Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
47 Articles
- Announcements
Ask a Professor: Civil Discourse — Q&A with Dr. Marissa Fond
In Georgetown’s Ask a Professor series, applied sociolinguist and College of Arts & Sciences assistant teaching professor Dr. Marissa Fond shares practical ways to…
September 12, 2025
- Perspectives
Why I Chose Medical Humanities
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…
September 11, 2025
- Announcements
On-Call: A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Thursday, Nov 6, 2025 | 5:00pm – 6:30pm EST | Gaston Hall Join the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative on 6 November 2025 at 5:00 pm in Gaston Hall for a…
September 10, 2025
- 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