Rhode Island Hospital-Brown University Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large, university-based academic general surgery program at Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School, anchored at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children's Hospital with rotations across five affiliated sites (Miriam Hospital, Providence VA, Newport Hospital, Women & Infants), giving residents trauma, transplant, oncologic, and subspecialty exposure across a Level I trauma center and community-flavored satellite hospitals. Research infrastructure is substantial and institutionally embedded: a dedicated Division of Surgical Research with COBRE-funded labs, an NIH-sponsored Trauma and Inflammation Research Training Grant, and the Versaci Research Scholar Award explicitly designed to build physician-scientists, indicating the program actively cultivates residents toward academic surgical careers rather than merely tolerating research interest. The curriculum is heavily structured around simulation and skills verification (SCORE, FLS, FES, robotics curriculum with Intuitive certification, vascular anastomosis lab), reflecting a competency-and-metrics-driven approach to progressive autonomy. The program also absorbs numerous off-service and preliminary trainees, suggesting a broad institutional teaching mission alongside its categorical training goals.