All Posts: service to others

• Virtual Classes Give Medical Students Opportunity to Teach, Learn From HOYA Clinic Community

  (May 13, 2021) — For several years, Georgetown medical students have led health and wellness classes for clients at the HOYA Clinic, covering topics including exercise and preventative health. The classes resumed in a virtual setting in October with N Street Village, an organization serving women with low income and those experiencing homelessness. In addition […]

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

• MCGSO Members Virtually Volunteer for BrainSTEM Week

  (April 23, 2021) — Members of the Medical Center Graduate Student Organization (MCGSO) shared their passion for science with students from Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C., during BrainSTEM Week via Zoom April 5-9. Comprising demonstrations, career talks and research discussions, BrainSTEM Week combined two annual MCGSO events: Brain Awareness Week and STEM Night.   As […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: brain, community outreach, neuroscience, service to others

• Georgetown Nursing Helps Promote Public Health Through COVID-19 Efforts

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, public health, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Grad Student Uses Skills Honed at Georgetown to Help DC Fight Coronavirus

  (October 9, 2020) — When the pandemic forced Georgetown University to move to a virtual setting and research labs were temporarily shuttered, Suzie Stephenson (G’17, G’22) drew upon her training in virology to make a difference. “You think, ‘What are you going to do when something bad happens?’” said Stephenson, a PhD candidate in microbiology […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical education, Biomedical Graduate Education, biomedical research, coronavirus, COVID-19, graduate education, service to others

• NHS Global Health Major Named George H.W. Bush Points of Light Awardee

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others, student achievement

• Using Zoom, NHS Undergraduates Teach Health Literacy in Alaska Literacy Program

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• Medical Student Makes a Difference by Donating Convalescent Plasma

  (July 17, 2020) — When Tanvee Singh (M’22) started feeling sick in March, she thought her asthma was acting up. As her symptoms worsened, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Determined to find a silver lining in her experience, Singh donated plasma at the NIH Clinical Center when she […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: convalescent plasma, COVID-19, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, service to others

• 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 […]

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

• NHS Student Creates Virtual Music Initiative for Senior Community Centers

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others

• NHS Junior Contributes to COVID-19 Relief Efforts Through U.S. Navy

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, military medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, service to others