The Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) faculty includes more than 40 Full Time Faculty and over 100 Clinical/Part-time faculty across Rhode Island Hospital (Primary Site) and The Miriam Hospital.
Led by DGIM Director Kelly McGarry, MD, FACP, the General Internal Medicine Division, based at Rhode Island Hospital, engages in substantive and impactful patient care, educational, community outreach, medical education scholarship, and research activities. Examples of such activities include:
Education. DGIM faculty are responsible for major roles in undergraduate and graduate medical education and residency leadership within the Department of Medicine. Our faculty are responsible for curriculum development, residency scholarship, quality improvement activities and department-wide faculty development. DGIM is also home to one of the country’s oldest Primary Care Residency programs, with a strong emphasis on behavioral medicine. We are also home to the Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Members of the division hold major leadership positions in National Graduate Medical Education organizations such as the American College of Physicians, Society for General Internal Medicine, Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine, and Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. For more information about the Brown Internal Medicine Residency Program, including the General Internal Medicine/Primary Care Residency and General Internal Medicine roles, please see https://brownim.org.
Clinical Care. DGIM clinical activities include six academic clinical practice sites, with clinical expertise in women’s health, men’s health, and gender-affirming care. DGIM faculty are responsible for leadership, education and precepting in resident continuity clinics, supervising and teaching residents using a state-of-the-art interactive curriculum. A unique feature of this division is that most of our faculty teach and supervise residents and interns on the geographically oriented inpatient general medicine wards at RIH. While in their roles as hospitalists, they draw upon outpatient experience to provide a well-rounded educational experience which complements that of other inpatient resident rotations.
Community Outreach. The Division of General Internal Medicine, under the energetic leadership of Dr. Kyla Dewar, partners with the Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion of the Division of Biology and Medicine of Brown on various Pathways initiatives to improve opportunities in health-related careers for students under-represented in medicine in our communities. Our faculty provides mentorship and clinical opportunities for shadowing to the Pathways’ high school students as well as college students participating in the Month of Medical School and The Leadership Alliance Physician-Scientist track of the Brown University SR-EIP. To learn more about these and other pathway programs please visit https://diversity.biomed.brown.edu/resources-information/pre-med-pre-health.
Medical Education Scholarship. Under the direction of Dr. Rebekah Gardner the division figures prominently in contributions to medical education innovations and scholarship regionally and nationally. We support scholarship opportunities for all division faculty through mentoring, guidance, and support and through several initiatives, including: the STAR grant program, Research in Progress workshops, Workshopaloozas, our Mentoring Program, and our Faculty Development Series. Many division faculty have leadership positions in regional and national medical education organizations.
Research. Our research faculty have grown tremendously over the last 5 years, going from one full-time researcher to five. HIV prevention and care, substance use disorders, tobacco cessation, and improving healthcare and access for those with disability and serious illness are some of the subject areas investigated and presented nationally.
We invite you to explore this website to learn about the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brown.