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 Brown
University is situated at the top of College Hill, a beautiful
and historic residential neighborhood on the east side of
Providence. The Ivy League campus is a 133-acre complex of
architecturally diverse old and new buildings centered around
the college green. Founded in 1764, Brown University is the
seventh oldest college in the United States, and the third
oldest in New England.
The University first began educating physicians
in 1811 with a faculty of three professors. A total of 87
Doctor of Medicine degrees were awarded before the school
was "temporarily suspended" after 16 years of operation.
In 1963 - 136 years later - the very year the Rhode Island Hospital Plastic Surgery Residency was started - Brown University
initiated a Master of Medical Science program for a selected
group of high school graduates. Nine years later, the University
corporation approved the expansion of the Division of Biology
and Medicine to include a Program in Medicine leading to the
degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In early 1975, the Program in Medicine
received its full accreditation as a four-year medical school,
and the first M.D. degrees were presented in June, 1975, to
a graduating class of 58 students. The Program in Medicine
was renamed the Brown Medical School in 1991, and today awards
the degree of Doctor of Medicine to an average of 80 men and
women each year.
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Island Hospital (RIH) is a major teaching hospital of the
Brown Medical School. A private, 719-bed, acute care hospital
and academic medical center, RIH was founded in 1863, towards
the end of the Civil War. Today, RIH is the largest of the
state's general acute care hospitals, providing comprehensive
health services. Its 66-acre campus is located in the southern
part of the capitol city of Providence, at the intersection
of two interstate highways.
RIH admits more than 30,000 patients each
year, logs more than 129,000 visits in its various outpatient
programs and provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic
services to inpatients and outpatients. As a regional referral
center and Level I Trauma Center, RIH serves patients throughout
Rhode Island and southern New England, and serves as the pediatric
tertiary and intensive care center for the region. The Emergency
Department serves over 120,000 patients each year, and has recently (April, 2005) opened an entirely new facility.
The 68-acre campus houses 30 buildings.
Most of the patient care areas are located in the Main Building,
Jane Brown Memorial Building, Hasbro Children's Hospital,
Ambulatory Patient Center, and Cooperative Care Center complex,
which includes a new Ambulatory Surgery Center and Medical
Office Center.
RIH has more than 1,000 physicians on
its active staff, representing virtually every medical and
surgical specialty. Physicians on the RIH medical staff need
to hold current board-certification by the approved organization
for their specialty or subspecialty, or be qualified to become
board certified.
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