<p>I’m just wondering. Could you go to Brown regular undergrad and still study medicine at the school and in the future or would you have to be in Brown PLME to study medicine?</p>
<p>Medicine is a post-graduate field of study; you don’t study it in college. The PLME program gives you 4 years of undergrad at Brown, during which you do not study medicine, followed by four years of med school at Brown. If you’re not PLME, you just get the undergrad part; then, you have to apply to med schools at the end of college. You can apply to Brown’s medical school at the end of college, but I imagine that one’s chances aren’t particularly good in that situation.</p>
<p>Going to paste below what I wrote for the thread you started in the college life section. Mgcsinc brings up a point I forgot to mention which is that, as stated, you do not study “medicine” in undergrad. You can concentrate in Biology and many of the courses have lots of overlap/foundation for medical school courses (e.g. some brown courses I took that I felt were applicable to medical school were endocrinology, biochem, immuno, genetics, emerging microbial diseases, principles of physiology, cell bio, intro to neuroscience, and comparative biology of the vertebrates).</p>
<p>And now for what I said before:</p>
<p>The vast majority of Brown alumni in medicine did not do PLME. I imagine it would be more difficult to get into Brown Med as a non-PLME than if you had the same stats from a similar school seeing as half the class is already Brown kids and they probably want to diversify the class as much as possible.</p>
<p>As above. There are more students at Brown who are non-PLME premed, and will go on to another school for medical school than there are in the PLME class, (esp in the freshman, and sophomore classes as some students decide along the way that Premed is not for them.) However, as IWannaBe said above, it is VERY, VERY rare for Brown to accept students into the Brown Medical school from the non-PLME undergrads. The exception is for RI residents, and occ also students who have done a PhD at Brown. And the reason is to increase the diversity of the medical school class. (not all taught at Brown undergrad)</p>