BROWN UNIVERSITY GLOBAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE

• The 2 year fellowship offers 3 months per year of protected travel and research time.
• Easy scheduling allows for fellows to attend international conferences for presentations. 

Established international experiences available to our fellows include projects in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Nepal, Bangladesh, Belize, Ecuador, and Armenia, in areas such as post-conflict development, EM curricula design and training, acute humanitarian and disaster response, and global EM research. Visit the Global Sites page for more information about our well established core global opportunities. 

Fellows may also work closely with a faculty mentor within the Division of Global Emergency Medicine or outside faculty to establish their own international program or research project. Apart from HRIC, HELP, and other beneficial resources include the Brown University's Global Health Initiative, a unique forum for faculty and fellow collaboration that fosters cross-departmental mentoring relationships. Fellows will have the opportunity to work with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. 

Clinical Experience

Fellows will function as a teaching attending in the a high-volume Level I trauma center and local community hospital working with residents of a renowned four-year academic EM training program.

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University has one of the few formal academic Divisions of Global Emergency Medicine anywhere in the country allowing us to offer our Global Emergency Medicine fellows a wide range of training and mentoring resources. Our Division of Global Emergency Medicine includes faculty and fellows actively engaged in international emergency medicine development, training, research and humanitarian relief.

Over two years fellows will acquire and apply skills in epidemiology, research methodology, and program planning through a longitudinal academic project. As part of our Global Emergency Medicine fellowship, fellows can choose to earn an advanced degree in the following:

• Masters of Public Health (MPH)
• Masters of Global Public Health (MSc)
• Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMH)
• DTMH: Latin America
• DTMH: East Africa