Family Medicine

My name is Magdalena, and I am incredibly excited to be joining the Brown Family Medicine family. My family is from Poland, and I moved to the US, specifically Massachusetts, with my parents and brother when I was six years old. My extended family still lives in Poland, and I visit regularly. After finishing college, I worked at a medical respite for men experiencing homelessness in Washington, DC, and my experiences over those two years motivated me to pursue medicine, specifically primary care. I moved back to Massachusetts and completed a master’s in medical sciences at Boston University before staying on for medical school. The field of family medicine is doing important work in our current health care climate – focusing on disease prevention and reproductive justice, organizing care between specialists, thinking about patients’ barriers to care access and health management, filling workforce shortages in prenatal care and on labor and delivery floors, and thinking critically about racism and bias in medicine. I could not be more excited to be a part of this work as a family medicine physician.

I chose the Brown University/Kent Hospital program for its dedication to high quality, full-spectrum training across all clinical settings. There is wonderful opportunity here for mentorship and involvement in medical education. It was also important to me that the program meets patients where they are, and takes serious consideration of the social, economic, and psychological factors that impact health.

In my free time, you can find me going for long walks, attempting new recipes (with varying success), reading books, exercising, and cheering on my brother as he competes for the Canadian national rowing team!