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AΩA Fellowships & Awards
The AΩA student members are involved in heading scholarships and awards set up by the national AΩA organization. Details can be found on the main national AΩA website.

Medical Student Service Projects: Our students are dedicated to serving the medical school and local community.

Current projects include:
"Cruising through the third year" (last update, 2007) written and frequently updated by our AOA elected senior class, this guide provides advice to students entering their medical clerkships
http://www.gwumc.edu/smhs/students/CruisingThrough3rdYear.pdf
GWU AΩA Student Tutoring Service As a service to the school, senior medical student inductees of the GWU chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society have volunteered to tutor the first and second year medical students at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The tutoring service provides volunteer tutoring services between November and April. GWU medical students who are seeking aid should contact the Dean's Office who will then work with our tutoring coordinator, an elected member of the AΩA senior class, to match available tutors with interest in particular topics with students requesting help in those areas.
Contact: Rhonda M. Goldberg, MA
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
(202) 994-3176 or msdrmg@gwumc.edu
AΩA Student Service Award Project All GWU students in good standing are eligible and encouraged to apply. Please contact the chapter secretary for further information and assistance in the application process
2007 GWU Awardees: Meghan Karuturi, Class of 2008 and Naomi Silva, Class of 2008 (Faculty Mentor, Dr. Matthew Mintz) for the project entitled The Health Empowerment Initiative where medical students participate in the dissemination of health information to residents of N Street Village, a community center offering services to homeless women near the GWU campus. The students have designed a program of basic health care education and lifestyle modification combined with a long-term plan to collect and track the progress of their work through student-applied questionnaires in order to improve and target their service through this underserved-community based program.

2007 AΩA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship: Fellowships are awarded annually to students in their first, second, or third year (fourth year students not eligible). Each will provide $4000 to the student for support of the proposed research and $500 to the faculty supervisor in support of the student's project. All GWU students in good standing are eligible and encouraged to apply. Please contact the chapter secretary for further information and assistance in the application process
2006 GWU Awardee: Douglas Olson (Class of 2007) - A Survey of Teaching Health and Human Rights in U.S. Medical Schools
Student Mentor: Katalin E. Roth, JD, MD - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at GWU
Received Doris Deford Speck Award at GWU Research Day, 2007
 
2007 GWU Awardee: Sundeep Agarwal (Class of 2010) - Comparison of Thoracoscopic Anterior Spinal Fusion and Posterior Spinal Fusion for Single Thoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Student Mentor: Daniel Sucato, MD - Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, TX