USMLE & COMLEX Tutor in Rhode Island

Rhode Island's only medical school is the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, private and MD-granting (school list). LCME shows it accredited since 1963, with its next full survey due in 2028-29 (LCME).

Brown had 9,186 applications for 144 first-year places in 2025-26, and 10.4% of its entering class came from Rhode Island (AAMC FACTS). The CMS list counts eight teaching hospitals: five in Providence, including Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Butler Hospital, and one each in Pawtucket, Warwick and Woonsocket (CMS teaching hospital list).

Medical schools in Rhode Island

School list: LCME and COCA accreditation lists, via the list of medical schools in the United States, checked October 2026.

Teaching hospitals in Rhode Island by city

• Providence: Roger Williams Medical Center; Rhode Island Hospital; Women & Infants Hospital; The Miriam Hospital; Butler Hospital
• Pawtucket: Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
• Warwick: Kent County Memorial Hospital
• Woonsocket: Landmark Medical Center

Facts about Rhode Island

Accreditation: LCME directory; applications, places and in-state share: AAMC FACTS, Table A-1.

ABIM internal medicine certification exam by residency program: ABIM residency program pass rates; ABIM says to read rates from under 25 takers with caution.

• Brown students must complete at least 80 weeks of clinical training in Years 3 and 4, 68 of them at the Warren Alpert Medical School, including 44 weeks of core clerkships. (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University)
• Brown's core clerkships are internal medicine (12 weeks), clinical neurosciences (8 weeks, four of psychiatry and four of neurology), and surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and family medicine (6 weeks each). (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University)
• Brown asks for at least 36 weeks of clinical electives, 24 of them at Brown, including a 4-week sub-internship and 6 weeks of surgical electives. (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University)
• Brown's Years 1 and 2 are four semesters of Integrated Medical Sciences and Doctoring, and nearly 90 percent of its students take part in clinical or basic science research. (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University)
• About 50 students a year enroll in Brown's Program in Liberal Medical Education, the Ivy League's only combined baccalaureate-MD program. (Brown University)
• Brown's Early Identification Program offers provisional admission to Rhode Island residents at Providence College, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island. (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University)
• In the 2025 Main Residency Match, programs in Rhode Island offered 255 residency positions in 18 specialties, the most in internal medicine (100), anesthesiology (28), and emergency medicine (22). (NRMP)

Sources: LCME, directory of accredited U.S. programs (checked October 29, 2026); AAMC FACTS, Table A-1, 2025-2026 (checked October 29, 2026); Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Clerkship and Post-Clerkship (checked November 1, 2026); Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Curriculum (checked November 1, 2026); Brown University, Program in Liberal Medical Education, Admission (checked November 1, 2026); Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Routes of Admission (checked November 1, 2026); NRMP, 2025 Main Residency Match by state and specialty (checked October 29, 2026); ABIM, residency program pass rates 2023-2025 (checked October 29, 2026).

Brown's clerkship year, week by week

Brown asks for at least 80 weeks of clinical training across Years 3 and 4, 68 of them at the Warren Alpert Medical School, and 44 of those weeks are core clerkships (Brown clerkships). The longest is internal medicine at 12 weeks. Clinical neurosciences runs 8 weeks, four of psychiatry and four of neurology, and surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and family medicine take 6 weeks each.

Those lengths change how a shelf is studied. A 12-week medicine block leaves room for a full pass through a question bank plus a practice exam; a 6-week surgery or pediatrics block does not, so we start those questions in week one and keep the daily number steady instead of saving them for the last weekend. The combined psychiatry-neurology block is two shelf subjects in eight weeks, so we split each week between them from the start.

After the core year come at least 36 weeks of clinical electives, 24 of them at Brown, including a 4-week sub-internship and 6 weeks of surgical electives (Brown clerkships). If Step 2 CK falls in this stretch, we plan its dedicated weeks around the sub-internship rather than on top of it.

Before the clerkships: IMS, Doctoring and Step 1

Brown's Years 1 and 2 are four semesters of Integrated Medical Sciences and Doctoring. Year 1 starts with cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, genetics and introductory pharmacology alongside anatomy, then brain sciences, musculoskeletal medicine and a course joining microbiology to infectious disease; Year 2 runs through the cardiovascular, renal, pulmonary, endocrine, reproductive, hematology and gastroenterology systems (Brown curriculum).

Because microbiology is taught as one block at the end of Year 1, it is often the subject Brown students have least recently seen when Step 1 arrives. We schedule spaced microbiology review through Year 2 rather than relearning it in the dedicated period. Nearly 90 percent of Brown students also take part in clinical or basic science research (Brown curriculum), so we plan Step 1 weeks around any research commitments early.

Who studies medicine at Brown, and where they train afterwards

Brown admits through several routes. AMCAS is the largest; the second-largest cohort comes through the Program in Liberal Medical Education, the eight-year baccalaureate-MD program that about 50 students a year enroll in (Brown routes of admission; PLME). The Early Identification Program offers provisional admission to Rhode Island residents at Providence College, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island (Brown routes of admission).

Whichever route a student came by, we start with a timed diagnostic early in Year 2, so the exam's format and pace are familiar well before the dedicated period.

For residency, Rhode Island programs offered 255 positions in 18 specialties in the 2025 Main Residency Match, most of them in internal medicine (100), anesthesiology (28) and emergency medicine (22) (NRMP). Residents who stay sit Step 3 under Rhode Island's three-attempt rule, which is why we plan Step 3 for one sitting.

Which board exams Rhode Island students take

A Brown MD points to the USMLE. Step 1 has been reported pass/fail since January 26, 2022, Step 2 CK comes next, and Step 3 follows after graduation (USMLE).

Rhode Island's school list has no DO school (school list). Osteopathic students who train in its hospitals come from out of state and take COMLEX-USA (NBOME).

Rhode Island's internal medicine residents later face ABIM's exam. In 2023-2025, 86% of the 118 first-time takers from the Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University Health program in Providence passed (ABIM). In Woonsocket, 85% of the 20 first-time takers from the New York Medical College/Landmark Medical Center program passed, a count under 25 that ABIM says to read with caution (ABIM).

Rhode Island licensing rules that affect your exam plan

Rhode Island's entry lists the two series separately: three attempts at each USMLE Step and three at each COMLEX Level, with no time limit (FSMB). Training before a first license is 2 years, the same for international graduates (FSMB).

Source: FSMB state licensure requirements, checked October 2026; confirm with the board before relying on them.

What Rhode Island's rules mean for how you study

• Rhode Island stops at three attempts per USMLE Step, one short of the four the USMLE program allows (FSMB, USMLE eligibility rules). Do not count on a fourth sitting for a Rhode Island license.
• Rhode Island lists no time limit, so a research year or leave of absence starts no clock here (FSMB).
• FSMB lists 2 years of training before a first Rhode Island license and the same 2 years for international graduates, so an IMG plans on the same timeline as a US graduate (FSMB).

Many Rhode Island students rotate, interview or match next door. Rhode Island's neighbors on our list: Connecticut (3 MD, 0 DO), Massachusetts (4 MD, 0 DO).

How much Rhode Island searches for board prep

Out of 51 (the 50 states plus DC), Rhode Island ranks 11th for “Shelf exam”, 25th for “USMLE Step 2” and 27th for “USMLE”, while “USMLE Step 1” and “COMLEX” tie at 35th (Google Trends, October 2021 to October 2026). Searches tied to the clinical years outrank the Step 1 search, in a state with one MD school and no DO school.

Source: Google Trends, United States, past 5 years, retrieved October 2026; ranks show relative interest, not student numbers.