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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…

December 15, 2023

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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…

December 7, 2023

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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…

July 20, 2023

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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…

April 30, 2023

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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…

March 31, 2023