Activities include, but are not limited to, lecture series, brown bag discussions and career days. PHIG serves as a source of information on public health issues for the student body. The Saint George Society is an organization of students with a strong interest in neoplasia. Through the American Cancer Society, the St. George's group sponsors a series of lectures by leaders in the fields of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and research. These sessions are provided particularly for students from Washington's medical schools.
Students pay no dues and become members by attending a majority of monthly lectures.
It also has the function of providing advice and guidance on future planning and policy development affecting the services provided, resources allocated and consumed and educational programs sponsored. The purpose is to improve health care delivery and provide medical information and education to the underprivileged and minority populations. Leadership for SNMA comes from the first year class. Volunteers teach in groups of three to five people once a week for approximately an hour about twice a month. Georgetown-Business in Medicine is devoted to physician leadership in business.