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To give students at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences the ability to enrich their medical education overseas without adding to the debt they accrue during school, the GW International Medicine Programs provides myriad scholarship opportunities.

Interprofessional education has quickly risen to the top of the alphabet soup of medical acronyms, and at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, students, including those with the Office of International Medicine Programs, are taking advantage of enrichment opportunities.

Funding is vital to biomedical research, but finding funding opportunities and applying for them often feels more daunting than the science itself, especially for new investigators. Now, a new offering from SMHS is making that process easier than ever.

The Office of International Medicine Programs welcomed participants, faculty, and staff to the annual event, which included recognition of outstanding faculty and the accomplishments of the program.

Sharad Goyal, MD, professor of radiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and chief of the Division of Radiation Oncology at GW Hospital, on receiving the 2017 Health Policy Fellowship from the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

At the Ninth Annual Allan B. Weingold, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology Lecture, Toni Huebscher Golen, MD, RESD ’95, discussed quality improvements and culture changes to reduce the Cesarean delivery rate.

David Acosta, MD, chief diversity and inclusion officer at the AAMC, discussed racial barriers in academic medicine in a special Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, co-sponsored by the SMHS Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

Paul Kaplowitz, MD, professor of pediatrics, spoke to Medscape for an article about the risks of overtesting children for endocrine disorders.

Mary Alvord, PhD, adjunct associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, spoke to Reader's Digest about how the body responds to the common cold.