All Posts: pathway programs

• He Almost Dropped Out of College. Now, This Medical Student Advocates for Health Equity and Mental Health

  While the path to medical school is never guaranteed, for Dylan Hughes (M’28), getting to this point would have been unthinkable before.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: ARCHES Program, pathway programs, School of Medicine, student experience

• Competitive Cancer Research Internship Program Offers Rewarding Experiences for Undergraduates

  This year, 10 rising sophomores, juniors and seniors from colleges and universities across the country participated in the 10-week full-time Diversity in Cancer Research Undergraduate Internship Program, which affords students the opportunity to get a broad view of what cancer research is.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown Lombardi, pathway programs, research, student mentoring

• 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