In the midst of final exams and their own holiday preparations, students at the School of Health, School of Nursing and School of Medicine volunteered to spread happiness and health throughout the Georgetown community and beyond. School of Health Through Georgetown Individuals Vocal and Energetic for Service (GIVES), undergraduate students organize […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, student experience

• Medical Students Train Congressional Staffers on Opioid Overdose Reversal

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, School of Medicine, student experience

• Medical Students on a Mission to Reverse Opioid Overdoses in DC

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, naloxone, opioid epidemic, School of Medicine, service to others

• Georgetown Students Provide Practical Nutritional Information to Families in DC Food Deserts

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, nutrition and health, nutrition education, School of Health, School of Medicine, service to others

• HOYA Clinic Volunteers at Capital Pride with Casa Ruby

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, inclusion, School of Medicine, service to others, student experience