All Posts:Gateway Exploration Program

• For First-Generation Students, Path to Medical School Runs Through Georgetown

  Two School of Medicine summer pathways programs work to inspire students from diverse backgrounds, many of them future first-generation medical students, to explore careers in health care.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: ARCHES Program, first-generation students, Gateway Exploration Program, GEP Program, pathway programs

• 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

• High School GEP Scholars Devote Summer to Exploring Health Disparities

  Participants in this year’s Gateway Exploration Program, an opportunity for local high school students to explore the medical profession, delivered their capstone health disparities presentations.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Gateway Exploration Program, School of Medicine