Residency and Fellowship Programs
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University offers more than 100 residency and fellowship programs in partnership with its affiliated hospitals.
Residents and fellows at Brown enjoy full access to University services during their enrollment in an affiliated graduate medical education program, including library resources, athletic facilities, and transportation.
Residents and fellows at Brown enjoy full access to University services during their enrollment in an affiliated graduate medical education program, including library resources, athletic facilities, and transportation.
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University offers more than 100 residency and fellowship programs in partnership with its affiliated hospitals.
The School of Professional Studies (SPS) and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University are collaborating to offer all Brown-affiliated clinical department faculty and fellows an exclusive tuition discount to select masters and certificate programs offered at Brown.
The residency or fellowship program must be approved by the appropriate accrediting body where one exists and by the sponsoring hospital's GME committee.
The Chairperson of the Brown Department sponsoring the program must request approval for the use of the Medical School name in writing from the Dean of the Medical School by submitting an Approval Request Form. For residency and fellowship programs seeking status in more than one department (e.g., Combined Medicine/Pediatrics), both chairs will be responsible for communicating with the Dean. Email the completed application to BMFA.
In the case that approval is granted, the Dean of the Medical School will sign an agreement granting authority to use the Medical School name by the applicant GME program. The Chairperson is expected to acknowledge the policy guidelines governing affiliation, which will be included with agreement.
Please contact BMFA with questions.
The affiliated teaching hospital partners of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (hereinafter referred to as the Medical School) are the sponsors of ACGME and non-ACGME accredited residency and fellowship programs. The ACGME (and in some cases other bodies) will hold the respective sponsoring hospitals, and their Boards, responsible for all aspects of program operation. Thus, it is essential that the respective hospitals maintain authority and responsibility for the operation of the residency and fellowship programs.
It is widely acknowledged that both the hospital sponsors of GME programs and the Medical School benefit from the affiliation of the residency and fellowship programs with the Medical School and its Life and Public Health Sciences. This affiliation enhances the recruitment of residents, fellows and faculty to the hospital-sponsored GME programs. Additionally, this affiliation provides residents, fellows and faculty access to Brown University's educational resources and increases opportunities for educational and research grant funding. Thus, affiliation with the Medical School and the addition of the Brown imprimatur is considered highly advantageous to a residency or fellowship program.
The Medical School, in turn, benefits directly from the success of its affiliated GME programs. The faculty overseeing and serving the residency and fellowship programs, as well as the residents and fellows themselves, are essential teachers for required and elective courses offered by the Medical School during the pre-clinical and clinical years. Faculty, residents and fellows provide additional services to the Medical School in the form of medical student advising, teaching of undergraduates (PLME and others), research opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, medical and postdoctoral students, and research funding throughout the universe of the health sciences center. The funding for the residency and fellowship programs and for their involvement in medical school activities is provided primarily by the hospitals and by faculty foundations. Specifically, these funding sources comprise Medicare GME payments, clinical revenue of hospitals and faculty foundations, grants and philanthropy. The Medical School's education and scholarship are thus enhanced by the presence of the hospital-sponsored residency and fellowship programs.
Given the important role that residents, fellows and the attendant GME program faculty play in the education of Brown medical students, the Medical School has a vested interest in the quality of the affiliated GME programs. The Medical School also has an interest in any program to which its name is applied.
This policy was initially implemented in September of 2007. For all GME programs established after September 2007, the Chairperson of the Brown Department must request approval for the use of theMedical School name in writing from the Dean of the Medical School for all existing GME Programs by following the process set forth below. All programs established before September 2007, are grandfathered in and do not need to obtain written approval by the Dean in order to continue. However, the reporting requirements set forth below are required of both pre and post September 2007 programs.
The authority to grant a GME program use of the Medical School name is solely within the discretion of the Dean of the Medical School.
The process by which this approval is granted to a new program and maintained by an established program is as follows: