CuraMD: Intellectual Wellness
CuraMD: Well-being Domains & Resources
The process of attaining intellectual wellness requires you to expand your knowledge and engage in forward, independent thinking. This will involve pursuing creative, mentally stimulating activities. Activities should enhance individual skills and allow you to share your knowledge and experience with others. Intellectual wellness is rooted in discovering opportunities for growth, developing problem solving skills, and overcoming barriers and challenges. It can be advanced through academics, cultural and community involvement, and exploring personal interests. The desire to acquire information and improve skills in pursuit of lifelong learning contributes to your intellectual wellness.
School of Medicine Intellectual Wellness Resources
Office of Student Learning & Academic Counseling (OSLAC)
OSLAC at the School of Medicine is available to all medical students at any time via self-referral. Learning specialists in this office can assist with a wide range of learning & test-taking strategy support, in addition to helping you understand what learning resources most fit with your time and strategies.
Peer-to-Peer Tutoring
The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Tutoring Program provides an additional level of academic support to medical students, while providing an opportunity for upper-level classmate tutors to reinforce their knowledge and critical thinking skills. All Georgetown medical students receive up to two hours/week of tutoring, covered by the school. Additional hours must be approved by the Vice Dean for Student Affairs.
Learning & Testing Accommodations
The Office of Student Affairs is responsible for assisting students with their test-taking and/or learning accommodations, who have received approved documentation from the Academic Resource Center. Learning specialists in the Office of Student Learning & Academic Counseling can also work with students to identify strategies and resources that take into consideration any needs for accommodation.
Dahlgren Memorial Library
Dahlgren Memorial Library (DML), is the graduate health & life sciences research library at Georgetown University Medical Center. Among its many core services, DML provides the Eisenberg Collection. This collection includes literature, philosophy, history and other works that support the intellectual and personal growth of current and future physicians and scientists. Books chosen by members of the GUMC community through the READ program are added to the Eisenberg Collection, making it an enduring resource for professional and personal enrichment.
Longitudinal Academic Tracks
The Longitudinal Academic Tracks available at the School of Medicine allow students to explore various areas of interest in conjunction with the four-year medical school curriculum. All tracks are faculty-run, scholarly experiences for medical students interested in developing attitudes and skills for self-directed, lifelong learning and career development.
Office of Student Research
The Office of Student Research at the School of Medicine oversees the school’s Independent Scholarly Project (ISP) requirement, and can connect students to varying research opportunities offered within the school and beyond.
Office of Medical Education
The Office of Medical Education at the School of Medicine can assist with connecting you to the appropriate learning resources and faculty, in parallel to your Course and Module Directors. OME also coordinates additional learning opportunities, such as longitudinal tracks, deep dives, and exam reviews.
Office of International Programs
The Office of International Program at the School of Medicine enables Georgetown medical students to live the Jesuit ideals of academic excellence and service to others. This is accomplished through the establishment and maintenance of international elective programs aimed at providing students with the opportunity to serve underdeveloped communities around the globe.
