Rhode Island Hospital-Brown University Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Brown's Urology program is a five-year, university-based training pathway (6 months general surgery/specialties followed by four years of urology) anchored at Rhode Island Hospital, the region's Level I trauma center, alongside Hasbro Children's Hospital, the Providence VA, and Women & Infants Hospital, giving residents breadth across adult, pediatric, oncologic, reconstructive, and women's urologic disease. With only 2-3 residents matched per year and 21 active clinical faculty, the program emphasizes a small, tight-knit structure paired with high surgical case volume, multi-console DaVinci robotic training with a dedicated simulation curriculum, and significant resident autonomy at the VA and hospital clinics. Alumni outcomes split roughly evenly between subspecialty fellowship (endourology, FPMRS, oncology, andrology, pediatric urology) and general urology private or academic practice, with several graduates returning to join Brown Urology faculty, reflecting a program that produces both community proceduralists and academically embedded subspecialists. Selection criteria explicitly foreground academic performance, extracurricular involvement, and research endeavors alongside a dedicated outpatient rotation residents can tailor toward research or quality-improvement interests.