Designed as an eight-year continuum, the program combines liberal arts and professional education to enable each student to develop advanced level competence in a chosen field of scholarship culminating in a medical degree. The PLME is an application of the open curriculum concept which has been successful at the undergraduate level at Brown.
Great flexibility is built into the program.
Each student develops an individualized educational plan in close collaboration with PLME faculty advisors. The PLME is the primary route of admission to Brown University School of Medicine. The Program in Liberal Medical Education is NOT an accelerated medical program. Rather, it encourages students to take advantage of the breadth of a liberal arts education, to take charge of their education, and to become active learners. Creative students need not sacrifice the benefits of a rich liberal arts education in order to gain admission to medical school.