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Welcome to GUMC

GUMC is an internationally recognized academic medical center whose missions of research, teaching and patient care are carried out with a strong emphasis on community outreach and the Jesuit principle of cura personalis — care of the whole person.

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Research

More than 400 GUMC scientists and physicians are conducting cutting-edge biomedical research, and undertaking more than 300 clinical trials on-site.

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Education

GUMC educates physicians, scientists, and health care professionals committed to the care of others and the health needs of society.

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Patient Care

Clinical care at Georgetown University Hospital is provided through its clinical partner, MedStar Health, the largest non-profit healthcare system in the mid-Atlantic region.

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Historic Fundraising Campaign Reaches $1 Billion Milestone

Georgetown reaches the $1 billion mark in its $1.5 billion, 10-year fundraising campaign.

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A Medical Career Providing for Others

On Sunday, Sir Michael Rawlins will have the attention of 197 graduating physicians at the School of Medicine commencement. Each will expect to hear great insights about their future, but Rawlins says his best advice is to be mindful of the mission they’ve learned at Georgetown — that devotion to the needs of others provides the right model for health care in America.

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A New Mission: Educating the Educators

With the help a new center at Georgetown University Medical Center devoted to fostering excellence in teaching, its director, Dr. Aviad Haramati, wants to help educators who cultivate the art of learning “become scholars and leaders of health professions education."

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Survey Tool Gauges Patient Treatment Preferences for Late-stage Cancer

Investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center seek to shed more light on patients' perceptions of the risks and benefits of treatment options for advanced cancers. They are gathering data they hope will help shape how patients and physicians make decisions about continuing drug therapies once the cancer has progressed to a late stage.

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