At the student-run Q Clinic, Columbia medical students provide free health care for underinsured LGBTQ+ people and prioritize developing personal relationships with each patient.
Rita Charon founded this influential program, which is now practiced widely in the United States and abroad, at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The VP&S Class of 2023 graduation ceremony on May 17 honored 140 students who received MD degrees and 77 students who received PhD degrees in biomedical sciences.
VP&S and Bassett Healthcare Network in Cooperstown, New York are working together to address the issue of access to improve the health of rural populations.
By Christina Hernandez Sherwood | Photographs by Jörg Meyer | Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
December 13, 2022
As part of a formal effort to reduce systemic racism in medical education, the VP&S community has come together to work through the Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education project.
Rosa Lee, MD, who led the implementation of a new mission-driven curriculum at the City University of New York School of Medicine, has been named senior associate dean for curricular affairs at VP&S.
A ceremony on May 18 honored 148 students who earned MD degrees from VP&S and 77 students who earned PhD degrees from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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.