In 2004, the Brown Department of Medicine entered into an educational exchange agreement with the Department of Internal Medicine at Cabral y Baez hospital in Santiago, Dominican Republic. In choosing Cabral y Baez as an educational exchange site, the Department considered the relevance of an experience in the Dominican Republic to our patient population in Providence, the relative ease of travel to Santiago, and the desire of many Brown internal medicine residents and medical students to gain international experience in a Spanish-speaking country. At Cabral, we found internal medicine colleagues eager to partner with us in a mutually beneficial educational exchange program.
Santiago de los Caballeros is the second largest city in the Dominican Republic. Located in the Cibao Valley in the northwest of the country, the city is about an hour south of the Dominican North Coast (and therefore has many beaches within daytrip distance). It is a great urban place for us medical students and residents to live and learn Dominican culture, as well as a home base from which we can explore the rest of the country.
