Guide to the Brown University Medical School records , 1963-2007


John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Published in 2022

Collection Overview

Title: Brown University Medical School records
Date range: 1963-2007
Creator: Brown University
Extent: 33.35 Linear Feet
7 records center boxes, 59 document boxes
Abstract: The Brown University Medical School records comprise a range of administrative files related to various Medical School and University committees, student affairs, facilities and planning. Materials include agendas, annual reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, and topical files. Materials date from 1963 through 2007.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Collection number: OF.1ZME.3

Scope & content

Access Points

Subject Topics Document Types

Arrangement

The collection is organized in three series:

  • I. General files, 1963-2004
  • II. Correspondence, 1996-2001
  • III. Additions, circa 1984-2007

Administrative history

In 1811 Brown became the third university in the nation to offer academic medical education. The initial program lasted sixteen years. The program was revived in 1963 with funding provided from the University, state and federal governments, and private foundations. Dr. Pierre Galletti, the University's first dean of biology and medicine, Dr. Milton Hamolsky, chief of medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, and Professor of Biology J. Walter Wilson were among the prime movers in the creation of the Master of Medical Science program. Initially a continuum of four years of undergraduate study and just two of graduate study in basic science, the program sparked growth in the Brown faculty and in the staffs of collaborating hospitals, as joint appointments and new training programs were created. A four-year medical program developed under the leadership of Dr. Stanley Aronson, founding dean of medicine, Dr. David Greer, associate and later second dean, and a cohort of medical students and faculty committed to a novel re-imagining of medical education. The full medical degree program was launched in 1972, bringing with it clinical clerkships at seven affiliated hospitals and an infusion of new specialists, new laboratories, new research programs, and new clinical services. The Division of Biology and Medicine is composed of the Alpert Medical School, the Program in Biology, and the Public Health Program. In 2011, the Alpert Medical School occupied the first building in its history dedicated to housing the core facilities for academic medicine under one roof.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access for non-digital materials, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested. Advance notice is required to view born-digital records. Born-digital materials in this collection have not been reformatted yet. Researchers may request access to copies by contacting the John Hay Library with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. Access to original physical digital media is restricted.
Use of the materials: Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the Brown University Library. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Brown University Medical School records, OF-1ZME-3, Brown University Archives.
Contact information: John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Brown University Library staff.
Encoding: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-10-07.
Descriptive rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Sponsor: Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Additional Information

Inventory

Series I. General files, 1963-2004

Container Description Date
Box 1 Meetings, agendas, and faculty appointments
Contents Note: Files include: Hospital and lifespan boards; Committee on Medical Faculty Appointments records, 2000-2002; Chaffee roundtable; and assorted files.

 1998-2004
Box 2 Communications Coordinating Council and Biomed Faculty Council
Contents Note: Files include: President's briefing (2001) and staff bonus program.

 1997-2004
Box 3 Campaign plan, discretionary accounts, and Cardiology division records
Contents Note: Files include: Dean's discretionary account and University Cardiology Foundation, Inc. records.

 1996-2000
Box 4 Annual Reports/Advisory and Executive Committee, Meeting Minutes
 2001
Box 4 Annual Reports/Advisory and Executive Committee, Meeting Minutes (1/2)
 2001-2002
Box 4 Annual Reports/Advisory and Executive Committee, Meeting Minutes (2/2)
 2001-2002
Box 4 Atunah-Joy, Sara
Box 4 Confidentiality/Public Health Hazards
Box 4 Legal : MCB Fraud Issue
Box 4 Legal (Use of Brown Medical School Name)
Box 4 Legal Issues : Meetings with Beverly Ledbetter
Box 4 Legal Matters
Box 4 Majedah, Besser, MD.
Box 4 Medical School Graduation Questionnaire
 2003
Box 4 Medicare Cost Reports
Box 4 Rosemary Turner - Admission
Box 4 Student Affairs, Affinity Group
Box 4 Student Affairs, AMSA conference
 2001
Box 4 Student Affairs, Biology 103
Box 4 Student Affairs, Biomed 262 : Neurologic Pathophysiology
Box 4 Student Affairs, Biomed 278 : Introduction to psychiatry, review committee
Box 4 Student Affairs, Biomed 281 : Hematology Pathophysiology
Box 4 Student Affairs, Miscellaneous
Box 5 Bio-Med Faculty Council
 2001
Box 5 Bio-Med Faculty Council
 2002
Box 5 Bio-Med Faculty Council
 2003
Box 5 Dean's Office : Budget
 1999-2000
Box 5 Division Primer
Box 5 New Building Project
 1998
Box 5 Unsorted files
Contents Note: Four folders.
Box 9 Faculty staffing, financial aid, and grants office
Contents Note: Files include: miscellaneous correspondence and departmental records.

 1996-2002
Box 10 Corporation Committee on Academic Affairs, Corporation Committee on Biomedical Affairs
 1997-2000
Box 11 Corporation Committee on Biomedical Affairs
Contents Note: Minutes; trustee materials; speakers; mailings.

 2001-2002
Box 12 Reports and publications
Contents Note: Files include: Future directions: Lifespan and its partners (2000); literature from Association of American Medical Colleges, 1997-2000.

 1997-2000
Box 13 Life Sciences Building documents
Contents Note: Includes binders on schematic design cost estimate; proposal from Ballinger architecture firm. Also includes folder: review of medical school prospectus.

 1999-2002
Box 14 Life Sciences Building documents
Contents Note: Includes files on space program; biomed roundtable.

 2001-2004
Box 15 Strategic and campaign planning, financial records, student handbook
 1981-2004
Box 16 Strategic plan, CEO minutes and agenda, and academic records
Contents Note: Files include: internships; independent study; 2001 med school graduation questionaire.

 1990-2002
Box 19 Affiliated Hospitals Conference minutes
Contents Note: 6 folders

 1983-1988
Box 26 Biomed Labs and Life Sciences Building documents
 1998-2003
Box 27 Various reports and directories
Contents Note: Files include: annual report department of psychiatry and human behavior, 1996-1997; directory of science and engineering research; report of center for alcohol and addiction studies, 2002-2003; staff development day report, 1997.

 1991-2003
Box 33 Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Contents Note: Files include: review of operations; budget 1994-95, 1997-1998.

 1990-1998
Box 34 Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Contents Note: Files include: organizational assessment findings; income and expense budget (3 folders).

 1991-2001
Box 53 Memoranda to Council of Deans
Contents Note: 4 folders

 1990-1996
Box 56 Institutional Profile Annual Report
Contents Note: 2 folders

 1981-1987
Box 66 Space Program
Contents Note: 3 folders

 1963 November 04

Series II. Correspondence, 1996-2001

Container Description Date
Box 6 General correspondence
 2001 January-March
Box 6 General correspondence
 2001 April-June
Box 6 General correspondence
 2000 April-June
Box 6 General correspondence
 2000 January-March
Box 6 General correspondence
 2000 September-December
Box 6 General correspondence
 2000 July-August
Box 7 General correspondence
 1999 October-December
Box 7 General correspondence
 1999 June-December
Box 7 General correspondence
 1997 April-June
Box 7 General correspondence
 1997 March
Box 7 General correspondence
 1997 January-February
Box 12 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1996-1997
Box 8 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1998 October-December
Box 8 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1998 July-September
Box 8 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1998 April-June
Box 8 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1998 January-March
Box 8 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1999 April-June
Box 8 Donald J. Marsh correspondence
 1999 January-March

III. Additions, circa 1984-2007

Container Description Date
Box 60 AAMC booklets
Box 50 AAMC faculty salary surveys
 2000-2004
Box 41 AAMC memos
Box 43 AAMC nominations
 2003
Box 63 abbreviated meetings
Box 62 Administration search
Box 58 Advisor's handbook
 1993
Box 20 Affiliated hospitals
Box 59 Affiliation agreement
Box 59 Affiliation control meetings
Box 28 Affirmative action plan
 1998-1999
Box 59 Affliation discussions
Box 45 Agreements
Box 54 Annual report department of obstetrics and gynecology
 2001-2002
Box 22 Annual report of the biological undergraduate affairs office
 2003-2004
Box 36 Annual reports
 1989-1996
Box 47 Association agreements
Box 58 Audio proceedings of Harvard conference on American healthcare
Contents Note: 24 audiocassettes

 2000 November 1-3
Box 57 Bat situation
Box 31 Beverly Ledbetter.
Box 48 Binder containing medical education database
 1995-1996
Box 63 Biographical sketches
Box 49 Biology
Box 47 Biology roster
 1993-1994
Box 40 Biomed faculty council
Box 58 Biomed faculty council
Box 40 Biomed voting
Box 61 Blueprint working group
Box 63 Board of overseers
Box 54 Brown Med in the news
 2000-2001
Box 45 Brown-Bologna exchange
Box 20 Brown-Dartmouth program
Box 61 Brown-Tufts cancer center
Box 55 BSM general LCME faculty fellow
Box 43 BSM general.
Box 49 Budget
 2002-2003
Box 51 Budget
 2003-2005
Box 46 Budget and finance committee
Box 29 Budget and financial committee.
Box 35 Cabinet meetings.
Box 57 Cancer center
Box 61 Cancer center
Box 24 Capital equipment
Box 42 Care New England
Box 24 CCBA
Box 17 CCBA - Fran McCrossan
Box 63 CCBA 2001 meeting
Box 63 CCBA attendance
Box 46 CCBA conference.
Box 63 CCBA correspondence
Box 63 CCBA correspondence
Box 63 CCBA expenses
Box 63 CCBA expenses
Box 64 CCBA files
Contents Note: 2 compact discs
Box 63 CCBA materials
 2000
Box 64 CCBA meeting
Contents Note: 29 audiocassettes

 2001 April 6
Box 64 CCBA meeting
Contents Note: 8 audiocassettes

 2001 November 30
Box 63 CCBA member interest survey
Box 63 CCBA member list
Box 47 CCBA roster.
Box 63 CCBA survey
 2001
Box 51 CCME
Box 54 CCME presentation
 2007
Box 20 CEOs
Box 61 Champlin Foundation
Box 57 Chu, Dr. Edward
Box 64 Claris filemaker pro
Box 43 Clerkship summary
Box 49 Closing
Box 51 Closing
Box 25 Closing book
Box 63 Cluster review of physical and mathematical sciences
Box 57 CMFA
Box 61 Commencement
Box 63 Computational biology
Box 50 conflict of interest
Box 24 Conflict of interest policy
Box 24 Conflict of interest statements
Box 30 Conflict of interest: policies, hospitals, med schools.
Box 45 Constantine Gastonis
Box 49 Contingency
Box 45 Continuing medical education
Box 21 Corporation
Box 29 Corporation Committee on Medical Education
Box 40 Corporation weekend
Box 41 Corporation weekend
Box 41 Corporation/commencement.
Box 44 Cost allocations
Box 25 Cost allocations for RI Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Butler Hospital, and Women and Infants Hospital.
Box 17 Council of Clinical Chairs
Box 40 Council of Clinical Chairs
Box 49 Courses
Box 62 Curriculum
Box 64 Dean info
Box 17 Dean's council executive staff.
Box 39 Deferred maintenance.
Box 65 Department administrator
 1999
Box 30 Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Box 47 Department plans
Box 57 Departments: psychiatry.
Box 18 Directory of committees and councils
Box 17 Diversity Task Force
Box 23 DMBS search.
Box 63 DSM branch
Box 59 Economic and social impact of Massachusetts hospitals.
Box 59 Economic development project
Box 37 Economic impact.
Box 55 Emergency Medicine external review
Box 61 External review
Box 63 External reviews.
Box 63 Faculty dinners
Box 59 Faculty salaries
 1998-1999
Box 38 Faculty update
Box 39 Faculty update
 1987
Box 59 Feasibility study
Box 23 Financial statements
Box 37 Foundation-FPO agreement
Box 42 Francis McCrossan
Box 50 Francis McCrossan C01 forms.
Box 28 Graduate questionaire survey results
 1996
Box 60 Harvard LCME report
Box 35 Health department
Box 63 Healthcare symposium
Box 61 Howard Hughes medical Institute
Box 31 Hughes Medical Institute
Box 65 Human resources policies and practices
Box 61 IACUC
Box 35 Implementation plan
Box 59 IMS teaching hours
Box 31 International medical students
Box 52 IPS data reports
Contents Note: 5 booklets
Box 58 IS database
Box 61 Kellogg Foundation
Box 30 LCME accreditation report
Box 60 LCME books
Box 60 LCME clerkships
Box 61 LCME correspondence
Box 61 LCME data services
Box 60 LCME dean's office arrangements
Box 58 LCME education resources
Box 64 LCME files
Contents Note: 9 compact discs, 28 3.5" floppy disks
Box 58 LCME guidelines
Box 58 LCME med students
Box 35 LCME medical school questionnaire
Box 55 LCME questionnaire
Box 60 LCME questionnaire
Box 61 LCME questionnaires
 1990-1994
Box 60 LCME re-accreditation
Box 61 LCME re-accreditation post-review memos
Box 63 LCME re-accreditation survey
 1997
Box 60 LCME report
Box 63 LCME report due
 2000 September 1
Box 63 LCME report due
 2002
Box 60 LCME self-study
 1996-1997
Box 60 LCME student analysis
Box 62 Leases
Box 35 Lifespan
Box 42 Lifespan
Box 58 Lifespan information services council
Box 63 Lifespan: education and research foundation
Box 62 Lynn Epstein
Box 61 Marsh office
Box 21 Martin B. Keller
Box 43 MC3 department
Box 32 MD 2000
Box 60 Medical education database
Contents Note: 3 binders

 1995-1996
Box 62 Medical education database
 1984
Box 38 Medical school financial strategies.
Box 52 Memoranda to council of deans
Box 17 Minutes of affliated hospitals conference
Box 18 Minutes of affliated hospitals conference
Box 61 MSA national foundation
Box 46 New building plans
Box 59 NSF proposal
Box 35 Organizational change
Box 62 Overseers
Box 36 Overview of budget
Box 37 Overview of budget
 2001
Box 51 Pediatric surgery.
Box 64 Pediatrics review
Box 64 Petty cash
Box 61 Pfizer
Box 20 Phillip Lavori.
Box 41 Photographs
Box 28 Plan for academic enrichment
 2004
Box 58 Plan for academic enrichment
 2004
Box 32 PLME
Box 47 Policies and procedures
Box 18 Policy and guidelines for affliated hospitals.
Box 42 Presentation to CCBA.
Box 31 President's task force meeting
Box 47 Primary care
Box 52 Private medical school tuition and fees.
Box 45 Program in biology.
Box 58 Proposal from Jon Elion, MD
Box 54 Proposed Division of Emergency Medicine
Box 63 Psychiatry
Box 21 Red tape reduction.
Box 59 Renovations completed
Box 36 Reports on federal awards.
Box 65 Research Management Organization.
Box 63 Reviews general information
Box 62 Rhode Island Hospital
Box 65 RI Attorney General investigation into Lifespan/Care New England merger
Box 61 RIH medical foundation
Box 44 Roger Williams medical center.
Box 65 Ship Street move
Box 62 Spat's space
Box 40 State of the school address.
Box 23 Statements of operating activities
 1996-2001
Box 28 Statements of operating activities
Box 25 Strategic plan
 1996 May 20
Box 22 Strategic planning integration
Box 48 Strategic planning steering committee
Box 32 Student affairs
Box 48 Student affairs
Box 58 Student affairs policy handbook
 2003-2004
Box 43 Student financial aid LCME
Box 60 Subcommittee clinical science departments
Box 62 Surgery job description
Box 48 Task force meeting
Box 59 Terminations
Box 32 The Annual
 1999
Box 59 TMH plan
Box 48 Undergraduate medical education
Box 55 VHS cassette of Ruth Simmons interview on 60 Minutes.
Box 25 Vital signs
Box 58 Vital signs: statistical monograph
 1999
Box 61 Whitaker foundation
Box 32 Women in US academic medicine.
Box 64 3 audiocassettes
 2001 April 26
Box 64 6 compact discs