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Healthcare Partner Institutions
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Hasbro Children's Hospital (Providence) (Residency Program)
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Hasbro Children's Hospital at Rhode Island Hospital (Providence)
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Warren Alpert Brown University School of Medicine (Providence)
Legal Partner Institutions
- Rhode Island Center for Law and Public Policy (Warwick)
- Roger Williams University School of Law (Bristol)
Partnership News
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Liz Tobin Tyler, our Director of Public Service and Community Partnerships, is taking the lead in developing a distinctive collaboration between RWU Law and Brown Medical School. The “Medical-Legal Collaborative” involves faculty from both institutions, team-teaching students from both institutions, how to provide holistic help to poor individuals and families, on the view that many poor people’s health problems are exacerbated, if not caused, by living in poverty...
Partnership Patient-Cient Stories
Three year old Refnely kept getting sick. In one winter alone, she was taken to the emergency room three times for pneumonia, and she was losing weight and developing rashes...
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Partnership Resources
February 18, 2009 - 2:06am (Updated: February 18, 2009 - 2:07am)
Article discusses teaching future doctors and lawyers to work together and uses the joint medical and law school course offered to Roger Williams School of Law and Brown Medical School students as an example.
Allies not Adversaries. Teaching Collaboration to the Next Generation of Doctors and Lawyers to Address Social Inequality. Journal of Health Care Law & Policy. September 2008; 11: 249-294. Elizabeth Tobin Tyler.
February 27, 2009 - 8:42pm
Presentation developed by the Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership for Children to train providers on how to recognize the connection between housing and health and advocate for their patients.
February 27, 2009 - 9:01pm (Updated: January 6, 2010 - 11:23am)
Roger Williams University School of Law in conjunction with Brown Medical School offers a joint course for medical and law students, "Poverty, Health and Law: the Medical-Legal Collaborative".
February 27, 2009 - 8:48pm
Presentation developed by the Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership for Children to train providers on how to recognize the connection between utility access and health and advocate for their patients.
