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The study by Georgetown Medical Center and MedStar National Rehabilitation Network researchers found some benefit for intensive rehabilitation at less than 30 days, but no significant benefit after six months.

The findings, published in Nature Human Behavior, show that key brain functions that underlie critical aspects of cognition like memory, decision making and self-control can actually improve in older individuals.

Members of the School of Medicine’s Class of 2025 and their loved ones gathered for the time-honored White Coat Ceremony – their first step in the journey to becoming physicians.

Part of preclinical education, first-year medical students work with community sites in the Washington, DC, area serving vulnerable populations, including persons with disabilities, older adults and persons in supportive housing.

Law and medical students are teaming up to help sick and vulnerable clients take on issues like unsafe housing, food insecurity, unmet educational needs and compassionate release from prison.

Dr. Jesse Goodman, a former FDA chief scientist, leads a group of vaccine experts who analyze the pandemic’s evolving and complex science for media, health care providers and elected officials.

Sponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, the undergraduate minor strives to re-center health and healing in a broader social, cultural and historical context.

A board-certified psychiatrist and nationally recognized expert in enhancing the learning environment for medical students, Jones joins Georgetown as dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry.

Georgetown medical and nursing students, supported by dozens of other undergraduate, faculty and staff volunteers, vaccinate 2,500 people in Washington, DC's Ward 8.

With the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, Georgetown’s board of directors reviewed measures that will strengthen the university’s competitiveness, maintain its financial stability and continue its commitment…