Welcome to Warren Albert Medical College, Brown University
Since graduating in medicine in 1975, Warren Albert Medical
College has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical
research. The College of Medicine and its seven education hospitals have
brought world-class doctors and researchers to Rhode Island over the last four
decades, radically improving the state's health care environment from
healthcare to patient care.
Students are admitted to school in various ways. The College
of Medicine awards approximately 120 doctoral degrees each year.
The College of Medicine is part of Brown's Department of
Biology and Medicine, which also includes the Biology Program. Together with
its seven Brown Education Hospitals, the Collective Research Foundation for
Life Sciences and Health receives $ 180 million in research grants each year.
Mission
Support and promote the health of individuals and
communities through innovative medical education programs, research
initiatives, clinical excellence in public services, and health and well-being
for all.
Vision
We intend to recruit, train and support several individuals
working together to lead transformative and socially responsible medical
education at local, national and international levels, research, clinical care
and advocacy. We will inspire and strengthen scientists and medical executives
who positively impact the health of people and society.
values
- Humanity and compassion
- Integrity, accountability and cooperation
- Creativity, innovation and discovery
- Inclusiveness, diversity and justice
- Commitment to the fight against racism
- Social responsibility, local and global
- Community involvement and service
- Commitment to professional development
These data were developed in 2019 with commentary from administrators, scientists, university representatives and senators to medical students.
Production of the medical faculty
The history of medicine in Rhode Island and the history of
Warren Albert Medical College at Brown University have been closely linked for
two centuries. This alignment has never been more relevant than it is today,
when the Faculty of Medicine is at the heart of one of the most important
academic medical centers, comprising seven affiliates of hospitals with a
network of communication and collaboration across Rhode Island and beyond.
In 1811, Brown was the third university in the country to
offer academic medical education. In its short 16-year history, this early
program has attracted some famous teaching physicians who have participated in
national roles, co-founded the American Medical Association, and helped develop
the first national standards for medical education. At the local level, they
helped build and manage the Rhode Island Medical Association and worked with
their colleagues to realize Rhode Island Hospital, a goal they had achieved
after decades of dedication. The most famous of them is Dr. Osher Parsons, who
became the first president of Rhode Island Hospital.
The public calls to revive Brown's medical education began
immediately after the school's closure in 1827, repeating over 136 years.
Appeals came from ordinary Rhode Islanders, doctors, hospitals, and
politicians, all recognizing the benefits that the medical school would bring
to the state - in terms of the level and scope of healthcare, the number and
expertise of doctors. , In the growth of hospital programs and technologies and
in the local economy.
Mid-20th century
In 1963 the calls were answered. The first steps were taken
to remove Rhode Island from the list of small countries without a medical
school. The impulse was promoted by the state government, the federal
government and private foundations as well as the university. Dr. Pierre
Galletti, Dean of the First University of Biology and Medicine, dr. Milton
Hamolsky, Head of Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, Walter Wilson, one of the
key pioneers in the creation of the Master of Medical Sciences program.
Although the program lasted four consecutive years of study
and only two postgraduate studies in basic science, it immediately increased
the growth of Brown College and collaborating hospital staff, where common data
and new training programs were created.
In 1969, when he graduated with a master's degree in medical
science, the program was already changing the state's medical landscape:
accelerating the delivery of new technologies and techniques to patients,
attracting more and better qualified people to Rhode Island's hospitals and
encouraging more young doctors In addition, practice in the state and motivate
more students from Rhode Island (who were most represented in the state's
medical schools) to study medicine.
The hospitals and the community needed more, and under the
direction of dr. Stanley Aronson, Dean of the Founder of Medicine, dr. David
Greer, associate Dean, and later Dean, as well as a group of medical students
and faculty members committed to revising medical education, soon developed a
four-year medical program. Together, they developed a program to prepare
physicians who are committed to excellence in patient care and human values -
today the foundation of Warren Albert Medical College.
With the introduction of the full medical degree program in
1972, where he brought with him medical Akleniecaat in seven affiliated
hospitals and a group of new specialists and new laboratories and new research
programs and new clinical services.
In the 35 years since the first medical faculty graduated in
1975, Brown's Faculty of Medicine has expanded its faculty, programs, and class
size. The houses, disciplines and technologies have spread, partnerships have
evolved and deepened, research initiatives have flourished.
Modern era
Today, the Department of Biology and Medicine at Brown -
component of the College of Medicine and Warren Albert Program in Biology - is
home to many centers of excellence in the field of biomedical research and
clinical care. In 2013, $ 280 million in external funding was dedicated to
research by Faculty members of the Department and Clinical Department of the
Faculty of Medicine.
A campus-based, global campus-based faculty with about 1,000
members studied in five departments of basic science and fourteen clinical
departments. They employ 25 residency programs at partner hospitals, including
Rhode Island Hospital, the school's first clinical site, the main educational
institution. Training opportunities are being augmented by a large network of
Rhode Island physicians who are volunteer members of the clinical faculty.
Warren Albert Medical School attracts quite a variety of
students from all parts of the United States and abroad through two main
routes: the medical liberal education program, a continuum period of eight
years from university and medical examinations and the method of standard
admission, open to applicants from outside the community of Brown. These
students are among the best prepared and most talented students in the country.
Work with the faculty in the educational experience based on innovative
approaches that focus on efficiency, enriched strong research institution,
formed by a commitment to human medicine, the front of the school's hallmark
four decades.
The new home was inaugurated the College of Medicine and
Warren Albert Medical, which is the first building in its own history of living
under one roof the basic equipment of academic medicine, its doors in August
2011. To the direct impact of being able to attract more medical students accept
- Increase the class size by 20 percent to 120. Introduction of new academic
programs. The Medical Education Building is an important step in Rhode Island's
growth as an important center for biotechnology and medicine. Brown Research
contributed to this development. It also indicates rapid growth in the history
of the Faculty of Medicine, initiated by pioneers and innovators, and inspired
by the needs and desires of their community.
Warren Albert Medical College has become one of the
country's best medical faculties, with a strong and growing research community
and excellent clinical care. His main task - the training of doctors
excellently equipped to improve the health of individuals and communities - are
inseparable from their commitment to setting up a medical facility at the
academy first in Rhode Island.
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