All Posts: School of Medicine
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Facing Their Greatest Test, Medical School Graduates Prepare to Enter the Fray
(May 17, 2020) — It’s a highly unusual time to be graduating from medical school. Just ask this year’s 187 graduates of Georgetown’s School of Medicine, who are making the transition from student to physician against the backdrop of a global pandemic. For the Class of 2020, the sacrosanct rites of passage that typically form […]
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HOYA Clinic Campaign Aids DC’s Temporary Housing Residents
(May 8, 2020) — The risk posed by COVID-19 may have temporarily closed the physical doors of the Health Outreach for Youth and Adults (HOYA) Clinic, a free, medical student-managed clinic located in the Triumph temporary housing facility in Congress Heights in Southeast Washington, but it has not dampened the resolve of its student volunteers […]
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Georgetown Global Health Experts Apply Past Lessons to COVID-19
(April 21, 2020) — As COVID-19 cases continue to spread around the globe, there is still much to be understood: how long drastic “social distancing” measures will be necessary, whether there will be a resurgence months from now, and to what extent viral mutations might impact clinical outcomes, among many other critical questions. As the […]
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Medical Student Presentations Cap Health Justice Week Events
(April 18, 2020) — Georgetown University School of Medicine students in the Health Justice Scholar (HJS) Track celebrated Health Justice Week 2020 from April 6 to 8 with events — held virtually this year — designed to uphold the program’s mission to empower student physicians to be advocates for health justice. The HJS Track is […]
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Georgetown’s José Merino Becomes Editor-In-Chief of the World’s Leading Clinical Neurology Journal
(April 18, 2020) — José G. Merino, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FAAN, professor of neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, became interested in medical journals as a medical student; he later gained experience in peer-reviewing journals as a fellow. Now, he will merge his longtime interest and extensive experience as he begins a 10-year term […]
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Medical Students Mobilize Swiftly to Organize Donations of Protective Equipment
(March 27, 2020) — Immediately upon learning that their clinical activities would be on hold due to COVID-19, a group of Georgetown School of Medicine students began checking in with one another: “What can we do to help?” The recommendation from the Association of American Medical Colleges that medical schools suspend any activities involving student […]
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A Match Day Like No Other
(March 27, 2020) — Match Day. It is one of the most highly anticipated days in a medical student’s life. For most, it is a day filled with excitement and butterflies; a day shared with classmates, faculty, family and friends; a day when students are awaiting the exact second when they learn where their journey […]
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Hoyas on the Hill Advocate on Behalf of Patients
(March 24, 2020) — Though the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the focus on the Hill, the purposeful groups of Health Justice Scholars from Georgetown University School of Medicine and Georgetown Law who walked the halls of congressional buildings on March 11 — just one day before such visits were canceled — were undeterred in their efforts […]
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Fighting Racial Stigma Through Shared Experiences at ‘Melanin in Medicine’
(February 28, 2020) — In honor of Black History Month, Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) hosted its second-annual Melanin in Medicine event, creating a safe space for medical professionals, students and other participants to have candid, thought-provoking conversations with the goal of fostering healthier interactions among minorities in the health care […]
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New Master’s Program Explores Societal Influences on Health
(February 26, 2020) — Medicine today is said to be “evidence-based” — practiced on the basis of cumulative clinical studies. But for the physicians and researchers involved in launching the newest master’s degree program at Georgetown University, medical evidence isn’t enough. “Evidence needs to encompass the perspectives of other fields, not just medicine,” says Adriane […]
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