Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) students will host their 10th annual Turkey Trot 5K/10K run in downtown Scranton on Sunday, Nov. 3. Proceeds will benefit the nonprofit charitable organization, Friends of the Poor.

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's (GCSOM) chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) recently participated in LMSA's Policy Summit held in October in Washington, D.C. Fourth-year student, Yoseph Aldras, who served as president in his second year, served as the conference co-chair of LMSA's national Policy Committee. In that position, he helped plan the summit, developed promotional materials, worked with invited speakers and reviewed policy resolutions drafted by attendees at the three-day event.

Kristina Borham of Oxford, a fourth-year medical student at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM), has been invited to share her experiences building awareness of human trafficking among medical students at the 2020 Medical Symposium on Human Trafficking to be held in February in Richmond, Virginia.