All Posts: student experience

• School of Health’s Global Mental Health and Well-Being Initiative Builds Community with Art

  Students, faculty and staff gathered in St. Mary’s Hall to celebrate “From Ill-Being to Well-Being and the Liminal States In-Between: Art Exhibit,” a student-centered, semester-long multimedia art campaign intended to promote conversations about mental health presented by the School of Health’s new Global Mental Health and Well-Being Initiative.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: mental health, School of Health, student events, student experience, student wellness, well-being

• Record Number of Students Share Research at Annual Undergraduate Research Conference

  A record 94 Georgetown students from diverse majors such as biology, nursing, chemistry, psychology, and the human sciences presented their work at this year’s Undergraduate Research Conference, which took place during a daylong poster session on Wednesday, April 17, in the Healey Family Student Center.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: School of Health, student experience, student research, Undergraduate Research Conference

• Graduate Students Practice Traditional Medicine In Mexico With the Goal of Providing Whole Person Care in the Future

  Over 10 days this March, six Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) students traveled to Mexico to learn about Curanderismo, a traditional healing system of the Americas.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, global health, integrative medicine, Master of Science in Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences Program, student experience

• Trimming Heart Disease Risk, One Haircut at a Time

  An award-winning policy proposal from Georgetown School of Medicine students explores the role of barbershops in improving heart health in DC.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: community outreach, people for others, School of Medicine, service to others, student achievement, student experience

• School of Health Students Journey to Korea to Explore Health Care System Approaches

  A global experience designed to examine the various aspects of health care delivery and systems in comparison to the U.S. system drew 10 Georgetown School of Health graduate students to Seoul, South Korea, in March.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: global health, health care systems, School of Health, student experience

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: AHEC, health disparities, health equity, nurse midwifery, people for others, School of Nursing, service to others, student experience, women's health nurse practitioner program

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Health Justice Scholar Track, School of Medicine, student experience

• 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.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cura personalis, Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justic, medical education, medical humanities, student experience

• ‘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