Scholarly Concentrations Program

The Scholarly Concentrations Program is an elective program through which Alpert Medical School students may elect to pursue a course of study beyond that of the conventional medical education curriculum. Scholarly Concentrations offer students the opportunity to translate personal interests and activities into scholarship. 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 bio-medically relevant topic in the sciences, arts, or humanities.

The Scholarly Concentrations offer students "real world" educational experiences and the opportunity to apply their biomedical knowledge in new and exciting ways. 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 there are twelve scholarly concentration areas:  Advocacy and Activism; Aging; Contemplative Studies; Disaster Medicine and Response; Global Health; Informatics; Medical Education; Medical Ethics; Medical Humanities; Medical Technology and Innovation; Physician as Communicator; and Women’s Reproductive Health, Freedom and Rights.  We welcome proposals for new concentration areas.  Please contact Emily Green (Emily_Green@brown.edu) for more information on this proposal process.

Contact Information

For more information about the Scholarly Concentrations Program please contact

Emily Green, MA
Assistant Director of Medical Student Affairs
Room 218, Bio Medical Center
Providence, RI 02912
Emily_Green@brown.edu
Phone: (401) 863-9139
FAX: (401) 863-3582