Teaching Opportunities For Alpert Medical School Faculty

DOCTORING COURSE

Contact:  863-9717 for information

Doctoring (Bio 360-361, 362-363) is a 4-semester course during the first two years of medical school that was inaugurated in the fall semester of 2005 as part of the medical school’s pre-clinical curriculum redesign.  The course is an unprecedented opportunity for community physicians in virtually all disciplines to have a prominent role in the longitudinal development of our students.  Students spend a half-day per week over two years in the classroom setting learning the core skills of medical interviewing, physical diagnosis, oral presentations, written documentation, and professionalism.  During Year 1, the classroom sessions are on Tuesday afternoons and in Year 2, the classroom sessions are on Thursday afternoons during the regular school year.  Classroom sessions are co-taught by a community physician and a social and behavioral science faculty member to students in groups of eight. 

As another major part of the course, students work longitudinally during the year with a community physician-mentor in a variety of clinical settings.  Physicians in all specialties, both in community-based practices and hospital settings, provide students with the opportunity to practice their classroom skills with real patients.  Mentor sessions occur approximately eight one half-day sessions per semester during the academic year.

INPATIENT FAMILY MEDICINE TEACHING SERVICE AND MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICE

Inpatient Adult Medicine and Pediatrics: Contact:Margaret_Tryforos@mhri.org or 729-2769 
Family Physicians interested in Maternal and Child Health and Obstetrics faculty should contactSusanna_Magee_MD@brown.edu or 729-2237

Faculty who are board certified or board eligible in family medicine, internal medicine, and obstetrics are welcome to join the teaching services as attendings where they will provide clinical teaching to medical students, residents and fellows.  

LONGITUDINAL CLERKSHIP IN FAMILY MEDICINE

Contact: Jane Shaw jane_shaw@brown.edu or 729-2763, David Anthony david_anthony@brown.edu

A program for hosting medical students in your office for one-on-one teaching.  Open to Family Medicine physicians only.

THE MEDICINE IN ACTION PROGRAM

Contact: Hilary_Sweigart@brown.edu or 863-9790 

The Medicine in Action Program (MIAP) is an early professional development opportunity for PLME undergraduate students and Brown medical students.  It offers students the chance to spend some time (generally for one-day visits or for a morning/afternoon) observing Brown medical faculty and alumni in a variety of health care settings.  This is sometimes a student's introduction to the clinical field.  Longer visits may be arranged during the winter or spring break periods.

THE OFFICE OF MINORITY MEDICAL AFFAIRS MENTORING PROGRAM

Contact: Zoila_Quezada@Brown.edu  863-2364 

The minority medical mentoring program was started in April 2009.  The purpose of the program is to provide increased opportunities for the students to engage and interact with minority faculty at Brown and in the Rhode Island community. It will help to ensure the success of under-represented students by decreasing the sense of isolation and bias that is commonly felt by the students.  The program was expanded to include alumni nationwide in November 2009.  Mentors and mentees are asked to complete an application that details their professional and personal interests and preferences. Mentors are expected to meet with the mentees twice during the semester (minimally once in person) and to provide guidance on an as-needed basis in the interim.  Mentees also have a list of expectations to make the relationship more productive. 

OUTPATIENT PRECEPTING OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS IN THE FAMILY CARE CENTER TEACHING PRACTICE

Contact: laura_lavallee@mhri.org or 729-2961 

A program open to Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Orthopedics, Social Work, and Psychology. Faculty members provide one-on-one and small-group teaching to medical students, family medicine residents, and psychiatry interns who are caring for a broad range of healthcare issues in a model family practice teaching center in an underserved multi-ethnic community.  Faculty can be scheduled for half days any day of the week or Wednesday evenings.  

RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC

Contact: Beth_Toste@brown.edu, Elizabeth_Naylor@brown.edu 
The executive director of RIFC: Lisa Smolski (LSmolski@Lifespan.org) or 274-6347

Volunteer preceptors at the Rhode Island Free Clinic are desperately needed for the Thursday evening sessions when the students are there.  Typically, this is a shadowing type experience for the 2nd-year students, though we also occasionally have 3rd- or 4th-year med students there who are precepted by the licensed physician faculty (that is, the students see the patient first, then discuss it with the preceptor, then both go back to see the patient again and the preceptor countersigns the student's note). 

RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL MEDICAL SIMULATION CENTER (RIHMSC)

Contact: Emily Hinchey Ehinchey@Lifespan.org or 793-8612

The Rhode Island Hospital Medical Simulation Center (RIHMSC) was established in 2002 and has grown steadily since its inception.  The Department of Emergency Medicine faculty physicians and staff who direct the Center work to fulfill its mission of promoting excellence in clinical care, advancing patient safety initiatives, improving multidisciplinary team performance, and contributing to healthcare education and research through broad applications of high fidelity medical simulation.  The center is a valuable regional training resource for nurses, residents, fellows, attending physicians, medical students, respiratory therapists, prehospital providers and other healthcare personnel.

RIHMSC welcomes inquiries from those interested in educating healthcare providers.  Interested physicians who want to learn more about simulation-enhanced education and academics can receive appropriate training and technological support from our dedicated team of simulation specialists.  Formal and individualized reports of learner evaluations will be routinely generated for documentation of educational productivity.

STUDENT MENTORING IN FAMILY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP

Contact: Jane Shaw jane_shaw@brown.edu or 729-2763, David Anthony david_anthony@brown.edu

A program for Family Medicine physicians only.

THE SUMMER RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP PROGRAM

Contact: Hilary_Sweigart@brown.edu or 863-9790 

The Summer Research Assistantship Program offers PLME students the opportunity to engage in a 10-week research experience.  The research must be conducted at Brown University or at an affiliated hospital, under the direction and mentorship of a sponsor with a Brown University faculty appointment.  Student application guidelines are available in the PLME Office in the Biomedical Center Suite 222.  Faculty with possible research projects are welcome to e-mail the project title, research setting, contact information and required student background toHilary_Sweigart@Brown.edu.  

WHOLE PATIENT PROGRAM

Contact: Hilary_Sweigart@brown.edu or 863-9790 

This Whole Patient Program is for Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) first-year undergraduate students.  It emphasizes the significance of the doctor-patient relationship and attempts to demonstrate to students the importance of treating the patient's illness as opposed to treating the disease.  A guest physician presents along with his/her invited guest patient.  Recognizing the limited medical knowledge of the undergraduate students, the program does not attempt to address topics from a clinical perspective.  Rather, it stresses the role of empathetic understanding in the practice of medicine.

WHOLE PHYSICIAN PROGRAMM

Contact: Hilary_Sweigart@brown.edu or 863-9790 

The Whole Physician Program focuses on life as a medical student and as a physician.  Through panel presentations, it attempts to show PLME undergraduates:

THE WOMEN IN MEDICINE MENTOR PROGRAM

Contact: Debra_Abeshaus@brown.edu or 863-2450/7960
http://bms.brown.edu/wim/mentor.html 

Every fall, students are invited to take part in the Women in Medicine Mentor Program that promotes connections between women medical students early in their educational and professional studies, with women physicians based at Brown affiliated hospitals and in the community.  Through informal meetings with their mentors, students can learn about a medical specialty, a field of health care delivery, or a specific career choice from the perspective of a woman physician.  This is also an opportunity for students to consider ways of shaping their career goals in medicine.

The primary objectives of the program are to:
•  link women students and physician role models
•  offer students opportunities to meet with women medical faculty, residents, and fellows from different specialties and settings
•  clarify personal and professional goals through individual and group mentoring
•  advance the importance of networking

Students and mentors have considered a variety of themes including: residency training, blending family and career, medical specialty interests, women in academic medicine, careers integrating research and clinical responsibilities, women in leadership positions, specialized health care delivery (e.g. primary care, public health, women’s health, international health, rural medicine, etc.), and MD/PhD programs.

Service Opportunities For Alpert Medical School Faculty

Brown University Committees

Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee 
Contact William Corrao at WCorrao@lifepsan.org

Admissions Committee
Contact Arnold-Peter Weiss apcweiss@brown.edu or 863-2149

Department-Specific Committees

e.g.:
Clinical Promotions Committee

Morbidity and Mortality Committee

Residency Interviewing Committee