Kristin Hubing

Christine George is quick to admit that she’s a bit of an adrenaline junkie. “It’s horrible when disasters happen,” she says, “but when there’s something you can do about it for those who are suffering, it’s incredibly rewarding.”

Retired physicians work one-one-one with third year medical students for the Observed History and Physical Examination requirement.

It was an unseasonably cold late-October afternoon, with Hurricane Sandy churning up the East Coast. Ominous skies threatened to unleash a downpour at any moment, but that didn’t keep the 13 members of the Challenger team off the baseball diamond at Barcroft Park in Arlington, Va.

Utsha Khatri’s first exposure to medicine was from the perspective of treating the underserved. She believes that multiple factors influence a patient’s prospects for good health — education, stress, access to healthy foods, etc.

It’s a typical Thursday for John Larsen, M.D., chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

School of Medicine and Health Sciences Student Interest Group Pairs Medical Students Eager for Experience with Expectant Mothers for Better Outcomes

“Is this going to be on the final?” Mykia Washington eagerly asked her instructor during a fierce round of math Jeopardy. It’s an unusual question to hear from the mouth of a 14-year-old on a mid-summer morning, the sun already beating down on a sweltering Foggy Bottom.

Marcia Firmani understands the importance of mentorship for budding scientists. During her graduate training at UC Berkeley, Daniel A. Portnoy, Ph.D., a professor of biochemistry, played an influential role in encouraging her dissertation research. “He once told me that there are two kinds of…

Anyone who has taken a course in higher education is familiar with end-of-semester evaluations. They typically come in the form of surveys that employ Likert scales, which score responses along a range that spans from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.” Students are presented with statements…

By his junior year at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1978, Barry A. Wolfman already knew that he wanted to become a hospital administrator. His very deliberate career was a result of what he calls the meshing of his interests in medicine and business. “It was crystal clear,” he says…