Program in Liberal Medical Education
Degree Options
As undergraduates, PLME students may choose to work toward an AB or ScB degree in the sciences, or toward an AB in the humanities, social sciences, or behavioral sciences.
Degree Options
As undergraduates, PLME students may choose to work toward an AB or ScB degree in the sciences, or toward an AB in the humanities, social sciences, or behavioral sciences.
Advanced Scholarship in Medical School
PLME students who wish to earn an advanced degree (MA, ScM, MPH) must meet the requirements of the graduate school. Many academic departments at Brown offer graduate programs; these are listed in the Brown University Graduate School Catalog. After matriculation into the College, students should discuss their interests and goals with a director of a graduate program in planning any study that might lead to an advanced graduate degree.
Combined MD-ScM Program
The Primary Care-Population Medicine (PC-PM) program is an innovative, dual-degree curriculum that focuses on preparing students for a career in medicine while providing comprehensive, longitudinal training in population medicine.
An innovative curriculum that prepares students for the medical field while providing comprehensive training in population medicine.
Scholarly Concentrations
The Scholarly Concentrations Program is an elective program through which Brown medical students may elect to pursue a course of study beyond the conventional medical education curriculum. Scholarly Concentrations allow students to translate personal interests and activities into scholarship. For PLME students, the program represents an opportunity to continue and expand a current area of interest such as their undergraduate concentration or extracurricular activities, or to potentially explore a new medically-related topic. Students who participate in a Scholarly Concentration will undertake rigorous independent scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of interest related to medicine, public health, engineering, or a biomedically relevant topic in the sciences, arts, or humanities. In collaboration with their concentration area mentors, students will produce an academic product, such as a manuscript of publication quality, a curriculum project, or an equivalent product appropriate to the field of study.
Currently, students can pursue concentrations in the following disciplines:
- Aging
- Biomedical Informatics
- Caring for Underserved Communities
- Global Health
- Lifestyle Medicine and Integrative Health
- LGBTQ Healthcare and Advocacy
- Medical Education
- Medical Humanities and Ethics
- Medical Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Physician as Communicator
- Translational Research in Medicine
- Women's Reproductive Health
Scholarly concentrations offer unique opportunities for rigorous independent scholarship, interdisciplinary study, and mentored relationships across all four years at The Warren Alpert Medical School.