Medical Schools

HANOVER, N.H.--Admissions officials at Dartmouth Medical School have begun to process applications for the new Brown-Dartmouth Program in Medical Education.

The 20 students selected for the joint program will spend their first two years studying the basic medical sciences at Dartmouth and then will attend Brown University for two years of clinical training.

Both Dartmouth and Brown also will offer regular four-year M.D. programs. The Brown University corporation and the Dartmouth College trustees approved the joint venture last year.

Don Penfield, associate dean of the Dartmouth Medical School, said the cooperative program will allow each school to concentrate its resources on one area of a medical school education and reduce overall costs.