All Posts: School of Medicine

• From Struggling Student to Medical Educator, Terao Shares Strategies for Success

  A lot of medical students struggle with feelings of inadequacy and failure when trying to master everything thrown at them in their courses, said Michael Terao, MD, MEd. In fact, he almost gave up himself.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, School of Medicine

• Medical Students Organize Annual Conference to Celebrate the Black Medical Community

  To mark Black History Month, members of Georgetown’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) organize an annual conference at the School of Medicine for underrepresented medical students, residents, premeds and the general public.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: diversity, medical education, School of Medicine, SNMA, student events, student mentoring

• A Partnership for Good

  A conversation with nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady (N’74, G’93) and her husband, new faculty member Anthony Fauci

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, bioethics, COVID-19, School of Medicine, School of Nursing

• ‘Find Your Yes’: Five Alumnae in Medicine Share Their Stories and Advice

  Meet five alumnae who developed a friendship at the School of Medicine and eventually wrote a book together.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, medical education, School of Medicine

• ‘We Messed Up’ Organizers Find the Upside of Failure

  Since it launched less than two years ago, the “We Messed Up” Initiative has brought together students and faculty to learn about resiliency and growing from failure.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, resiliency, School of Medicine, student experience

• School of Medicine Scholarship Recipient Dedicated to Serving Local Communities and Fighting Global Health Inequities

  For Amanda Wibben, MTS (M’26), the 2023-2024 Lawrence Dean Scholarship winner, cura personalis is about health care providers not only caring for their patients in their entirety, but also confronting their own privilege.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: scholarship, School of Medicine, student achievement, student experience

• Interfaith Blessing Highlights the Generosity of Anatomical Donors

  Before first-year medical students began their highly anticipated first day of anatomy lab, they paused for an interfaith blessing led by Father James Shea, S.J., Rabbi Daniel Schaefer and Imam Yahya Hendi.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: anatomical donor program, anatomy lab, medical education, School of Medicine, student experience

• Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade

  A new gift of $1.5 million to Georgetown University will sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training future physicians, lawyers and nurses to collaboratively use the law as a tool to improve health and well-being at the patient, systems, and population levels.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: health justice, Health Justice Alliance, medical-legal partnership, School of Medicine, School of Nursing

• Medical Students Embrace Cura Personalis in Foot Clinics for the Unhoused

  Medical students who volunteer with the HOYA Foot Care Clinic not only provide foot exams and triage for the underserved, unhoused population of Washington DC, they also strive to create life-affirming encounters with patients.

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

• Interreligious Thanksgiving Dinner Cultivates Spiritual Connections

  Against the backdrop of deeply troubling conflicts in the world, medical students from several faith communities gathered for an interreligious Thanksgiving dinner at the medical center to celebrate their commonalities and strengthen their cultural competency as future physicians.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: interreligious understanding, School of Medicine, student experience