All Posts: community outreach
18 Articles
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Medical Students Volunteer at DC Pride Festival
At the Pride Festival on June 11 in Washington, DC, medical students from the HOYA Clinic and Hoya Medical Pride Alliance offered attendees free blood pressure and blood glucose…
June 17, 2023
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Medical Students Make Connections Over Community-Based Learning
A medical trivia Easter egg hunt, a visit to the simulation lab and a campus tour were among the activities medical students organized as part of a School of Medicine visit for a…
April 30, 2023
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One Tent Health Student Volunteers Gain Clinical Experience in Community Settings
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January 13, 2023
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Medical Students Train Congressional Staffers on Opioid Overdose Reversal
(October 1, 2022) — Medical students from the student-run organization Hoya DOPE (Drug Overdose Prevention & Education) led a bystander training for congressional staffers…
October 1, 2022
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Medical Students on a Mission to Reverse Opioid Overdoses in DC
(September 9, 2022) — In 2020, the DC Department of Health reported 411 overdose deaths from opioids, nearly twice as many as in 2018. As the number of deaths attributed to…
September 9, 2022
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Georgetown Students Provide Practical Nutritional Information to Families in DC Food Deserts
(September 2, 2022) — In an area of Washington, DC, where over 85% of residents live in a food desert, a group of volunteer undergraduates, postdocs and medical students…
September 2, 2022
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HOYA Clinic Volunteers at Capital Pride with Casa Ruby
(June 25, 2022) — When Christian X. Lava, MS (M’25), started serving as operations coordinator at the HOYA Clinic, one of his goals was to aid and advocate for the LGBTQ+…
June 25, 2022