Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative

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Perspectives

Working with the Medical Humanities Initiative has been one of the highlights during my time as a resident

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…

February 20, 2024

Perspectives

The medical humanities asks me to engage with what it means to be human; it asks me to engage with humanity

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…

November 1, 2023

Perspectives

The medical humanities allows me to explore interests not limited to the traditional medical world

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…

November 1, 2023

Announcements
Media

Ella Castanier Received a Penner Research Award

Ella Castanier (COL’24) received a Penner Family Experiences Award, which provides undergraduate students experiential learning.…

October 6, 2022

Announcements
Scholarship

“A Pilot Study to Understand the Role of Medical Humanities in Medical Education”

Clark Pitcher, Arya Prasad, Daniel Marchalik, Hunter Groninger, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Pottash study the perception of the students enrolled in the Georgetown University…

September 26, 2022

Past events

Lakshmi Krishnan and Vinayak Jain Were Part of the 2022 Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and MWHC Internal Medicine Resident Vinayak Jain presented their work on "Critical Pedagogies in Medical Education" at the 2022 Teaching, Learning &…

May 24, 2022

Scholarship

“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”

This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical…

May 17, 2022

Announcements

Anjali Britto’s “What the Lockdown Gave Me” on Display at the Gelardin Center Exhibit Area

“What the Lockdown Gave Me”, the mixed media project that Anjali Britto (SFS'22) developed as her Medical Humanities 2020-2021 Research Project, under the guidance of Toni…

May 6, 2022

Media

Ella Castanier Awarded a Kalorama Fellowship

Ella Castanier (COL’24) was awarded one of the 2022 Kalorama Summer Research Fellowships, to support her history of medicine project titled, "Checking the Monster Scourge":…

April 21, 2022

Past events

The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative Co-Sponsored the 2022 Health Humanities Conference

The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative was one of the sponsors of the 2022 Health Humanities Conference, which took place on March 25, 26 and 27, 2022, and was co-hosted by…

March 28, 2022