Part II – Brown University’s Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME): Medical Exchange Programs; Student Research

摘要

This issue of the Rhode Island Medical Journal continues RIMJ's special themed section on Brown University's Pro- gram in Liberal Medical Education; Part 1 appeared in July ( http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2015/07/2015-07-14-plme-com- plete.pdf .). Part 2 offers an overview of our medical exchange programs designed to offer our students international per- spectives on health care systems, delivery and innovation; it also offers a sample of our students' research interests. Currently, we have 12 exchange programs; exchanges involve students from our international partners attending Brown's fourth-year clinical electives and Brown students going to our international partner schools for either clini- cal electives or an arranged experience which I will briefly review for each program where it is pertinent. In all cases, teaching in our international exchange partner institutions is in English but whenever possible, possessing conversa- tional language skills for the host country are encouraged. All exchanges offer clinical elective rotations (generally for our fourth-year medical students) and most will accommo- date our students for research as well. I have outlined some "special programs" for our exchanges that offer them.