[Suzanne K Swanson]

Brown will also be doing all (residency/fellowships) interviews virtually as mandated by our GME office.

[Suzanne K Swanson]

Hello,

At Brown we offer 4  $1,500 scholarships a year for URM students.  The application is separate from the VSLO application and all of it is handled through the Brown clerkship office.  We do review all applications and choose the recipients, Brown handles the financials and invoices the department.  I hope this information is helpful.

Suzanne

[Suzanne K Swanson]

Jennifer,
This is a great discussion as we are always looking for ways to improve our interview days. At Brown we match 6 residents per year and this year we interviewed 95 applicants, this includes 30 students who rotated here. We have 2 interview days with the applicants split pretty evenly on each day. We also have a social the night before each interview day for the applicants and residents only.

We interview two groups each interview day, the 1st group comes in at 6:30 am for a 30 minute orientation session with our PD and Chairman, then begin their interviews. The 2nd groups comes in at 9:30 am and goes on a bus tour of our research facilities, the city of Providence, and our newest location where residents spend a great deal of time in the physicians’ offices and in the surgery center. Both groups meet for lunch at 12 noon where each Division Chief gives a 5 minute overview of their faculty and resident rotation. Once lunch is complete the 1st group goes on their tour which ends at approximately 3:00 pm, the 2nd group stays for orientation and then begin their interviews which end at approximately 6:00 pm.

The PD and Chairman each interview half of the applicants, 2 researchers each interview half of the applicants, we have 4 groups of two faculty members who interview as teams, each applicant interviews with 2 of these groups, these are the same faculty members each day. We also have a Chief Resident/PGY-6 room where applicants meet as a group to ask questions. Our residents have no clinical duties these days, except for our trauma team, they spend the entire days with the applicants. It’s a tight schedule but somehow we keep everyone on time.

I have attached the schedule I used this year. I hope this information is helpful and look forward to continuing this discussion at the ARCOS meeting.

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