The PLME is excited to welcome our newest cohort of students, PLME '28, MD'32! During orientation, first-year students will get to know the Brown community, meet their PLME advising deans and Meiklejohn peer advisors, and learn how to navigate the Open Curriculum as well as academic, co-curricular, and extracurricular opportunities. They can look forward to events such as the PLME ice cream social as well as PLME Wars, hosted annually by the PLME Senate, during which advising groups compete to win the “Golden Stethoscope.” 

This summer, some students are participating in opportunities available through the PLME’s Summer Research Assistantship (SRA), the Emerging Infectious Disease and HIV Scholars Program (H-EIDS), and Global Health Initiative (GHI). Others are taking advantage of the summer exchange programs at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan as well as the University of Tuebingen and University of Rostock in Germany. One of our juniors, Amie Barrow, competed in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and was the first woman to represent The Gambia in swimming!

The Program also welcomed Deirdre Fearon, MD, as our newest PLME Assistant Dean of Medicine. Through the years, Dean Fearon has served as an advisor and mentor to many PLME students. A beloved educator, she taught PLME0200 Primetime Bioethics, often touted by students as their favorite class at Brown, and teaches the popular Summer@Brown high school course Introduction to Medicine: Do You Want to Be a Doctor? In her new role, Dean Fearon will be serving as the primary instructor for PLME1000, our senior capstone course, as well as contributing to the PLME’s curriculum and co-curriculum. She will continue her clinical work as a pediatric emergency medicine specialist. She is also an associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.