We look forward to welcoming you to Providence!
Your first day of classes and orientation is Monday, July 14, 2025, at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Please see immunization requirements below (including Covid). We require that you submit these forms before July 1, 2025.
We strongly recommend you start or update your Covid-19 vaccine series including recommended boosters as soon as possible.
More detailed orientation and class schedule will be available on the MMS 2026 Google Calendar available in July 2025.
Tentative 2025-2026 schedule:
July Course: July 14, 2025 through July 25, 2025
Fall Semester: July 28, 2025 through December 12, 2025
Spring Semester: January 5, 2026 through May 22, 2026
Graduation: May 23, 2026
Since you will be doing clinical care as part of this program you will need to meet the RI Department of Health's Immunization and TB screening requirements for health care providers.
Note: Required before July 1, 2025
Complete the form and return to Brown Health Services
Upload your photo into Banner (see instructions sent separately from Grad School).
Photo shall be in the jpg format.
The individual must look at the camera, show entire face, neck and shoulders, and must be clear (not a photo of a photo).
Summer Readings/Textbooks Needed for the First Week
i. Recommended Summer Reading for Immunology: How the Immune System Works (6th Edition, April 2019) by Sompayrac; Wiley-
Blackwell; ISBN-10: 111954212X; ISBN-13: 978-1119542124
[gives you a head start for the immunology block starting Aug 30th]
ii. Required for week 1: Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients, 2nd edition. By T. E. King et al. ISBN-10: 0071834443. – available free electronically via Brown Library
For July 18: Chapters 1, 2 only
For July 19: Chapter 3 only
For July 21: Chapter 7 only
For July 27: Chapter 11 only
We will use King in the fall and spring semesters as well.
Full Textbook List – will be available soon
Most are available online and we have several copies in the Gateways library, so no need to buy any of these until after you arrive.
Required:
Stethoscope - You can choose your own. We suggest the Littman Classic II (approx $100)
Blood pressure cuff (manual) - Your choice (approx $25)
Required:
A laptop computer is required (needed for a variety of uses, capstone project, remote proctored exams, etc).
A second device is required for remote proctored exams (eg. Smartphone that has Zoom capability or an iPad).
Please click this link for minimum system requirements
All detailed course materials and assignments are available through the Canvas system.
Instructions to access course materials: Info coming in July.
Detailed daily schedules are available through the MMS 2026 Google calendar (permissions to this shared calendar will be coming in July)
We send our students to a variety of community health centers. Although we do not require that you have a car in order to participate in this program, we encourage you to have a car in RI if at all possible. Similar to medical student clinical sites, our clinical sites vary from 15 mins to about 45 mins away. We have been very successful in past years in having our students car pool (or take public transportation for closer sites). As with medical students, the financial aid office includes estimated transportation costs into the cost of attendance calculation.
Assignments will be made in mid-July.
Information about Providence, RI. For information regarding living in beautiful Providence, Rhode Island, please see the Living and Resources page on the Graduate School website.