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Columbia pediatrician Hetty Cunningham appears in "The Color of Care," a new documentary about racial health disparities and their consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Members of the VP&S Class of 2025 met with Roy Vagelos, 1954 graduate of VP&S, whose success in medicine and business grew out of his Greek immigrant background in New Jersey.
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The COVID pandemic transformed students’ education but also imparted profound experiences that students say will make them stronger practitioners and leaders.
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A Columbia summer program for medical students is working to increase the number of psychiatrists from historically underrepresented groups.
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- April 11, 2018
VP&S announced today that it will launch a sweeping scholarship program in the coming academic year – several years ahead of schedule – that will make it the first medical school in the nation to replace student loans with scholarships for all students who qualify for financial aid.
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- April 3, 2018
Columbia medical student Caroline Park recounts her experiences playing on the Korean women’s ice hockey team at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in South Korea.
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- April 2, 2018
Student research topics ranged from machine learning to identify stroke patients to the effect of race & socioeconomic status on outcomes after pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
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- March 16, 2018
On Match Day, 156 students at VP&S learned which residency program they will attend for their medical training after graduation.
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- March 12, 2018
With her medical training still underway, MD-PhD student Holly Wobma launched a company with her colleagues to bring a stem cell therapy to market.
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- February 2, 2018
A Columbia medical student competing in this month's Olympics is just the most recent VP&S student or graduate to earn the title Olympian.
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- January 22, 2018
Members of the VP&S Class of 2020 participated in the Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician's Ceremony, marking the start of their patient-centered training in hospital and ambulatory settings.
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- January 2, 2018
The Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, chaired by Rita Charon, MD, PhD, is the newest department in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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- December 28, 2017
Medical education at P&S has passed through multiple eras of change during the school's 250 years, and a new era has begun with a scholarship campaign.
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- December 27, 2017
The students, who are also members of the P&S Musicians' Guild, created a program that combines their passion for music with patient care.
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