Archive: Student perspectives

• The medical humanities transformed my perspective on medicine

  The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.

  Category: Student perspectives Tags: Angelette Pham, Medical Humanities Initiative, Students

• The medical humanities shape us, inform how we practice medicine and how we approach our patients

  The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.

  Category: Student perspectives Tags: Medical Humanities Initiative, Schuyler Gaillard, Students

• The medical humanities tethers me to the reasons why I chose medicine as a career

  The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.

  Category: Student perspectives Tags: Medical Humanities Initiative, Siva Rajamarthandan, Students

• Intro to Medical Humanities made me feel inspired and reinvigorated

  The medical humanities program has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.

  Category: Student perspectives Tags: Jacob DeAnnuntis, Medical Humanities Initiative, Students

• The Medical Humanities Initiative has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown

  The Medical Humanities Initiative has been the highlight of my academic experience at Georgetown thus far. . . . Studying medical humanities has become imperative to me since living through the covid-19 pandemic has proven to me how important it is to bring a social, cultural, and historical approach to medicine and public health.

  Category: Student perspectives Tags: Ella Castanier, Medical Humanities Initiative, Students

• The medical humanities reveal not only that medicine and the humanities go hand in hand, but that they are actually indispensable to one another

  I wish I had found this field sooner. For the longest time, I felt pressured to choose between my gravitation towards history, literature, and philosophy and my curiosity about infection, disease, and the hard sciences. The medical humanities reveal not only that these interests go hand in hand, but that they are actually indispensable to one another.

  Category: Student perspectives Tags: Kayla Zamanian, Medical Humanities Initiative, Students