All Posts: student experience
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School of Nursing AHEC Scholars Gain Critical Clinical Experience
Working in underserved communities through the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Scholars Program is delivering a lasting impact for many nursing students who often decide to seek out these communities when they graduate.
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Health Justice Scholars Share Passion for Future Patients
For Health Justice Week 2024, fourth-year medical students on the Health Justice Scholar longitudinal academic track shared their capstone presentations on topics including barriers to health equity for transgender patients, how COVID-19 affected those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, addressing food insecurity and more.
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Undergraduates and Medical Students Learn Cura Personalis Through the Medical Humanities
For the past three years, Georgetown undergraduates and medical students have immersed themselves in the emerging interdisciplinary field of medical humanities, which seeks to expand the hard sciences approach to the study of science and medicine to include social and historical context.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ambulance services among colleges and universities in the U.S.
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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.
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School of Health Students Practice Community-Led Approach to Health With Alaska Natives
When considering global health challenges, practitioners in the field often say “what’s global is local” and vice versa. This fall, Alaina Anderson (H’24) and Seareen Maaita (H’24), both studying global health, took this theory with them while interning for 15 weeks with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.
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Called To Be a Doctor-Doctor: MD/PhDs at Georgetown Move From Bench to Bedside and Back
A subset of Georgetown students have made the decision to pursue both scientific research and clinical training through the MD/PhD program — allowing them to get the best of both worlds.
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