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Physicians Using Social Media Need More Oversight
New research, conducted by Katherine Chretien, M.D., F.A.C.P., associate professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, reveals that while social media has the potential to have a positive social impact, there is need for greater accountability and guidelines, as some…
AMA Foundation Honors SMHS Student as an Outstanding Leader in Medicine
Rahul Vanjani, a student at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named a recipient of the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s 2011 Leadership Award. This award provides medical students, residents/fellows and early career physicians from…
GW Researchers Reveal First Autism Candidate Gene that Demonstrates Sensitivity to Sex Hormones
George Washington University researcher Dr. Valerie Hu, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, have found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression of an important gene in neuronal cell culture through a mechanism…
Lessons Learned in 2010 Haiti Earthquake May Help New Zealand Response
More formal study is needed of rescue efforts by international response teams after earthquakes in order to improve search and recovery efforts, according to a report by Anthony Macintyre, M.D., professor of Emergency Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The report was published…
GWish Receives Grant to Provide Spiritual Care Training to VAMC Health Care Providers
The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) has received a one year, $300,000 contract from the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DCVAMC) to provide five training modules in spiritual care to interdisciplinary health care providers.
New Drug Denosumab Better than Current Gold Standard of Zoledronic Acid for Preventing Bone Events in Med with Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer; GW’s Dr. Aragon-Ching Provides Comment in Lancet
Jeanny Aragon-Ching, M.D. assistant professor of Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says that the new drug denosumab is a welcome addition to the options available for treatment of metastatic prostate cancer.
2022 Archive
An archive of all eNewsletters from 2022.
International MD Program
GW can only accept U.S. citizens, Canadian citizens, and U.S. permanent residents into the regular four-year MD program, so we have developed the International MD program, specifically designed to prepare international students for medical practice and leadership in their home countries.
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