Program Spotlight: Georgetown School of Medicine Summer Innovation Associate Program

Looking for a hands-on, meaningful internship this summer working on policy, strategy, and cultivating relationships between K-12 and higher ed in the medical field? Passionate about education, inclusion, access, equity, and retention in STEM? Want to explore the medical campus and network with staff and faculty in medicine?

Apply to the Georgetown School of Medicine Summer Innovation Associate Program!

Increasingly, diversity is a vital component of the educational mission of the nation's medical schools as physicians need to be able to serve diverse communities of patients. There are also significant health disparities across racial and ethnic lines that must be addressed. The changing demographics of patients make the need to train new physicians with cultural awareness and competencies critical.

To address this challenge, the Georgetown SOM is looking for up to ten entrepreneurial students (undergrad and grad) for our innovations in Diversity and Inclusion Team (IDIT) with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Georgetown School of Medicine. They are a fast-paced, start-up styled team in higher education looking to create a robust diversity strategy on campus to increase the diversity of students, faculty, staff, and curriculum at the Georgetown School of Medicine. Their goals are to:

• Develop, support, and advance community outreach and pipeline programs within the District of Columbia, middle schools and high schools to begin to scope out talent pipeline partnerships.
• Benchmark diversity strategies across the country and across different sectors (tech, education, business) and adapt them to the School of Medicine.
• Build a supportive community on campus that connects students, faculty, and staff and features our diverse populations.
• Work with their renowned GEMS program, a history program for the development and promotion of students traditionally underrepresented in medicine and academically high risk or disadvantaged in their journey to internal medicine and health related careers.
• Launching an exciting social media campaign to build an incredible community on social media, spotlighting students and diversity and inclusion work at the School of Medicine.

This is a paid program, with selected summer associates working approximately 40 hours per week at a pay rate of $14.00/hr for the month of June, and $15.00/hr for July through August. 

Visit the Georgetown SOM Summer Innovation Associate Program website to apply or for more information!

The program runs from June 1st through August 14th, 2020, and the application deadline is April 3, 2020, 8:59pm PST (early applications are encouraged).