Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 77: December, 1976 How has it affected the University, academically and financially? The good news is that the benefits anticipated when it was decided to launch the MD. -granting pro gram are increasingly being realized; that through its affiliation with a number of hospitals the medical pro gram already has had a profound impact on the quality of patient care in Rhode Island; that it is greatly ex panding the opportunities for Rhode Islanders to ob tain a medical education; that it is significantly con tributing to the enhancement of Brown's academic pursuits and prestige; and that, contrary to fear widely expressed in the debate which preceded the landmark decision, the medical program is operating in the black and has not become an excessive drain on the Univer sity's general funds. When it voted in March 1972 to extend the medical education program to award the MD. Degree, the Brown Corporation made the decision subject to these conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.