All Posts: community outreach

• 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

• Georgetown Street Medicine Outreach Group Seeks to Better Understand Health Challenges of DC’s Unhoused People

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, homelessness, School of Medicine, service to others

• COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Clinics Promote Public Health, Interprofessional Education

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, COVID-19 vaccine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, vaccination

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, HOYA Clinic, School of Medicine, service to others

• 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, […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, racial disparities, School of Medicine, service to others