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For David Acosta, MD, chief diversity and inclusion officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the examples kept piling up: a medical student whose patient referred to her as “the colored girl;” a Latino professor, celebrating his PhD at an upscale restaurant, who was twice…

Rami Algahtani, MD, PGY-IV, chief neurology resident at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), stood in front of a room full of his peers and mentors at the 10th Annual International Medicine Program (IMP) Dinner on October 6, 2017, to tell them…

Interprofessional education, or IPE, has quickly risen to the top of the alphabet soup of medical acronyms. The idea is that as health care philosophy shifts to a patient-centered, team-based approach, effective communication between providers —physicians and specialists to nurses and…

In an effort to give students at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) the ability to enrich their medical education overseas without adding to the debt they accrue during their years in school, the GW International Medicine Programs (IMP) provides…

Around 4,100 employees, faculty, staff, and students from the George Washington University (GW) clinical partners – the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), GW Hospital, and the GW Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) – streamed through food lines for burgers and hot dogs and posed with…

It’s called “the last summer,” the gap between the first and second years of medical school when students at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences have several weeks of freedom from classes and rotations. Some take the opportunity for R and R; others travel on…

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) welcomed the newest class of physical therapy (PT) students in mid-August, immersing them in orientation before the first day of classes. The 46 budding PTs, whose first days on campus can be viewed here, will…

When Cheryl Silverbrook, MD ’13, RESD ’17, BS ’09, heard that her residency director, Jennifer Keller, MD, RESD '07, MPH ’07, was moving to a new position — director of the Division of Education  within the George Washington University (GW) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology — she…

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Physical Therapy (PT) program received a 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) at the organization’s spring 2017 meeting, a triumph that…

In August 2013, Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, MD ’85, MSPH, senior associate dean for clinical public health and professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), returned to his alma mater for a seminal event for medical students: the White Coat ceremony. As keynote…