All Posts:service to others

• 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

• Student-Run Ambulance Service Celebrates 40 Years of Caring for Fellow Students

  In 1983, a group of undergraduates started a medical ambulance service for fellow students on foot. Forty years later, the group has grown into one of the largest student-run ambulance services among colleges and universities in the U.S.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, emergency medicine, GERMS, service to others, student experience

• School of Health Students Finding Sustainable Health Solutions in Rural India

  Through their student-run organization, Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement), Georgetown undergraduate students including those from the School of Health are partnering with local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to address population health problems such as anemia and malnutrition through education and the use of sustainable health products.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, population health, service to others, student experience

• Medical Students Make Connections Over Community-Based Learning

  Young people from a DC primary school came to campus for a daylong experience with School of Medicine students in the Community Based Learning program. The April 14 visit came at the end of the community-based learning (CBL) course, a class that gets first-year medical students out of the classroom and into one of 24 community sites.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, community-based learning, health disparities, health equity, School of Medicine, service to others, student experience

• Nursing and Health Students Give a Day of Service at Food & Friends

  Volunteers worked in shifts to help pack medically tailored meals for Food & Friends’ clients in the D.C. region living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes and other chronic illnesses.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, community outreach, School of Health, service to others

• One Tent Health Student Volunteers Gain Clinical Experience in Community Settings

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, service to others, student experience

• Georgetown Students Help Recently Arrived Refugees Navigate the U.S. Health Care System

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: refugee health, School of Medicine, service to others, student experience

• Nursing, Medical Students Administer Flu Shots

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Berkley School of Nursing, School of Medicine, service to others, student experience

• Latino Medical Students Strive to Increase Health Access and Build a Sense of Community

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: latine health, population health, racial equity, service to others, 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