We are very pleased to provide this description of the Brown Medical School Combined Residency in Medicine and Pediatrics. Our program benefits from the strength of both long-standing independent residency programs in Internal Medicine and in Pediatrics as well as excellent departments and faculty in each discipline. Our program offers four positions per year leading to board eligibility in medicine and pediatrics.
Graduates are able to care for children, adults and families in a primary care setting.
The vast majority of Med-Peds graduates, according to a recent graduate survey by Lannon, et.al, continue to care for children and adults in their practices. It is indeed a rewarding and exciting experience. Med-Peds residents and faculty at Brown are deeply involved in the ongoing operation and evaluation of the program. Ours is an integrated residency, which attempts to go beyond simply creating parallel programs in each of the two specialties. The forum offers conferences, journal club and formal sessions on a variety of topics ranging from an approach to the medical literature to discussions of patient-practitioner interactions.