All Posts: community outreach
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Medical Students on a Mission to Reverse Opioid Overdoses in DC
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Georgetown Students Provide Practical Nutritional Information to Families in DC Food Deserts
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HOYA Clinic Volunteers at Capital Pride with Casa Ruby
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Georgetown Street Medicine Outreach Group Seeks to Better Understand Health Challenges of DC’s Unhoused People
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COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Clinics Promote Public Health, Interprofessional Education
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HOYA Clinic Reopens to Serve DC Residents
(November 12, 2021) — One of the most coveted real-world experiences for Georgetown medical students is the opportunity to serve others and learn clinical skills through the HOYA (Health Outreach for Youth and Adults) Clinic, the first student-run free clinic in Washington, DC. For more than a decade, the clinic has provided free, nonemergent medical […]
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Family Medicine Professor Vows to ‘Take COVID Down’ One Question at a Time
(November 5, 2021) — Family medicine physician LaTasha Seliby Perkins, MD, feels a strong sense of responsibility to improve the health of people in the D.C. community. “I believe that Georgetown has a responsibility to Black people and underrepresented minorities, and service to this city because of the resources that we have,” said Seliby Perkins, […]
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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. […]
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Virtual Classes Give Medical Students Opportunity to Teach, Learn From HOYA Clinic Community
(May 13, 2021) — For several years, Georgetown medical students have led health and wellness classes for clients at the HOYA Clinic, covering topics including exercise and preventative health. The classes resumed in a virtual setting in October with N Street Village, an organization serving women with low income and those experiencing homelessness. In addition […]
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Georgetown’s Jesse Goodman Leads Vaccine Analysis Team
(May 7, 2021) — If you’ve read news stories this past year about COVID-19 vaccines in The Washington Post or The New York Times, for example, or have heard stories on NPR, the journalists’ reporting may well have been informed by input from a group of vaccine experts led by Georgetown infectious disease specialist Jesse […]
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