All Posts: student experience

• Balancing Studies and Motherhood: Student Mothers Share Their Stories

  (May 7, 2022) — Students pursuing careers in health and medicine have a lot to juggle. For these students who became mothers during their studies at Georgetown, the experience was challenging and rewarding, thanks in part to supportive faculty, staff, classmates and family members. “‘The baby will make space for itself and everything else will […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, Mother's Day, School of Medicine, School of Nursing & Health Studies, student experience

• NHS Students Volunteer at Community-Based Organization on Day of Service

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

• SNMA Connects, Informs and Empowers Underrepresented Students

  (February 19, 2022) — In celebration of Black History Month, medical students in Georgetown’s chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) planned “Melanin in Medicine: Liberation Through Black Identity,” a series of events including virtual study halls, a documentary film screening and Q&A panel discussions on issues impacting Black clinicians. The annual programming is […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Black History Month, School of Medicine, SNMA, student experience, student support

• How to End a Pandemic? Georgetown Course Encourages Students to See Themselves in the Answer

  (January 13, 2022) — When designing her innovative new course, How to End a Pandemic, Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, sought to push back against a common misconception regarding pandemic response.  “There’s this narrative that there are a handful of heroes or heroines in the story of this pandemic — I want to challenge that,” said […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, COVID-19, global health, pandemic preparedness, student experience