Georgetown also offers a five year program leading to an MD and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business for students with a strong interest in health care management. Alpha Omega Alpha Alpha Omega Alpha is a national medical honor society whose membership is chosen on the basis of scholarship, personal integrity and potential leadership. Its purpose is to foster the attainment of the highest ethical and professional standards in the study and practice of medicine. Usually four to six third year students are chosen in the spring of third year, another group in the fall of fourth year, and, in January of fourth year, the final group of fourth year students completes the membership. There is much formal and informal advising in all four years.
Career counseling begins with the assignment of faculty advisors in the first year.
Some advisors offer the opportunity for students to shadow them in their practice, but their primary goal is to give information and support to first year students and assist them in their work. Second year students may choose to remain with their original advisors, or they may request a new advisor for second year. Students in the first and second year also are exposed to practice through the required ambulatory care rotations, designed to utilize newly developed skills in patient interviewing and care, and to provide a picture of office-based medical practice. Faculty and staff in the Dean's Office working with Student Council also offer a series of interactive panel presentations about the different specialties, utilizing both full time faculty, as well as community physicians, who provide information about the requisite training as well as practice opportunities and life style. Students are encouraged to attend these optional sessions and to learn more about their future options.