The Warren Alpert Medical School Of Brown University

The Warren Alpert Medical School is the medical school of Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Established in 1811, the school was among the first in the nation to offer academic medical education. Today, Alpert Medical School is a component of Brown’s Division of Biology and Medicine, which also includes the Program in Biology. (A third component of the Division, the Program in Public Health, became the Brown University School of Public Health on July 1, 2013.) Together with the Medical School’s seven affiliated teaching hospitals, the Division attracts over $240 million in external research funding per year. The fourth most selective medical school in the United States, Alpert Medical School earned rankings of twenty-fourth for primary care education and thirty-first for research in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Graduates of Alpert Medical School are accepted into competitive residency programs and leading medical centers.