Education
About Brown UniversityBrown University is situated at the top of College Hill, a residential neighborhood on the historic East Side of Providence, located 1.5 miles from Rhode Island Hospital. Brown University was founded in 1764; a Division of Biology and Medicine was established in 1968 and full accreditation of a four-year medical school was granted in 1975. An average of 80 men and women are awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine each year.
The residency and fellowship training programs are the sole graduate medical education programs in diagnostic radiology at the medical school. The Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at Brown Medical School is based at Rhode Island Hospital and the Chairman of Diagnostic Imaging at Women and Infants' Hospital is a department member. The majority of students from Brown Medical School rotate through Rhode Island, Women and Infants' and Hasbro Children's Hospitals for clinical clerkships and electives.
Introductory level elective courses in radiology and advanced electives in cross-sectional imaging and vascular and interventional radiology are offered to third and fourth year medical students through the Department of Diagnostic Imaging. Collaborative research in basic science, clinical medicine, and healthcare management is conducted with other graduate level departments and with the basic science faculty at Brown Medical School.
