Georgetown University: Medical Center

Campus Ministry at Georgetown University's Medical Center

Community
Georgetown is a Catholic and Jesuit school. Its educational goals are inspired by the Christian challenge to build a community of colleagues that share a thirst for God’s gift of enlightenment. Campus Ministry assists in seeking that goal by reminding all members of the university that it is possible to create such a community – that such a community is not a daydream.

Collaboration
Georgetown’s Medical Center works to create such a community by instilling a spirit of collaboration in its graduate students studying clinical medicine, medical research, and nursing and health sciences. Guided by the Gospel message of service, reconciliation, and healing, Campus Ministry helps the Medical center pursue the goal of collaboration by teaching the skills necessary for mindfulness, communication, and cooperation.

Peer Ministry
The primary method that Campus Ministry uses to develop habits of mindfulness, communication, and cooperation, is to teach their pursuit through peer ministry. We do that by assisting small groups of students to reflect together on matters that are important to them.  We assist them, for instance, in forming groups of about ten students who will agree to met once a week to hear one another answer the question, "How are you coping with the demands of your work?"  Other groups will be helped to focus on more specifically spiritual matters such as the Bible (or other sacred writings) or questions of religious faith. 

Reflection
The ministry that members of small groups provide one another is assistance in reflection - helping each other develop habits of attentiveness and mindfulness.