The application deadline for the 2025-2026 GEMS Class closed on April 15, 2025 @ 9:00 pm EST
The Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies (GEMS) Program is designed to benefit those who have experienced and/or overcome significant challenges or adversity. This one-year, post-baccalaureate, non-degree educational experience will equip students with learning strategies and advanced academic skills for success in medical education.
GEMS students are “learning how to learn” through rigorous academic skills enrichment coupled with unique, one-on-one, customized advising.
A GEMS student will experience a rigorous curriculum comparable to the experience of first-year medical students. Our educational intervention expands students’ medical science knowledge and enriches critical thinking and test-taking skills.
Our method of advising addresses strengths and areas of improvement unique to the individual student and provides strategies that are customized to the individual student’s learning preference for success.
From 1977 to 2024, graduates of the GEMS Program have matriculated in Georgetown University School of Medicine, as well as other schools of medicine, to attain the degree of Doctorate of Allopathic Medicine.
GEMS physician graduates make significant contributions to meeting the health care needs of the nation’s most vulnerable and underserved populations. They are trailblazers in all areas of clinical specialty, academia and research throughout the world.
