Diversity and Inclusion:
Increasingly, diversity is a vital component of the educational mission of the national’s medical schools and physicians need to be able to serve diverse communities of patients. There are also significant health disparities across racial and ethnic lines. The changing demographics of patients make the need to train new physicians with cultural awareness and competencies critical.
ARCHES Program:
The Dean for Medical Education's Inaugural Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) is a six-week program for eight undergraduate students who are rising juniors and rising seniors interested in pursuing medical studies. All students are encouraged to apply, including students who identify as first-generation college students, students who come from backgrounds underrepresented in the health professions, and students who are committed to advancing opportunities for populations who lack equitable access to health care and/or committed to serving the underserved.
This program will engage selected participants in clinical experience, guided research, and immersive service at Georgetown University. Participants will gain exposure to the clinical and research activities at Georgetown University School of Medicine and to the greater DC community on issues of health equity. GUSOM ARCHES aims to strengthen the research and clinical skills of promising undergraduate students and prepare them for successful matriculation into medical school.
Inaugural Innovation Team:
We are looking for up to seven, entrepreneurial student interns (undergrad and grad) for our inaugural Innovations in Diversity and Inclusion Team (IDIT) with Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Georgetown School of Medicine. We are a fast-paced, start-up styled team in higher education looking to create a robust diversity strategy on campus to increase the diversity of students, faculty, and staff at the Georgetown School of Medicine. Our goals are to:
• Develop, support, advance community outreach and pipeline programs within the District of Columbia, middle schools, high schools to begin to scope out talent pipeline partnerships.
• Benchmark diversity strategies across the country and across different sectors (tech, education, business) and adapt them to the school of medicine
• Build a supportive community on campus that connects students, faculty and staff and features our diverse populations
• Work with our renowned GEMS program, a history program for the development and promotion of students traditionally underrepresented in medicine and academically high risk or disadvantaged in their journey to internal medicine and health related cares.
• Launch an exciting social media campaign to build an incredible community on social media spotlighting students and diversity and inclusion work at the School of Medicine.
